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Show PREPAHINGFQl AVIATION MEI Practice Flights Arc MadeS day by lioxsey, Hadlcyll and White. M OTHER AVIATORS MAKE W SHORT TRIAL FLlfil Many Contestants Have m Than One Machine; DctaS of Meet. ' $m 4B NEW YORK. Oct. 21 Threo of different types, manned by S of two competing nationalities buSl air at the same time late onlav inlH lice for flights for tho internjBl aviation meet, which will open iuBl o'clock tomorrow at Belmont nirlwM track, under the auspices of tta-Bl oration Aeronautlque InlernatlonalsBl resented In this countrv by th.jBi Club of America. They were Arch'JH soy. In a new model Wright bltfll without front control; James rflfl (Great Britain). In a fifty-horwM Blerlot monoplane, and Claude GniBl White (Great Britain), in a I'Vm2H Other aviators who also madeB trial flights were Ralph Johnslono'fM Wright team and Anthony .1. DrcisBl American who at ono time bold tlBl tudc record, in a Blcriol. Just sjgH stone clinic down in the ga trior ngnM ness. John J. Frlsble of Rochester! only recently qualified as r lCBJ aviator, settled on the field as Jiglitfl a moth- He had flown aciocs tho cB try from his quarters at Mlneola'aM lance of six miles. BJ "Important E7cnt Tho first important event win 'btfll 100 kilometers race for the Gordon net International aviation cup, 'fl carries with it a cash prize of isotBJ The cup was won the firat tinH Glenn 11. Curliss, al Rbelms, I'rancl gust 2S. 1000. The distance wassM only twenty kilometers, and CuriB time was 10 minutes. 00 3-0 Cefl Louis Bleriot was second, in 15 nifoB OS 1-5 seconds. His now model plane, which holds the world's piS altitude, across country dlstajicejM spued record, will be the most formjB competitor for tho cup Ibis year. JflJ The two other most coveted priitfl those offered by Thomas F. HyaH a flight from tho a ialion field tH around tho Statue of Liberty IslBJ York harbor, and return. J 1 0.000: aB the Aero Club of America. JOtWO fBl altitude or 1't.OPO feet or bettor,N will be added to tho regular priiBJ 51000 for a new world s allllude rjfl The present altitude record is 91MBB made, at Moiirinclon. Franco, by. AB Wynmalen. He floes not coinpcto(BB meet hero. $B Daily Competition?, ffl In addition to these special iniH system has boon formulated by kBJ thero will bo daily competitions aflj hour each for altitude and distaiicoJjBJ a third dally prize for diy-;itiarvBl on tho total time each aviator haa.M in the air each day for tho tH events in which he has coinpeledL-JB Theso averages will all lift liunpB the end of the "meet to determine ABJ for division of profit. ' yBJ In all, $02,300 is offered in cash gfl ; and the aviators will sbaro accordlBfl rank 70 icr cent of the first M1BI profits and to pr cent of every-HBB or fraetlon thereof additional BJ |