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Show CURTISS AY ILL RACE BIPLANE WITH AUTO FRESNO. Cal.. Fob. 1. In an official demonstration of the claim of Glenn H. Curtlss that his biplane can bo operated successfully without tho Wright patents, Charles K. Hamilton made two lllghts .here today In a Curtlss machine with the vortical rudder of the plane sealed. The records of the flight will be forwarded for-warded to New York to be produced In the Now York circuit court of appeals, at the hearing of the appeal from the preliminary pre-liminary Injunction recently granted the Wright brothers, which prohibited the manufacture, sale and use of tho Curtlss aeroplane. Hamilton will race around a thrco-mlle course tomorrow against an automobile for a 5500 bet. |