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Show SEVEN ENTRIES IN BIG BALLOON RACE Moro Aro Expected to Go Aloft; from Kansas City July 10; Work Bognn on Field. KANSAS CITY. June 28. Seven balloons bal-loons are now entered in the national balloon race, which starts from here July 10, and four more entrants are expected by the time the entry book closes. July 3. The names of the entered balloons and their pilots, follow: Miss Sophia. W. T. Assmann. St. Louis: St. Louis IV., Lieutenant Lieu-tenant E. P. Lahm, St. Louis; Million Population club. Captain John Barry, St. Louis; Buckeye, J. H. Wade. Jr., Cleveland; Cleve-land; New York, Clifford P. Harmon, New York, and Topcka No. 2, F. W. Jacobs, Topeka, Kan. Clubs in Dayton. O.. Philadelphia and Cincinnati have written that It Is prob-ablo prob-ablo they will enter representatives. At least half a dozen baliooutst3, including J. Holland Forbes, are considering Hying. Work was begun today on leveling tho Held from which the balloons will start, Sixteen thousand feet of slxteen-inch gas main will bo laid |