Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-11 | Page 3 | France Lacks Racing Funds

FRANCE LACKS RACING FUNDS James Cordon Gordo l Bennett Cup Balloon Race Has No French Entries PARIS PARtS UP Balloon UP-Balloon Balloon enthusiasts are alarmed at t the pr prospect of Frances France's absence for tItle Uie first time on the continent ir from orn rn the James Gordon Gordon Gor Gor- don Bennett cup cup race Its It's not that the cup has lost Us Its to French eyes Frenchmen do not forget that the first balloon to ascend systematically and gyrate in the upper air until the hot smoke with which it was filled cooled off was French This gr of Zeppelins and stratosphere explorers moreover was covered kaleidoscopically with wallpaper wallpaper wall wall- paper also a French invention as any American who has lived in in an ordinary Gallic hotel or rooming rooming room room- ing house The James Gordon Bennett classic itself was born in Paris in 1906 and was won that year by an American Only one of the races Stuttgart 1912 was won by a Frenchman M. M Bienaime Bienaime Bie Bie- naime and this year there are no prospective French entries because it is said there is no money with which to buy balloons However that may be the race is isto isto isto to start September 22 from Warsaw the first race of the fourth cup Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago 1933 having been won by Captain Cap Cap- tam tain Francis of Poland The original cup was the longest disputed It Ii was not won definitely until 1924 when the Belgian Demuyt t r took the race for the third consecutive consecutive con con- time in its 13 years of existence exist exist- ence