Show I Their Balloon Stalled Hours in Sky N a- a aM M T V 4 hf y w N I V V 9 Caught in becalmed skies Pilot 1 JS Vanik Yanik right and anu Arthur Fairbanks Fairbanks left His nis assistant hung for three hours at an altitude of feet before they could land at Akron Colo Cob to vin second place in the national balloon races a Aeronaut Rides Air Ail Miles Believed National Race Winner DENVER July 6 AP Landing AP-Landing Landing his new Goodyear balloon from rom Akron Ohio near Presho S. S D. D Frank Prank Trotter veteran adventurer adventurer adventurer ad ad- in than lighter craft apparently was the victor today in n the national balloon race Trotter was the only one of the five ive entrants which took off oft here Friday night to find good fortune fortunen in n the variable winds which kept the he others others' from getting out of Colo- Colo rado ado Presho is about miles by airline northeast of Denver Bag Explodes Second place apparently was won by y the Great Lakes exposition balloon baloon bal bal- loon oon from Cleveland third and fourth by the United States navy bags and fifth by the United States army balloon which exploded and burned in landing 37 31 miles southeast southeast south- south east ast of Denver Saturday Winners of the first three places in n the race have the right to enter the he James Gordon Bennett international international international inter inter- national race at Warsaw Poland August 30 V The Cleveland entry piloted by Milford S. S Vanik landed near Arkon Ark- Ark ron on Colo Cob miles east of here The two navy bags bass piloted by Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu- Lieu tenant Commander Francis H. H GUmer Gilmer Gil- Gil mer and nd Lieutenant R. R F. F Tyler came down within nine miles mUes of other near 50 miles southeast of the starting point Escape Injury Neither Captain Haynie McCormick mick pilot nor his aide Captain John A. A Tarro was injured when their heir balloon burned in a grove of pine trees near Elizabeth Colo Cob Two contestants blamed capricious capricious capricious capri capri- cious winds and not the mile-high mile altitude for the failure of their inch cubic bags to get farther from Denver Racing planes were dismantled for shipment home at the municipal airport with Arthur C. C Chester of Glenview Ill DI carrying away the title of the best speed pilot of a two- two day air show V Two vict victories ries in two days over a 50 mile 50 mile route around the triangular course won for Chester a trophy awarded by Dr J. J D. D Brock flying physician of Kansas Cit City |