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Show BINES IS jeadiiigjil circOij race Frenchman Flies 343 Miles in Less Than Six Hours. EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 84. J. Vedrinea, the French aviator, ia a Mor-ane-Borel monoplane, maintains tha lead in the circuit of Oreat Britain aviation race for tbe Daily Mail prise. He covered cov-ered the distance of 343 miles from Hendon to Edinburgh this morning ia lee. than six hours, actual flight time. Beaumont followed Vedrinea closely. Weymann, still experiencing bad lurk, waa held up at Hendon, awaiting the arrival of a new propeller. It waa noon Wore Weymann had equipped his machine with a new propeller. pro-peller. Then he started on a trial flight in a fickle wind. His biplsns bucked like a broncho, but he made s aafe landing. Later word was received here that the American had again headed head-ed for thia city, going with tha speed of a pigeon. Starts Wrong Mao First. A greet crowd assembled at the aerodrome aero-drome at Hendon at 4 o'clock this morning to witness the getsway on the second stsgs from Hendon to Edinburgh, Edin-burgh, with intermediate stops at Harrogate Har-rogate aad Newcastle. Through a mistake mis-take of the timekeeper, Beaumont, who should have atarted second, got swsv first. Vedrinee, sfter a few excited ex-cited gestures, sailed away a few seconds sec-onds later. Thousand, witnessed a splendid spectacle as tbe two airmen sped across the aerodrome at such a pace that thev were soon lost to eight. Beaumont, who was flying higher, waa quickly overtsken and when Harrogate, Harro-gate, eighty-two miles from Hendon, was reached. Vedrinee had gained another an-other few minutes. This wss repeated in the stsges from Harrogate to New eaatle, forty-eight milee, and from Newcastle New-castle to Edinburgh, ninety three miles. Engllshman Wins Piixs. Valentine, the Englishman, who ia making a bid for the prize against the Frenchman, wss third to srrivs at Harrogate. Har-rogate. He won the prise of silver plats offered for the first Englishman to complete this stage. He was delayed de-layed for sa hour st Harrogate aad made a slow trip to Newcastle, having by mi.take landed outside tha town instead in-stead of Oosforth park, tha official landing place Captain Cody also reached Harrogate. Of the thirteen other, who completed the first stage from Brook lands to Hendon Hen-don on Saturday, ('. C. Patterson, ia a "baby" Orahame-White biplane, and Lieutenant Beynolds retired. Andemars withdrew sfter making three falsa starts at Hendon aud the rest either failed to get away or descended before making Harrogate. C. H. Pixton came down three miles south of Harrogate and amaahed hia machine, which probably prob-ably haa put him out of the race. The others met with minor accidents, but will continue. The official times between Hendon and Harrogats sre: Vedriaes, 3 hour. 3 miautes 4 seconds: Besumont, 3 hours 7 minutes 54 seconds; Valentine, 3 hours 39 minutes 8 seconds. |