Show a. a ii u LJ cI c J IJ LJ LJ i r. r Py 4 t il L r r RACING r ot r I r o 1 AT AI ATA AIB B E A a LEAVE A V A F h Pilots ts LeaVe Leave Leav e v J i- ioas oas it Hoping irig gr tp to VY Win n Honors Honor s Fr From Their Atlantic Rival Rivals S cAN FRANCISCO Oct 8 SAN a. a Fourteen airplanes left Sa San n Francisco at dawn awn today a as S participants in a mile 2700 ai air r voyage to 1 Mineola la N. N Y an anthen and d then a like distance on a return tri triOne trip One machine failed t oget away wit with h the others but was expected to take tak e the air in less than two hours after r the fourteen had departed A sixteenth entry a captured German Fokker was wa s to leave if it its pilot Lieutenant F. F W. W Yo Seifert arrived here before night wit with h his plane from San Diego The first machine left the Presidio o army aviation field at o'clock Fourteen had left before nine minutes minute s had elapsed Two left on the field d were and one of them hem cleared cleare d at BUSY NIGHT All An night long mechanics gave las last t touches to the machines and guarded guarde d td them In preparation for the flight Throughout the night the field was wa s I ablaze with light as the mechanics mechanic sI worked and the otherwise stillness a athe of f I the hours before dawn was broken broken-b by Y engines being given a final i tuning As the h dawn started to break the noise from the hex exhausts of engines became unbroken The Western aviators will attempt t to beat sixty fellow fliers who were e starting today from the Eastern ter ter- minus The Westerners it was conceded conceded conceded con con- ceded ha have e their greatest test at th the beginning of the great race Almost Almos t I Immediately they will be compelled to j climb high and t their eer b first e day will find them sailing n C over the high Sierras of California and Nevada and th the e Wasatch mountains in n Utah Unbroken country will be far below them where landing are ahva always s 's precarious precarious precarious pre pre- carious and often f fatal tal The Easterners Easterners East East- erners will have this test of mountains mountaIns mountains moun moun- late in their journey although the winner is expected to make the 2700 miles' miles transcontinental trip in inless inless I less than twenty-four twenty flying hours I THE START STAR I Lottery decided the manner in I which the machines were to start The first machine was in the center of the field The second was wag on his left and the third third upon his right tIght and so on A second row with the same placing of starters completed the entries Only one machine was an all American plane the plano the LaPere piloted by Cadet A A. J. J Two were famous captured from the Germans by the Americans In the St St. Mihiel l sector practically Intact Others were De and Sop Sop- I |