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Show AVIATORS FACE BAB WEATHER ON SECOND LAP CHICAGO, Oct. 25. Aviators on Ihe second lap of the twice transconriuen- T tal arm; airplane endurauce and rell.i ( bilitv race again todty faced bad fly- j- ! ing conditions and little more flving l than yesterday when one flier made 112 miles before the weather forced H him down, was in prospect. The rjm- if H I ber of racers attempting to complete b "Ihl1 mile course today was -aised to seven when I was announced that Lit nienant W. C. B. Brow n planned to j take the air in a new machine from Bat ramento, bis original entry having i been wrecked near Reno, Nev. k H Lieutenant R M Baghy. flying cast, today was the only pilot nearer his t) H home ban -n than at dawn yesterda L H He progressed from Sidney, Neb., to L H .North Platte. Neb., yesterday despite the adverse flying conditions. He was K H 1491 miles from bis journey's end 1 H when b landed tor overnight. Tied up two days at Chicago becaUSfl Of engine trouble. Lieutenant 11. W. I Sheridan today planned to traverse the 810 miles to his starting point at Mineola, N v The other fliers still in the contest were strung out over H the western halt of the continent, Captain Cap-tain P St.elnle having covered only 356 miles from San Francisco, western terminus, since Wednesday. |