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Show LIEUTENANT IS FLYING AT TWO miles mm. CHICAGO, Oct. 9. Flying in the remarkable re-markable time of approximately two miles a minute, First Lieutenant B. W Maynard yesterday led the westbou.nl trans-continental flyers much of the way trom Mlneola to Chicago, and was the onlj one to reach here. It was the first New "York-Chicago aerial journey made between sunrise and sunset. Driving a de Haviland -4 machine with a passenger and a German police dog aboard, tho lieutenant, who recent re-cent ly won the Tornado-New York race, covered tho distance of $10 mi! B in approxiamtel six hours and 45 minutes min-utes of actual flying time, or about ft hours. 29 minutes of elapsed time. He left Mlneola at 9:24 a. m. eastern time, and reached Chicago at 5:53 p. m. central cen-tral time. Lieut. Maynard remained a4t Ashburn Vf)i laal night and was scheduled to I depart at 7 a m. today on the next leg of the cross-country tup, to Rock ! Island, 111., a distance of 155 miles. I Lieut Maynard, a Baptist minister, who was in Ihe American overseas flying fly-ing service, piloted machine No. .".1 and was the first of the forty-seven tly-ers tly-ers who started from Mineola to reach; Buffalo and remained in tbe van :he remainder of the day. His nearest competitor was Major Henry J. ler, who with Captain A. E. Simon flew a de Haviland-4, machine No 27, to Bryan, Ohio, where they remained over night. At Rochester, N. Y., Lieut. Maynard got the last glimpse of another con- i Itestant. There he saw Lieut Col H.I E Hartney, an American ace, w.ih machine No. 11. The lieutenant said his best time was made on his last leg, the 160 J miles between dryan, Ohio, and Chicago, Chi-cago, which was covered in one hour and 13 minutes. "When Buffalo was reached at 12:ni p. m.. Lieut. Maynard led the field, and continued to do so. He reached Cleveland at 12:27 p nv, departed at 2:58 for Bryan, arriving ihere at 4:10, and bjft lor Chicago at 4 40:03. "I expect to be in San Francisco by sundown Friday' he said, hopefully, as he settled down lo impend the nisht at Ashburn Field, where cots had been arranged for the flyers. |