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Show WHY YANKS LOST GREAT 1 RACE French Feared Schroeder But Machine Was Not Properly Prop-erly Tested (By NOWten C. Parke, International News Service Staff Correspondent.) PARIS. Oct. 10. (Correspondence or Associated Press.) Much regrc ".as expressed at K'ampes during Iho airplane race for the Gordon Bonnet cup at the failure of the Amer.can chines to adequately compete with IbC French Nieuporis and Spad pilot , 'd by Sadl IOconlte, the winner of the race. George- Kirsch. who abandoned Ibe rac after going twice round Ibe truck anil Bernard de Rom.me wIm aftei- repairing a leaking oil pipe, r-Started r-Started and finished second. YANKEES CRITICIZED The Americans were much Crll clsed for not having properly tcsto out their machines before the ract The Dayton Wright Dlonoplghe was' the only machine to have been over i ihe course piloted by Howard Rine-hart. Rine-hart. Sadl Lecouile on the eve of ihe race told an International News Sen-1 if e i orrespon.lent tha'. he only feared Captain Schroea r'.- Yerville-Packard In i he race He had watched the a."u horsepower engine being tested end considered that Schroeder would win ihe race At the L-.inie tiijr, howev -i. he remarked on the danger of fire from such a powerful engine, for oven 1 d'jrhig th tcirtin hdge flames leaped; out of ihe exhaust pipe1 i tthe- Frenchmen French-men believed the Dayton Wright the! ; better of the iwo machines, bui I thought lhal Rmehari would be se-j Hourly handicapped in not having a' clear frontal view of whore hi wr.s The machine was considered fast enough and the create-t interest wat iroused in the ability to pull in ihe landing wheels und U vol out the two wingn. MAKES 'EM CASP. A shout of excitement went up from the French when the Dayton Wright took the air and the speed at which it crossed the sfurting line was much commented on When a few ffllftUtOI later the spectators saw five men w I down on the propeller and start the army machine a rush was made for the nearest point of vantace, and as Schroeder tore down the field with his englnr- full ou everyone gasped and felt sure the cup would once again go to the states. Some twenty minutes lateT both machines had lauded Rlne-harl Rlne-harl with a faulty control and Schroeder Schroe-der DOCatiM of the names again com lng out of his exhaust and threatening to catch the woodworl: alight The French champion, who had completed the cOurse. seemed worried w hen lie ' witnessed the start oi the American ', machines, foj he firmly believed that j Schroeder could go faster than he in a conversation u few minutes later ho1 said he thought the trouble lay in the fact that no preliminary 'ests were m:tu with the Vei ville-Packard. He himself bad tested and tried his m'ti Ohtne for some twelve days previously, previous-ly, as did also Klrsch. who noverih less was unable to finish the course, hrs engine misfiring. The only British machine left in the ruce suffered with the same faulty en- ) ginc trouble. Even before it left the ground bis engine was missing and it took him twenty five minutes to cover the luO kilometer. which Sadl Leconite had covered in twenty one and a half minutes It li rumored that another cup is to be given for an International speed race next year, and it is hoped in air circles here that American machines will compete aUd have belter luck. 1 oo |