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Show Ing one descent at Huntington Bay.' Mo will be allowed twelve hours to complete the flight. Clifford B Harrnan, the New York amateur, and Harry S. Harkness, a wealthy Callfornlan and a pupil of Latham, aro mentioned as candidates for the cup. GOLD TROPHY FOR . AMATEUR FLIGHT: i ' ; Hempstead, S. Y. May 23.-Wonl-1 thy residents of Huntington Bay, L. I.. havo raised a fund for a gold trophy which Is to he offered to the first am- j atenr aeroplane pilot who flies fr.m Mlneohi across Long Island to the : shores of Connecticut. ) The distance Is thirty miles fourteen four-teen miles across country to tho shore of the sound Bnd slxteeu miles across the waters of the pound. This makOK the actual flight acms the sound be-tweivi be-tweivi Long Island and the mainland ! comparable to the flight over the Eng- . Huh channel. J. I'nder the rules being devised, the ( aviator will havj the prlvilt-go of niak- |