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Show AEROPLANE Aviator Offers to Bet I He Can Bag Antelope From His Machine San Francisco, Dec. 2. Hubert Latham, La-tham, tho French aviator, who has arrived to participate In tie meet to tw? held here next monetb, offers to wager $5.M"iO that he can bag an antelope an-telope frmn his monoplane. The Idea of hunting game with a flying machine came to him In Baltimore, Bal-timore, Latham explained last ulght While there he says that several times he fired a revolver at a target whllo coursing through the air. Although Al-though he failed to hit, the notion occurred to him that he might ho able to kill a deer or antelope with a rifle. Now that he is in the west, Latham La-tham says he Is anxious to test his thoory. The only condition he would stipulate In regard to his proposed wager Is that he have an open place In which to hunt and be within a reasonable rea-sonable distance of a railroad. |