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Show MONOPLANE Oil BIPLANE Merits of the Two Aachines Is as Yet an Undecided Problem New York, Nov. 1. The question of ' suriorlty between the biplane and I the monoplane, wloch the prcmoters I of the lielmont Park lintriiatioii tl meet hoped to settle In the series of contests between the best Illers of three countries is still mi open one, according to th. Aero Club officials. The Lilerlut mom planes, thanks to the work of Molssant. the American, and Urah ime-White, The Englishman. tok a majority of the prlz money, but the world's alt. t tide records and a goodly chare of the other honors went m t!io Wright biplanes in the skillful bands cf Johnstone. Hoxsey ami l'.ro.'.ks. Wilbur Wrl.:ht expresses htmself os sa'isflid with the showing of the biplanes. I "Everyone talked monoplane lwfore the nuet began." he said, "but I think we have demonstrated that the M-plnne M-plnne which got the duration ami alt!- , tude prizes. wa.s the machine that hud I bv far the best control. The backward . llkhts of HoHxsey and Johnstone in a fifty-mile rale and the sharp turns of Hoey and r.pookins several thousand thou-sand frc( in the air showed control. "And the biplane woubl have had the prlr..' for spe.-d but for P.rookins' unfortunate accident. We had tin fastest machine. By our actual tests, it was at least live miles factor than l.e Wane's. The tdouble was that Hroehlns Is not experienced enough In its tine. We will soon prove by of-llclal of-llclal tests at Dayton that the machine he broke on the day of the race for the .lame.? Cordon Itennctt trophy will make at leaM eighty miles an hour. We shall be ready to seek the cup next year with a machine capalde of probably twenty miles more than that." It been me known today that the Wrights anil the French team came near extending the meet a day or tw-o on their own account. M. Portal, for the French team, sent one of hla men over to the Wright hangar late yesterday yes-terday Ttlth a challenge to a race between be-tween a fifty-horse power Hlerlot anil a thirty-horse power Wright. Wilbur scribbled his answer a. quick as a flash: "We will accept that and race you i tomorrow." Hut an hour later, M. Boreal sent word that his men had declined after I nil |
