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Show JOHNSTONE BREAKS WORLD'S RECORD 000000000000000 o o O NEW YORK. Oct 31. A O O "baby" Wright roadster, with O O Ralph Johnstone at the wheel, O O glided gracefully to earth in the- O O twilight at the close of the inter- O O national axlatiuii meet at He!- O O mont Park ibis evening with the O O barograph rciMeilng a new O O world's r cord for altitude. O O The little machine of only . O O horse power had t n up 'J,71l O O feet, exceeding by .".2S feet the O O height attained in France Oct 1 O O by Henry W. Wynuenialeii of O O Holland. ' O O O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Johnstone's sky 1 limbing feat was not the only notable incident of the clo-dng day of the meet Claude Gra-hame-Whlte the British aviator, who curries away the Gordon Bennett trophy, tro-phy, which takes the next International Interna-tional tournament to F.ngland, sharpened sharp-ened the sporting appetite with a challenge to John B. .Molssant of Chl-iago Chl-iago for' another race from the park around the Statue of Llbertv and return, M..lsanl, who won Jin.noo f..r his fiixt flight around the statue yesterday, yes-terday, ignored the challenge. Then Grahame-Whlte. i't nl-d an-clhep an-clhep chance lor a visit to Miss Libel Lib-el ty, scut it thrill through tho spectator spec-tator when at the close of a speed race with J. A. McCurdy of the Cur ti -s team bis propeller snapped, his iuoiioila in- dug into ihe ground in fioni of the grand stand, turned turtle tur-tle and burled the aviator Ull'liT-iia'b. Ull'liT-iia'b. lie was uninjured, and vvon the iae. Molxsani's w iuning of the 2,"f,rt dix-t.inte dix-t.inte pri;.; I f 1 1 d b tin- A ro (iun d America wax the other big ovcut of Ihe fl.iv . lie travfb-d Hpprovlmate. Iv V7 I -2 miles In two hours In land-!ng land-!ng ailer winning the event he sma.sh- d his prupi Her and broke a runnln ; v. heel, but esc;i.e.l uninjured. Iho Wright broihept were Jubilant at John-tones Mierx. It was the hr.-t time he bad ever Mown th. Ir tiny lo.idsior aiul he had t a new world's mark. Arch Hoxsey. his friend and rival, was one ol the hr-l to congrat ulat" Johnstone. As the crowd-, nl.out Ihe Judges' stand tieer. d Jind t hnT' il the announcement an-nouncement 01 .lohtist. uie'x wonderful air teat J. Armstrong Pn x'l swooped ,b wn I.) earth. He bad been battling in the a;r wbh the Wiight pupil, but had attained only v7' feet. Johnstone had easily won tho altitude alti-tude event with l't 5",.imiu prize. Ideal Day for Aviation. It wn- an bl-.il day. Tin- air was clear and crl-p. tho sim shune from a e'ear. blue xk). and ihere wax jjt cn.jiigh wind to stir trio row of fl.n a:"0g the fp of the grani s'and Iho pt event was the two-hour dlxtanco r io for a purse t,f !..,ii. donated I'V ruem'-.i rs cf the Aero Club cjf .'.mcilc.t The purse was pltt into tin e prli' s. Tho r. ;-ut or tho bmnb had hardly dod u'v iy when far across th field the white wlrCs of a ruonoplnne bbo' up fre.f -he rround ard swept toward tbe -'.irti: Pne. It was Molssnt, be wii.4 flying th- same machine wl'h v. h h he wi ri the Statue et I.!b-ert I.!b-ert fi bt. -'Bud Mars of tho Cur-f'.t Cur-f'.t i. r.i -1U.I Minon nnd U'hsra of tie Pn-fich i.-.-.-n followed nd en v 1 ri ' I 1- i' i '.''!' nt ; ti- a; : he 00 jr--l ali.'.'j'" a 1 r: I .; a minute pjCt. |