The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-02
AMERICAN AERONAUT
 WINS BALLOON RACE
LIEUTENANT FRANK F. LAHM CAPTURES JAMES GORDON
 BENNETT CUP.


 Count De La VauIx, of France, Third
 Iahn's Balloon, the United States, in
 the Air for Twenty-three Hours
 Took From II o'clock at Night to
 Three i'm the Morning to Cross Eng
 fish Channel
 Paris, Oct IA semi-official an- nouncement of the result of the com- petition for the James Gordor Bennett cup for international aeroaauts was given out tonight as follows;
 Winner, Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm of America, with the balloon United States.
 second-siguor von Willer of Italy, with the balloon Fife.
 Third-Count de la Vaulx of France, with the balloon Walhalla.
 A definite and official announcement of the result will not be issued until verifcation that the rules of the con- test were carried out has been obtain ed
 M. Van der Driesche's balloon O1ouki landed at Bretigny, department of the Eure-Et-Loire.
 Santos Dumont reached Paris at 6 o'clock this evening and received a great ovation at the Aero club as he appeared with his arm in a sling. He explained that the accident was caused by the sleeve of his coat catching in the mechanism while oiling the motor of his balloon.
 The race was started yesterday aft ernoon when fifteen balloons, repre- senting seven countries sailed away from the Tuileries gardens in Paris Lieutenant Lahm's victory may be changed when the c. s. Rolls, one of the English contestants, is heard from. Rolls landing has not yet been report ed and there is some doubt regarding his relative position. Considerable anxiety Is felt for his safety, although his experience and caution are regarded as certain to bring him safely to the ground. Up to the present time, how ever, the performance of Lahm and Hersey in the balloon United States in reaching fifteen miles north of Scar borough, England, the best record at tained by any one of the fifteen start CTS. The members of the Aero club are inclined to believe that the United States was only prevented from pro- ceeding farther because a current of air again threatened to carry her out over the North sea, with no apparent prospect, unless the direction of the wind changed, of finding land before making the coast of Norway.
 London, Oct. 1.- Lieutenant Lahm descended about one mile inland at Deamene farm, Flyingdale. He said he had been carried by way of Caen across the channel to Chichester, The actual crossing took from ii o'clock at night until o'clock in the morning. He then passed to the northward, but finding that he was being carried toward the oren sea he decided to alight. Owing to the dryness of the moors his an- chors at first would not hold and the balloon passed dangerously near some farm buildings.
 Lieutenant Lahm's balloon was in the air for twenty-three hours.
 Prof Huntington, one of the English contestants in the zypher, landed at Sittingborne, Kent. He had trying ordeal in crossing the channel, which took him eight hours. Otherwise his voyage was uneventful and successful The Zephyr could not have gone anoth- CT quarter of a mile without being car- ried out to sea by the Thames estuary
 The WalhaIla, with Count de Ia vaulx, descended at 1:30 this afternoon at Walsingham, Norfolk. In an inter- view the count said he had splendid voyage, although the wind had been unfavorable. He estimated he had traveled $50 miles. His greatest altitude was 7,500 feet. The count started at once to return to Paris.