Evening star., 1907-10-20
1T FRANK LAHn U.SA.
WINNER OF THE FIRST
JAMES GoRDoN BENnBT
CUP CONTEST

won in the first contest in France last
September by Lieut.. Lahm. In that race
tire solder crossed the English channel,
landing in the north of England, having
Travelled 4G2 miles.
Immediately after Lieut. Lahm's vic
tory the American Aero Club donated a
cup which will also be contested for dur
ing the coming week. 1t is to be a long
distance contest. 1t Is proposed to wait
and see what happens to the balloons that
sail in the big race before deciding about
the entries
None of the aeronauts attracts greater
attention about the hotels and on the
streets than the representatives of Ger
many, headed by Baron Won Abercron.
TIE baron was contestant in the pioneer
Bennett cup race last year. He has made
ninety balloon trips and won first prize In
the great race at Mannheim last May.
During a race held August lS he was
eighteen hours in the air. Oscar Erbsloeh
has made thirty ascenSions and was also
contestant in the Bennett cup race.
Later he took first prize in balloon race
from Brussels, making a flight of $50
miles. Paul Nickel was in the first bal
lnnn to cross the Alps, and Capt. Hide
brandt, who made all TIE arrangements
for the German delegation has made over
100 ascensions, in one of which he started
from Berlin and crossed the Baltic sea,
landing in Sweden :
Terms of the Race.
OF the American aerOnauts, who are not
entered in the Bennett cup race the best
known are Capt Ba dwin, Horace We'll.
Lincoln Beachy and Roy Knabenshue
Knabenshue has frolicked around among
New York's skyscrapers with a dirigible
balloon and sailed Baldwin's Arrow al the
worlds fair Horace Well won the first
prize at the Chicago balloon races
In the James Gordon Bennett cIIn ra re
the balloon which travels the farthest
measured in an air line from the DO nj
of starting to the spot of al.ghtng, wins:
But the race can be made one of en-
durance instead of distance if the condi-
! t1ons are unfaVol ab.e to the latter test
In that event the man remaining aloft
longest wins. In addition to the cup,
which goes to the club represented by the
winner, the winner himself will receive a
cash prize of 100. The next in the race
will receive $1,000 in cash, the third $50,
the fourth $500 nd the fifth $3.50.
A second contest for dirigible balloons
will be for prizes offered by the Aero Club
of st. Louis. This prize consists of 81 SOC
In cash. with these entries: Capt. Thomas
Baldwin of New York, California Arrow
| and Twin Propeller; Charles ]. Stroebel
No l, operated by Lincoln Beachy, and
No 2. operated by Capt. Jack Dallas;
Cromwell Dixon of Columbus, Ohio, Sky
Bicycle; S. Hemstreet of Chattanooga
unnamed balloon; John Berry of St. Louis,
the America
The st. Louis Aero Club also offers a
prize Of $500 for gasess flying ma
chimes, in which contest are the following
entries: Aeroplane, by II. H. Wixon of
Chicago; aeroplane, by Israel Ludlow,
superintendent of the Aero Exchange,
jamestown exposition; orthopter, by H.
c. Gammetar of Cleveland, Ohio; orthop-
ter, by a Columbus, Ohio, gentleman
whose name is withheld; flying machine,
Milwaukee No. l, by the. Vacuaerial Navi-
cation and Manufacturing Company of
Milwaukee, Dr. R. Silverston, inventor;
]. w. Rashon of Harrisburg, Pa; S.
Hemstreet of Chattanooga, Tenn; also a
flying machine by New York inventor
who has been at work with an instructor