New-York tribune., 1909-06-10
FORBES BALLOON UINS.
Indiana Disqualified for Endurance
TrOphy-DiStdnCe Prize in Doubt.

Indianapolis. June s.-CarI q. Fisher and G l.
Bumbaugh. pilot and aid Of the balloon Indiana
acknowledged this afternoon in a dispatch to The
Indianapolis News that they had disqualified in
having touched earth twice before they made their
final landing in the national distance race OF the
Aero Club Of America
our water was unit drink" saws the dis
patch and IN a tempera ture Of 10 water looked
better 20 US than prizes"
With the Indiana out the endurance trophy Of
fered by the Aero Club OF Indiana goes to A Hol-
land Forbes. pilot OF the New York, who was up
thirty-Ave hours and ten minutes The record $
forty-'our hours. There probably will be a oontro-
versy for the distance trophy. II seems now that
the University city OF St Louis John Berry pilot
has won covering s7o miles. but If the New York
has lost Is by hardly fifteen miles The distance
record is $50 miles.
Mr.. Fisher said last night over the telephone
from Nashville that the Indiana had been the
air forty-eight hours when IL landed
Yes. We are safe" said Mr.. Fisher. thanks 10
the poor craftsmanship OF a number of farmers.
They began firing US when we were in Brown
County. Indiana. and have kept up the target
practice ever since II has been regular fusillade
down here in Tennessee"
A Holland Forbes the balloonist. who dropped
twenty-nine hundred feet in the Conqueror near
Berlin last October and shot by uniden-
tifed but perseverng man in Tennessee in the
New York last Sunday evening. tried yesterday
10 decide which Of the two exctements he would
prefer TO omit If called upon again TO experience
either. -
The advantages in either limited he
said There is a certain spectacular heroism that
occupies a mans mind when he is dropping through
space and realizes that half million persons are
hysterical at the sight But when couple Of we'll
meaning fellows like Harmon and swim
ming sothfully through the summer sky Sun
day evening. the vesper bells yelling all the land
scape in a holy hush. and all that sort of thing,
and when the restfulness and peace Of the balloon
and the hour have charmed appreciation
of life that only balIoCnists understand. there
is shock in the singing OF bullets near the bas-
ket that for pure antpathy all that has gone be-
fore beats anything that l have met
Mr. Forbes left the city yesterday 10 attend the
presentation by President Taft of the Aero Club
medals to the Wright brothers at the White House
to-day His aid in national balloon
Clifford B. Harmon.
1T was lazy drift, contrary TO the kind of a
race that both Mr.. Harmon and I wanted" he
said.
Announcement OF 9he winner will be made by the
Aero club of America this week a telegraph
message was received the club yesterday from
Williams WEIGH of the signal corps. declaring that
in his opinion Mr.. Forbes the winner having
travelled a straight distance of S5S miles. In view
of the fact that Carl @ Fisher has reported that
his ba oon the Indiana, touched ground several
times II is believed that Mr. Forbes will also get
the trophy for duration, his time in the air being
a trihe over thirty-fve hours: