Evening star., 1909-06-07
All Others in Endurance Race
Reported Down.
SAILING TOWARD THE GULF
St. Louis III and Indiana Believed
Still in the Contest.
AERONAUTS ARE SHOT AT
Fired Upon While Passing Over
Kentucky and Again in Alabama.
Indianapolis Wins Handicap.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, June AT noon
today only the balloons Indiana, Carl
Fisher pilot and G. A. Bumbaugh assist
ant, and the ST. Louis III, A. r. Lamber
of ST. Louis pilot. Of all the balloons that
started in the balloon races here Satur-
day. had not been reported down. The
New York landed at $40 o'clock this
morning at Corinth, Miss, within 400
miles of Indianapolis. The Hoosier.
Capt. T. N. Baldwin pilot, landed this
morning at Greenbrier, Tenn, which is
approximately 300 miles from Indian
apolis.
1t is practically certain no records will
be broken.
The ST. Louis III is supposed to be sail
ing toward the Gulf of Mexico. The In
diana had come near enough to ground
at Shackle Island, Tenn, at o'clock
last night to let down two buckets and
get fresh supply of water. The occu-
pants had then lightened ballast and
mounted again to the higher currents to
continue the race. Shackle Island is
twelve miles north of Nashville.
The Cleveland. A. Fl. Morgan of Cleve-
land. pilot. and the University City. j. S.
Berry of ST. Louis. pilot, have dropped
out of the big race The Cleveland
Ind, at o'clock Saturday night, max
Ing but little over forty miles and at
tributing the poor flight to poor gas.
The University City landed near Fayette-
vile, Lincoln county. Tenn. at o'clock
Sunday night. after being up twenty
five and one-half hours and making ap-
proximately $40 miles.
Win Handicap Race.
DR.. Goethe Link the pilot. and J. r.
Irwin. assistant. flying the Indianapolis,
won the trophies In the great handicap
race which started at 3:45 Saturday aft
ernoon, just preceding the national race.
The Indianapolis just cleared the Ken
lucky Tennessee line and landed at West
moreland. Tenn. forty-five miles north
east of Nashville. at IL o'clock yester-
day. The Chicago landed just north of
the state line at the fair grounds at
Scottsville. KY. sixteen miles north OF
Westmoreland. while the Ohio. the third
contestant in the handicap race, landed
a half mile northeast of Nashville, Ind,
at $50 o'clock Saturday night.
The Indianapolis by its hight won the
cup offered for the greatest distance by
the Indianapolis Merchants Association,
better of the Ohio, and she also won the
Fisher trophy for time in the air, having
a margin of almost two hours on the
Chicago.
The victory of the Indianapolis men in
Their 10000 cubic feet capacity balloon
is considered remarkable, inasmuch as
they are new in the game and they
started on their flight with but five bags
of sand, or approximately $50 pounds OF
ballast. They were provisioned light.
They made 235 miles and were in the
air nineteen hours.
Shot at in Kentucky.
A message from them says their high
est altitude was 1900 feet-approximate-
ly 21a miles. They were shot at twice
as they went over Kentucky, but were
not hit. The weather, they report. was
perfect and the night trip was pleasant.
A. n. Morgan, pilot, and j. A. Wade. jr.,
assistant. of the Cleveland, returned to
Indianapolis today. While the manufac-
turer of the craft charged the failure Of
the fight to a poor quality of gas given
that balloon and the Ohio. the two Cleve-
land men attributed the failure TO defec-
tive seams. They soon discovered, they
said, that something was wrong. In fact.
before they started they could only get
away with sixteen bags of sand, though
the bag should carry more than forty.
The balloon, after attaining a height
of 10000 feet and going twenty or thirty
miles. began to spend its force rapidly
and to drop.