The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-10
ONE PRIZE FOR n. Y. BALLOON
FORBES AND HARMON LONGER
IN: AIR THAN COMPETITORS.
The University City Gets the Distance
Trophy, Landing Ten Miles Further
From indianapolis Than the New York
-IndIana's Hall Raising Experience.

Trophy, Landing Ten Miles Furtner
From indianapolis Than the New York
-Indlana's Hair Raising Experience.
lNp1AYApoIIs, June Carl Fisher
and g. L. Bumbaugh, pilot and assistant
OF the balloon Indiana, to-day conceded
time and distance prizes to other con
testants in the national balloon race tina
started from Indianapolis last Saturday.
Though they made a fight OF forty
eight and a half hours, they ~praoucally
admit in a telegram received from them
at Louisville that their two landings in
Tennessee disqualified them. They Tore
saw a contest and averted it by admitting
that they had com to earth.
With the Indiana thus out Of consider
ation, the American duration fight OF
forty -four hours. made by Alfred Le-
blanc in the st. Louis races in 1907, still
stands. and the winners OF the national
race are decided.
The balloon University City OF st.
Louis.James Berry, pilot. and Paul MeCul
louQh, assistant, which landed on Free
stone Peak of Lookout Mountain at 5
O'Clock Sunday night, won the Aero
Club Of Americas trophy for distance.
Freestone Peak is between SG5 and $40
miles from Indianapolis.
The balloou New York of New York
city. A. Holland Forbes. pilot, n Clifford
Harmon, assistant. won tho duration
trophy offered Ivy Carl Fisher. The New
York was in flight thirty-five hours and
tn minutes, landing near Corinth. Miss.
which is ten or fifteen miles nearer In
dianapolis than Ere estone Peak.
" 49, from IntIgy1la in
which they concede the duration records
to some other conte slant FISHER ana
Bumbaugh say:
THE Indiana water cams had contained
oil, and this made the wa. Ter unfit to drink
At Schackle Island. Tenn. we came down
Sunday evening for water; IL was brought
to us from a spring. We emptied out
old water and put in the fresh, but this
became tainted in a few hosirs. We came
down at Island City Monday morning and
got fresh water regardless OF being dls-
qualified. We rested the balloon on
crossties and it did not touch the earth.
sThe rule that a balloon must not land
Ia very foolish, as a contestant loses from
three to five bags Of sand In making a
landing. Especially under such circum-
stances as we had at Shacks Island after
ten hours above the clouds in a tempera-
ture of 10 degrees water looked better
to us than prizes. n
I'VE concede without any argumeO
time and distance prizes to the other
contestants. We are stopping In Louis
vile for automobile race to-day. leaving
forIndiana polls at : O'Clock this evening.
Fisher and Bumhaugh in thel flight
had the most exciting time yet reported.
They were not only the target for rifle
men from the time they struck Brown
county, Ind. until they came down in
Tennessee, rs miles from Indianapolis.
but the wind currents of the Cumberland
River Valley toyed with them in such a
manner as TO make their hair stand on
end. A telegram from Fisher. who left
Nashville, Tenn, this morning. says:
Near Nashville we had the most thrill
ing experience Of the trip. and ~Bumbaugh
saws that in over 100 trips he never be-
fore had such an experience. and has
only read OF one.
.There seems to be a general current
Of air over the Cumberland River which
in some peculiar manner Is Affected by
the currents from over the mountains.
At any rate, while sailing along at 800
feet, Just after fixing up for our night
ride, our balloon commenced to Spln
around and ascend very rapidly. We
shot up to 1900 feet and we're almost
frozen stiff. ;.
1Bumbaugh was unable to figure it
out, and it was certain death to use the
valve to stop upward flight. White yapor
gas poured out Of the appendix and things
looked serious"
Fisher has already demanded Of the
Aero Club of America an investigation
of the charge made by Leo Stevens
that the two balloons Of his manufacture:
the Ohio and the Cleveland, both OF
Indianapolis. were supplied with inferior
cas- and ware tamnarp1 with.