New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-12
AIR DASH WILL Be FAST
Conditions Favor Spectators in
Liberty Statue Flight.
MUST FINISH IN TWO HOURS
Race for $4,000 on Afternoon
of Oct. 27 Open to Aviators
at International Meet.

T. .,s cafe TO assume that Miss Lib
ertv will greet two weeks from tomorrow
for ~ sa,ond time in her history a. man
:, f,-,-,c machine This time he will be
bent ,,non cutting his visit as short as pos
sih,a for m brevity will depend his chance
to win THOMAS F. Ryan's $4,000 prize.
She nav greet half dozen flyers or a.
fun dozen II so, she viii be hard put TO
re7nen,nar their names. for the trick of en-
circIing her once and then fading away in
the mist of an autumnal afternoon toward
Belmont PARK must be done within two
hours
4 wear ago this month Wilbur Wright
few around the Statue Of Liberty and re-
turned to Governors Island.
The statue Of Liberty prize of $4,000
given by Thomas T. Ryan must be contest
ed for on THURSDAY. october -. Contest
ants must start from Belmont Park be
tween as and 8 40 D. m, suiting their
convenience and their motors mood. The
contest viii be open only 10 those flyers
who shall have remained aloft at least one
hour during the earlier days Of the inter
national tournament
The aviator who makes the best time
from the starting line at Belmont Park
around Miss Liberty and return to starting
line viii get the $4,000.
Conditions Favor Spectators.
These conditions viii do away with the
early morning flights that catch even the
milkmen mapping. and the system OF halt
ing hops followed by twilight twaddle. IN
which the motor is made responsible for
everything. including falls early sunsets
The winner must be back in the midst Of
the Belmont Park spectators not later than
80 o'clock. on the same day.
A direct flight would be over the con-
gested sections Of South Brooklyn. total
distance Of thirty-three miles for the
round trip. The distance by the oversee
route would be sixty-five miles. The avia-
tors will be asked 10 decide upon the route,
and then all who participate must follow
the course agreed upon. It is believed that
the shorter mileage viii be chosen not
withstanding the thousands OF rooftops
Offering no sudden solution 10 an avtators
necessity 20 alight
While it is the largest prize 70 be COM
peted for at the tournament. II is consid-
cred improbable r t any Of the highest
power monopIanes Will be entered. It will
be a task for the machine that has not
been stripped Of all those things making
ing around q fiat. protected racecourse- It
Is expected that the 50-horsepower Bleriots
and bipIanes will visit Miss Liberty. the
pivot in one Of the most difficult cross
country flights ever made,
Seven Men, All Possible Winners
Seven aviators already entered for the
international contests have done things 10
argue strongly in favor Of each as the pos
sible winner Of this prize
John B. AIoisant, American. made a
fight with q passenger from Paris 70 Lon
don. He had never been in England and
found the Crystal Palace with G compass
Henry weymann. American, few from
Paris TO Clarmont-F errond in one day-26e
miles
Alfred LIE Blanc is the winner Of the
recent 4S8-miIe 'cross-country fight made
in France in legs Of sixty and seventy-fvt
miles.
Charles H Hamilton dew from New
York 70 Philadelphia ard return
Walter Brookins sailed from Chicago to
Springfield, IL. Emile Auburn. French:
Grahame-White. English, and Arch Hox-
sey, OF the Wright team, are all danger
Gus men when prizes are hanging high
James RadIey, OF the English trophy
team. tested his 5O-horsepower engine on
his BlAriot yesterday at Belmont Park
He expects TO fly any day in practice work.
Four German and one French aeronaut
arrived on the steamship Kronprinzesstn
CectIie yesterday on their way TO St Louis
for entry in the international balloon race
starting next Monday. The party con
sisted OF Captain Hugo Won Abercron and
Lieutenant Blanckertz. Of the German
army. who VIII sail the Gernania: Herr
Gericke, pilot OF The Dusseldorf II; Lieu
tenant Vogt- whose balloon is the Ham