The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-29
DOWN AND OUT.
OPP to Hamilton and Drexel

the race America must depend on
Hamilton and Drexel. Hamilton drives
a so horse power Bleriot. Hamilton is,
therefore the only machine of power
equal to those against which the short
ened American team must compete.
LIE Blanc's 100 horse power Bleriot is
] a thing of fragments, but Grahame-
White, in a similar machine, cut out q
| pace this morning that will be hard to
| beat.
Neither Hamilton or Drexel came out
| this morning but at noon Drexel signi-
| fed his intention of trying his luck
| later against the wind, that was then
| blowing 20 miles an hour. Radley, of
| the British team, who has not yet come
out, also has a very fast Bleriot, al
though it is of only so horse power and
| is an adroit and daring driver, but he
will wait in view of his lower horse
power, for the best wind he can get.
The race must be won or lost today.
The summaries thus far follow:
! Grahame- White-2o laps, the full dis
| lance Of 100 kilometers. ELAPSED time
1 hour l minute 43-5 seconds.
LIE Blanc-1S laps. 81 minutes 40 S-5
| seconds.
Ogilvie CWright)-2O laps, two hours
! minutes SO 3-5 seconds.
Latham Antoinette-16 laps, so min
utes "a As seconds.
Undismayed by the accident to their
teammate, Brookins, Hoxsey and
tombstone of the Wright camp, took
the air near O'Clock in another of
their daily duels for altitude. Hoxsey
was up first at 1;55 and tombstone
followed him fifteen minutes later.
The wind was still blowing 20 miles
an hour and they had difficulty in
making Roadway against it.
Start of the Race.
Belmont Park, Oct. 29.-The Inter
national race for the Gordon Bennett
here this morning, Claude Grahame-
White, the English aviator being the
/ first of the competitors to get away.
White crossed the starting line at
| 8:39:42. He flew at the level of about
100 feet and was making mile a min
ute as he crossed the mark.
| The rules provide that starts may
be made at any time after $3.50 o'clock,
an aviator once starting not being al
lowed to descend for another try. Con-
| Each contestant must fly 20 laps over
| the long course, a total of 62.1 miles.
Only one start is allowed providing the
aviator crosses the starting line.
| The Entrants.
American team-Walter Brookins,
SOTO horsepower Wright; Charles K.
Hamilton, 110-120 horsepower Hamil
tonian; J. Armstrong Drexel, so horse
power Bleriot. Substitutes: Mars,
| Moisant and Hoxsey.
observation-disclosures Grahame- White,
| SO horsepower Bleriot; James Radley,
so horsepower Bleriot; Alexander
Ogilvie, 4-cylinder Wright racer.
France-Alfred LIE Blanc. 10 horse
| power or so horsepower Bleriot; HUI
bert Latham, 100 horsepower Antoin-
| cite.
White made his first round in
| 3:15.64 His greatest speed was in
drifted by the northwest wind. He kept
going up to avoid the dangerous gusts
and passed on his second round in
/ 6:24.1S.
LIE Blanc lost control of his machine
at the southeast corner of the course
and his aeroplane ran into a telegraph
pole. The pole was cut in two and the
machine was completely wrecked. LIE
Blanc sustained slight cuts On his face,
but his injuries are not serious.
/ Lie Blanc Makes Fast Time.
/ LIE Blanc decided to use his 1000 horse
/ power Bleriot racer and after trial
/ around the course at hair raising speed
| started officially and made the fast
| time of 2:45:63 on his first round. His
rate of speed was calculated at 20
miles an hour, a new worlds record.
When White had finished his seventh
lap his time was taken 22:02:S6. Both
| aviators drifted over the stand as they
made their west turns.
The wind velocity at-this stage of the
race was given as from 10 to 15 miles an
hour, Alexander Ogilvie, of the
English team, was the third contestant
to start. He drove a four cylinder
Wright biplane and made his first round
in 3:21:62 and his second in 7:6:44.
| Grahame-W finished in the
elapsed time of one hour one minute
| and four and three one hundredths sec
onds. White made extra laps so as to
| provide for penalties which might have
been imposed during his ride.
White covered half the course in
31:194S He passed his thirteenth lap
in 4O:21.57. his average time up to that
point being a mile minute. He turn
ed his fifteenth lap in ASHER and his
sixteenth in 49:11.04.
LIE Blanc finished his eighth lap in
! 22:21.5S slower time than that made by
White.
The French aviator, however, began
to cut his corners better and was sail
ing close to a worlds record. He pass
ed his ninth lap in 2501 and continued
to make fast time, passing his 18th lap
in 5O:04.01.
When LIE Blanc was on the 18th lap
he met with an accident that put him
out of the race. Losing control he ran
into telegraph pole and his machine
was wrecked. LIE Blanc was taken to a
hospital but his hurts were confined to
slight cuts on the face. LIE Blanc's fast
time it is thougH 1ta BY many would
trophy. His time for the 18th lap was
| 52:49.71.
OgiIvie. the second member of the
English team to start was early out of
the race. Reason for his descent was
not at once apparent.
Latham dipped and almost went into
the club house on his 18th lap. He saw
ed himself by wonderful skill and pass
ing the start, turned from the course
and went to his hangar.
Piclpockets Are Busy.
New York, Oct. ga squad of New
York detectives was sent to Belmont
park today to scrutinize the aviation
meet crowd for the faces of some fanil-
lar crooks who are suspected of having
designs for extensive operations among
the fashionables gathered there. The
presence of clever thieves was called
suddenly to the attention of the auth
critics by the announcement today that
. $4,000 worth of jewelry disappeared at
the meet on Wednesday from the hand