The Cairo bulletin., 1910-10-30
BENNETT CUP IS
WON By BR|ION
GR&HAME WHITE, IN BLERIoT
MoNoPLAME, LIFTS TROPHY
FROM AMERICA.
TWO AV|AT0RS INJURED
Walter Brookins in Baby Wright,
Fell SO Feet---lnjuries Not Sc
rious--Lathans Also Hurt
Slightly.

New York, oct. 29. Charles Gra-
hame-White, flying for the Royal Nero
Club Of the United Kingdom, lifted
the Gordon Bennett cup, Internal onal
speed tropay, from the custody of
America today, in the fastest time
ever covered for the full distance OF
100 kilometers t6214 miles, around
a five kilometer course His aver
/ age speed was a fraction better than
61 miles per horr an- its fastest lap
was minutes, 55,7la seconds, but
the captain of the Freneh team, Al
| fred Lfred Leblanc, In a snaller ma
chine, a 100 horse power Blerict mon
oplane, was making each lap on an
average of twenty seconds faster tnan
White, and would have won ii he had
mot met with disastrous cc'dent in
Itne last lap, when he had the race
seemingly in his aand.
His first lap was new worlds rec
ord for five kilometers. minutes,
45.63 seconds, but he subsequently
exceeded 1t with alap done in min
utes, Al seconds.
Leblanc was running with the wind
at an estimated saeed of 80 miles
per hour when the feed pipe from the
gasoline tank to the motor loosered
and he suddenly found himself with
nothing bat momentum to carry hin,
Racing aeroplane drivers find they
cannot effect a proper glide If the
power Is off, Leblanc Was helpless
and panic stricken. He tfied the lift
planes so as to let few drops Of
gasoline filter into the engine and
lend him strength enough to make
tae landing The steerage way was
gone and when a m.G Qf wina caught
him he driited sideways, still driving
at tremendous speed, and crashed
read foremost into a telegraph pole.
Broke Telegraph Pole.
The pole was fourteen inches thick
but ne broke it in three pieces IS If
It had been stick. The chass is
AMI steel shield which enclose the
motor crumpled, but the solid steel
motor itself withstood the shock.
Had Leblanc hit the pole in any other
manner it is difficult to see how he
could have escaped death.
a. l n
Blanc would have won the race and
would have established world s
record even better than his own ex-
eept for mis- mishap. Chas X. Han
ilton, of the American team said:
Leblanc is the best trick driver
in the world. No American machine
had chance with him. | am going
to throw my machine into tpe scrap
heap and buy blerot The biplane
is out Of date, and we might as well
admit it,"
Hamilton will challenge for the
cup next year The Wright brothers
will also build new racer and go
after it. Jonn b. Moissant will be
third challenger
Walter Brookins Hurt
In addition to the Leblanc accident
| today Walter Erookins, of the Wright
team, who had taken up new baby
| Wright racer for the first time, met
disaster. The machine was comRara-
lively untried and in previous fights
Orville Wright always guided it. Elk.
perts had predicted il the engine ev-
er refused to explode the machine
could never glide safely to land, but
would fall. That is what happened.
| Brookins coming around a turn into
! the home stretch, preparatory to en-
| tering the Gordon Bennett race, when
four of his eight cylinders ceased fir
| ing. With only half power he tried
to sustain himself by mounting, then
descend, but the machine plunged to
earth. He hit the earth from a
! heighth Of fifty feet. Driven by the
wind and engine he came hurl-Tg
| through the air at such tremendous
1 bptfu Itldl W itll ne lOuSllGA lbR Nffi'eA'
the machine collapsed. Brookins
was thrown from his seat in a somer-
savlt. When the cloud of duct clear
I ed Brookins was seen staggering
around, his arms tight clasped about
his stomach. He raised them spas
I medically to his head Then clasped
head and rocked to and fro. An am
! Eulance buried him to the field hos
pital, 1t was later announced that
though he had been painfully in
jurel In the groins the severe bruises
were not serious. His life Is in no
danger
Leblanc got black eve, a deep cut
under the chin and broad scratch
across the right tenpfe. but Is able
4 to lobble about.
TWO Americans Start
OF the three Alnericaps selected to
| ,espqastpS u sss1s|pasr eanett cup, for