New-York tribune., 1910-01-21
PLANES In A RACE
CURTTSS THE TICTOR.
Hamilton's Narroso Escape
Prises 4re A7carded.

Los Angeles. Jan. % AS dusk gathered
over the old Dominguez ranch tonight
four flying machines that had been circling
In the air descended, the aviators walked
to their tents. the great crowd filed down
the roadway and the first International
aviation meet held In America was finished
While Charles K. Hamilton was return
ing from q. fifteen-miIe flight toward the
ocean tonight the crank shaft of his ma
chine snapped a mile from the field and
he narrowly escaped death Hamilton
shut off the engine and so levelled and
swayed his planes that he came down
gently. 1t was a clever emergency
handling of machine, but was not seen
by the spectators.
Curtiss and Paulhan furnished the excite
ment OF the closing day. Paulhan went
up at 8:25 o'clock for an endurance flight
After he had done two or three laps of
the course Curtiss started ten-lap speed
trial, half a lap, moro than three
quarters OF mile, behind Paulhan. It
was the first real race of the ten days
meet
The two aeroplanes came over the grand
stand with the speed Of express trains.
Curtiss gained swiftly on Paulhan, and
on the third lap he reached Paulhan, flying
above him. The Frenchman for a few
seconds held even. Then Curtiss. in his
American machine. forged ahead a length,
and finally half a tap.
1t was no race after that. The American
machine was the faster beyond question.
Paulhan went on until he had travelled
e44 miles ana had been in the air nearly
an hour and half Curtiss came down
after a thirty-nlile trip.
This race gives the whole story of the
meet. The Curtiss machines won all the
prizes for speed, quick starts, perfect land
tngs and those events where a light swift
machine showed best
Paulhan won all the 'cross-country pas
senger carrying and endurance tests, hav-
ing heavier. slower machine .and an en-
gine which he trusts absolutely. He took
more than $1,000 in prizes, and broke the
worlds records for altitude and cross
country flights alone and with passenger.
Curtiss broke no worlds records, and
won less than 5000 in prizes
Hamilton and Willard took second and
third prizes in most events.
The prizes won during the aviation meet
follow:
Hetght-First, 5000 Louis Paulhan, A.165
feet; second, 5000, Charles K Hamilton
5so5 feet: third. $500 Glenn Curtiss. no Off
cial height taken.
Endurance and timeFirst 5000 Louis
Paulhan. 75. miles, 1892; second. $1,000
Charles K. Hamilton 10 "A miles. SO 20 2-5;
third $500. Glenn II. Curtiss, 1911 miles.
24:542-5
Speed. ten laps-First. 81 ,ooo. Glenn H Cur
tiss, 1911 miles % AZ S-5: second. $3.50 Louis
Paulhan, 1911 miles. "a 50 S-5; third, $500
Charles K. Hamilton, 1911 miles. 3o:34 3-5
Three laps with passenger-First, 1000,
Louis Paulhan, 4s3 miles. s:161- No
others contested
Slowest lap-First $500 Charles x Ham
ilton 1.61 miles. 1856 2-s.
Quickest start-F1rst. $3.50, Glenn H Cur
tiss. es feet
Starting and landing in square-s25o.
Charles F. Willard Won score perfect
Cross countryside nn0: Paulhan won
The following are records for the course
also made:
Speed, one lar, PIP, Glenn H Curtiss.
Shortest time in rising, 62-5 seconds,
Glenn H Curttss
Dirigibles. one lap. 4574-5 lincoln
Reachey.
There was an odd parade to day, show
ing the evolution Of travelling It was
headed by old Ezra Meeker of Oregon
trail fame, seated in a prairie schooner
drawn by oxen After him came COW
boys. burros. carriages. automobiles. bal
loohs' olrlslpleS ana nnally the various
aerodromes, ending with a multiplane that
looked like a wheat harvester Curtiss
and Paulhan walked in the van like bash
full schoolboys
Charles K Hamilton will go to San
Diego Tomorrow and attempt 10 get the
worlds record for altitude. now held by
Paulhan, he says; Glenn H Curtiss to-
morrow will leave Los Angeles for Ham
mondsport. N Y, and Charles H. Willard
will go to Portland, Ore