The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-30
Bennett Prize for England After
ls Blanc Had II Almost
Within Grasp.
TWO SERIOUS ACCIDENTS
Brookins Falls About so Feet
at the Very Start lie Blanc
Smashss Into Telephone Pole.

Latham Also omes 90 GRIEF In His Roar.
ing Antolnctie Ie Banr and Brook.
ins IIit the Ground Win Machines
GoInE at More Than 40 Miles an
flour BroohinS's Engine Gives out
and the Wright Racer Il smashed
Le HIancS Fuel Gives Out on Hs
Last Lap Grahamc.whltc Docs O2.I
MILES IN 90 Minutes IO3 seconds %
at COOS NIIcs an Hour Le blanc
Wakes G8 So NiIr, Az Hour HiEh
Rights T UoNsrS and JolinstOnr.
America - ~" James Gordon Rnnne,s
in'e-rpti1ual aviation speed cup at Bel
mont Par, yesterday 10 England wh@i
Claude Grnhcme-Wni'a 81 the English
'nan 81 Gi"r4 circi"d rhe international
.purs" pt I've hi.pme'sr- tw"nty limos a
total dl.;ano- %: ~ ! miic-. in 81 minute,
eos seconds Grahane.Whits. the first
man or 81 ~" track. arose at s.,2 O'Clock
In IA. morning and after IA" had COM
pla'el ~" twenty iap- IN "A continuous
aight that won the trophy Tor his country
and cash pri," 81 s. ou0 which goes "a the
aviator personally. the Engii-hman con-
tinued on aud Skipped around three extra
LAP. Tor good measure. 10 prevent the
possibility Of being disqualified later for
dying inside pylon-.
The English hier won the trophy with
a French aeroplane propelled 10y a French
engine He flew "A Bl"rioi monoplans
equipped with Gnome engine Of 100
Horsepower
Graham Whites averdg" speed n
~ 0s miles an hour was exceeded ~
Alfred l.. Banc'> average speed Of 0s.S
miles an hour. which also was made with
= Bl@r,ot ~ lOI horS"-pow"r. hut when
I.e Blanc WAS on hi- last lap Inc crashed
into one of the telephone poles along the
northeastern part u IN" course to which
IN" French team have objected so often.
broke IN the upper part ~ the pole AMI
fell amid tangl- 81 pole. telephone wires
and moupplaua wrcCkage Just a. he hAf
victory and worlds speed record in
has hand He was not injured seriously.
L.. Blanc's time fpr the nineteen laps.
or ~ 81 miles was 81 minutes 30 OJ seconds.
His first lap was made al a rate Of seventy
miles an hour. worlds record for the
lap and from the time he took the air he
passed. the winner repeatedly until the
FT-ncumau crashed 10 earth. break
ing ~" worlds record for each II the
nineteen laps that he completed. Beyond
some tad cuts ahov. and below the right
81 Obi MI al hal
up and br,i-ing IL Blanc was a. ~ a.
- fiddle after he wrecked the telephone
pol. with hr- machine and smashed ~
earth with terrific force Just outside tbs
park fence.
HROOKISs IN'UHFB WORSE THAN ~ BLANC,
Walter Brooklns IN the new Wright
racer propelled by an eight cylinder
Wright cngln. fell from a height ~ about
fifty feet inst a. he was about to cross tho
starting line shortly after 10 O'Clock N
the morning and was injured more 500
verely than H.. Blanc -Four 81 the ",ghs
cylinders 81 his "ngin" went dead. wreck
ing he biplan. IA front ~ the grand stand,
whcrr already about : oDp 81 the :5.OOD
persons who saw yesterdays flight had
gathered
Az first " was thought that Rrookins
had b...'n injured internally. hut after
he had h."n carried on -tretch"r to tho
Temporary hospital back II III" club
hous.. Or Charles Ross 10 the Belmon1
emergency stan found that super-
fetal examination showed a badly lacer-
Atsd knee" a spraincd hip and general
bruises aud Commissions. After . S"dativs
had h"an administered to BrooklnS hs
slept during most 81 the day IN the eIner-
g"ucy hospital
Il. blanc hlam"s his being winged
un ~" forgetfIln"ss ~ on" nf hia
mechanics who failed 90 MI his gaSnlena
tank properly before "a. race" Ths
Frenchmnn SAYS that h. noticed during
ms seventeenth lap that h" VAS running
out Il fu"l bat kept on in m" hop" that
enough petrol was left Ia keep him aloft
for the twenty laps ot IN" full race. ~
soon as ~ Blanc had b"en handag'd up
he got some relief from his injuries To
body and mind 10y racing 10 his hangar
in an automobile" To- fir" IN" mechanic.
alter thare was q rumor about that
10 blanc Expressed IN" opinion 10 his
friends that ~" mechanic had boon
-GNsd- by some one or other - send tbs
aviator aloft with his fuel tank only
partly filled
Before Brook,ns fell Aleck Ogilvie u Tho
Engh.h team assembled IN tn. four cylin-
der Wright -roadster.' built for qu'''.
altitude climbing hut not Tor racing.
with tho hops that th" roadster would
p,tdistanc. "a" 100 horse power mono
plane 81 Grahnme Whit" ~ u had passed
Cirahane- Whites - horse power few
DAYS ago. But although Ogllvle was tbs
only other fiar "a compl"t. the twenty
lars h.,-ids.s q rama me- White. Moisant aud
Latham n" had tn rom" To earth early
IN his fight whom ono NJ the spark plugs
NJ hia eugin" wont through m" "N'rior-
N0THINGLIkE ASoUART- POT HRATER
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