The Washington herald., 1910-10-30

New York. Oct. 29.-America
lost the Gordon Bennett interna-
tional aviation speed cup at Bel
mont Park to-day to England, when
Claude Grahame-White, Of The
English team OF f1iers, circled the
international course Of 5 kilometers
twenty times, . total distance of
62.l miles, in 81 minutes 4.74 sec
onds.
Grahame-White, the first man
out on the track, arose at 8:42
o'clock in the morning, and after
he had completed the twenty laps
in 4 continuous flight that won the
trophy for his country and a cash
prize Of $1,000, which goes to the
aviator personally. the EngH hman
continued on and skipped around
three extra laps for good meas
ure to prevent the possibility Of be-
ing disqualified later for flying IN
side PyIons.
WON WITH 4 BLERIOT.
The English flyer won the trophy with
a French aeroplane propelled by
French engine. He few a Bleriot mono
plane equipped with a Gnome engine
Of loo-horsepower.
GTahame- Whites average speed Of G0g3
miles an hour was exceeded by Alfred
lie Blanc's average speed Of $50 miles
sn hour, which also was made wIth
Bleriot OF Io0-horsepower. bat when Le
Blanc was oa lis last lap he cras j
into enc OF the telephone poles along the
southeastern part OF the course. 10
which the French team have objected 50
often. broke or the upper part 81 the
pole, and fell amid tang.e OF pole,
telephone wires. and m0noplane wreck
age just as he had victory and worlds
speed record in his hand. He was not
seriously injured.
lie Blaucs time Tor the nineteen laps,
or 59S7 miles, was = minutes 500 ssc-
onGs His first lap was made az rate
OF seventy miles an hour. a world
record for the lap. and from the time ls
took the air he passed the winner re-
peatedly until the Frenchman crashed 10
earth. Beyond some bad cuts above and
below the right eye and on the chin. and
a general shaking up and bruisiDg, lie
Blanc was AT as q fiddle after he
wrecked the telephone pole with Ala ma
chine and smashed 10 earth with terrific
force just outside the park fence.
Brookins Has Bad Fail.
Walter Brookins. in the new Wright
racer, propelled by an eight-cy Under
Wright engine, fell from q height Of
about nifty feet just as he was about IT.
cross the starting line shortly a1,er -
o'clock in the morning and was injured
more severely than lie Blanc. -Four ot
tae eight cylinders went dead, wIeckiug
the biplane ia front Of the grand stand.
where already aboGI 5000 OF the -5.oaJ
persons who saw to-day's fishts had
gathered
At first it was thought that Brookins
had been injured internally. bul exam
ination showed a badly lacerated knee, a
sprained hip. and general bruises ana
CO ontusions. After a sedative had been
administered 10 BroOkins he slept during
most of the day in the Emergency Hos
pitaI.
lie Blanc blames his being winged on
the forgetfulness Of one OF his meclanica,
who failed TO nh his gasoline tank prop
erly before the race. The FTenchman
sad that he noticed during his seyell-
teenth lap that he was running out OF
fuel. but kept on In the hope that enough
petrol was left TO keep him aloft for the
twenty laps of the full race.
"Crooked" Work Charged.
As soon as lie Blanc had been band
aged up he got some relief from his in
juries to body and mind by racing to
his hangar in an automobile 70 fire the
mechanic. Later there was a rumor that
lie Blanc expressed the opinion 10 his
friends that the mechanic had been
fixed by some one or other 10 send the
aviator aIoft with his fuel tank only par
TALLY filled.
When Erookins fell Alec OgiIvie. Of tie
English team, ascended III the f0ur-cyl-
inder Wright roadster built for quick
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