Arizona republican., 1910-02-12


 A mile in 1:15; eleven miles in
 14:4O1a, of which ten miles were made
 in 13:31 3-5. fading an automobile; a trial flight with a breakdown and
 a twisted wing: cross-country run
 with the same machine repaired. to
 close the day; an aeroplane fire in
 the burning of six plumes; a high ride
 with missing feathers. Shree times
 around the fair grounds. with a fine
 finish and a busted tire-and that's
 going some. in the aviation line!
 Anybody who wasn't satisfied with
 yesterdays entertainment at the. fair
 grounds is an irritable old-well. he
 isn't a little bit of d pig. anyway.
 And If the fellows who perched them
 selves in the trees a half-mile away
 and were inconvenienced by having
 to wait an hour or so for the best
 events, what matters it? They should
 go to the box office and try to get
 their money back, or go inside today,
 where they can sit down and be cOm-
 fortable and see the fine points of
 the show as well. It was too bad to keep them waiting, but those on the
 inside had to wait also. and they
 
 time. when airships are so common that everybody has them and nobody cares a rap about seeing them, and they operate as perfectly all the time
 as they now do sometimes when con
 ditions are just right, it will be pos sible to give a meeting with the punctuality and the perfection Of a moving picture show, and the enter tainment will be just about as re- freshing. But in these rapid twen- tieth century days there Is nothing worth having except something that one is afraid all the time will get away from him. Most of the Amerl- can people are true sports. and a sportsman likes to take d chance. It is the chance that makes the pleasure of winning worth while. The Phoenix Aero club took q chance. and at this time it seems to he a winner. Hes- terday the big crowd at the grounds, nearly double that of the day before, took a chance. and won handsomely Yesterdays events were entirely satisfying. Not everything was ac- complished that was undertaken. but the same thing might be said of Ma poleon Bonaparte. Horace Greeley ana William J. Bryan. and yet who shall say that their lives have not been worth while? Some things were ac- complished that were not undertaken or not intended to be. and demanded action. and any one of several events at this particular time and place was worth the admission charge. The weather was beautiful and the sun shine bright. and the aviators sureiy ! mt in honest time. Hamilton. after his long race with the automobiles made a spectacular and graceful fin ish in front of the cheering crowd shut off the the clattering engine that , had been hammering his eardrums for a tense fifteen minutes ana dropped out of his machine. not eX- actlv exhausted. but very much fa- tigued. Willard. after hard luck early in the forenoon and hard work all afternoon. closed the days perform ance with d fine country flight and also alighted on the race track l in front of the people. with tears streaming from his eyes-not tears of sorrow or of fear. hut made mostly , bv the wind of the upper currents and responding easily to the joyful satisfaction of being able to make good after listening to tauntinS re-
 marks all afternoon concerning ms earlier hard luck. And, best of all,