Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-06
Grahame-White Coming for.
Flight at Benning.
OTHER EVENTS SCHEDULED
Amateur Aviation Meet at College
Park, Md.
LOCAL CLUB Is IN CHARGE
Mr.. White Wires He Will Bring
Both Monoplane and Biplane
With Him.

| With an amateur aviation meet at
College Park, Nd, under the auspices OF
the Aero Scientific Club Of Washington.
opening next Monday, and exhibition
flights scheduled to take place October
| ID. IA and 10 at Benning racetrack by
| Grahame White, the English aviator,
Washington is promised IN exhibition by
the birdmen before they go to Long
| Island for the international aviation
| meet.
A telegram was received by The Star
today from Grahame-White, who Is now
flying at Brockton, Mass, as follows:
Il will fly at Benning racetrack Octo-
Der Ii to 10. and will bring both mono
plane and biplane with me-"
Mr.. Grahame-Whttes exhibition has
been arranged for by J. S. Berger Of
New York. Mr.. Berger has made all the
arrangements for Benning track, and a
force Of men will begin putting the field
in readiness Immediately.
Arrangements are being made by the
Aero Scientific Club to have one or more
professional aviators give exhibition
flights at College Park during the anna
teur meet.
Robert Moore and John S. Smidley,
two local amateur aviators, are getting
| their aeroplanes in shape to send them
to College Park, Md, where they will
| take part next week in the amateur
meet. Mr.. Moore's machine is a mono
plane and Mr.. Smidley's a combination
of monoplane and biplane. Both have
been successful with their experiments
in flying, and will make strong bids for
the prizes which will be offered at the
meet.
The Aero Scientific Club has decided
to offer prizes for the amateurs who get
off the ground for short distances as we'll
as for the flights around the entire field,
and for duration and altitude. The first
prize for one of the short flights, just
clearing the ground, will be $50; second,
500. and third, $50
By its action in severing connection
with the Aeronautical Federation, the
Aero Scientific Club of Washington signi-
fled its intention of becoming affiliated
with the Aero Club of America, and, If
possible, with the Aero Club of Wash
ington.
Now that the Aero Scientific Club has
broken with the federation, 1t is believed
that the members of the Aero Club of
Washington will give their hearty sup
port to the College Park meet. and that
the club may offer a prize to be con-
tested for by the amateurs.
Plans for Belmont Park Meet.
Arrangements are being rapidly con-
cluded for the international aviation meet
at Belmont Park. in New York. This will
extend from October % to October go and
will bring together the greatest assem-
blage of aviators that has ever been seen
in America, II not In the whole world.
The feature of the meet and the reason
that 1t Is being held in America this year
is the contest for the Gordon Bennett
speed cup. won last year by Glenn Curtiss
at Rheims. This contest will bring out a
hos kyio hot No,.fno
can produce. and these. after they have
been chosen in the elimination trials, will
meet the pick of the worlds teams.
In all probability the elimination
trials will be held October 25.
There is the greatest rivalry for a
place on the team. The present ar
rangement is that Curtiss shall be in
vtted to constitute one-third of the
American team irrespective OF the
elimination trials. He has q machine
in reserve. said to be faster than any
thing he has heretofore exhibited. This
elimination contest will be open only
to the aviators who have been issued
pilots licenses by the Aero Club Of
P. Lahm, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright.
Clifford Harmon. Capt. Thomas Baldwin
and ]. Armstrong Drexel. j. c. Mars,
who has been flying long time; Charles
Willard and j. A. McCurdy are also anx-
ious to compete. and may qualify before
the trials are held.
Henry Weyman. another American
aviator who has made a reputation in
Europe, has applied for a place in the
elimination trials and it is expected that
an application will be received also from
John B. Aoissant. who made the spec
tacular two-man fight from Paris to
London.
The English and French trophy teams
have already been named. They include
Alfred lie Blanc, the winner of the great
French cross-country race; Hubert La
than and Rene Labouchere, who made a
name for himself at the Rheims meeting
this summer.
England has officially named Claude
Grahame-White, James Radley and Alec
Ogivle. Radley now holds the worlds
speed record for a straightaway mile
There IS a total of $4,000 in prizes Of
fered for the various events in the meet.
and the management has made arrange
ments for a profit-sharing scheme with
the aviators. They are to receive 20 per
cent of the first 100000 net profits and
40 per cent of all the profits over that.
There has been 1925. 900 collected by pop
ular subscription for the preliminary ex-
penses of the meet, and the promoters
figure on 100000 net profits.
The Mechelin trophy and the Scientific
American trophy also will be contested
for at the meet. To better the standing
figures in the Mechelin trophy event the
winner will have to beat 2+4 miles and a
duration OF five hours and three minutes.