Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-26

was not so fast r. ". Radley. an Eng
nshman. IN a trimmed down Blcriot. went
b. him as n I've had been chained to a
stump. But Radley had frequent engine
trouble and never figured seriously In any
of the contests Of the day.
Latham was flying a ffty-horse power.
eight-cylinder machine. His siNteen-cylinder.
100 horse power machine. in which he will
compete for the Gordon Bennett cup. will
not arrive until tomorrow This powerful
racer Is supposed TO be capable OF seventy
miles an hour. against the seventy-siX
credited to the iOo-horse power Bleriot OF
lie Blanc
Thus FAR neither Of the 1OO-horse power
machines entered by the French team has
been seen in action.
What the new Curtiss and Wright racing
models cab do Is a conjecture They have
been kept close under cover but thus far
none Of the American machines have
shown themselves In the same class with
the foreign monoplanes. There was one
time this afternoon when Latham in an
Antoinette passed a Wright machine at the
turn and Radlcy followed and passed the
Antoinettc In the stretch.
The program for today went through BY
the card and the events called off vester-
day because Of the gale we're postponed to
later day, not yet named The hourly
distance and altitude events we're first. J.
Armstrong Drexel took first place in the
Initial distance event with twenty-eight
laps, or $3.50 miles, I'm @ minutes $685. sec
oIds. Auburn was second with twenty-five
laps and tombstone i'm a Wright biplane.
third with twenty-one laps.
In the same hour Count de Lesseps, in a
Bleriot, won the hourly altitude prize with
an elevation OF 66i5 feet. Brookins was
second in his unlucky flight. In the second
hour Latham, who started late, overhauled
HIS competitors and when time was called
was credited with twenty-one laps, one
less than he had actually made although
/ he had quit the course for some unknown
reason two minutes before the finish
Grahame- White, with twenty-one laps, took
second place. Auburn. in a Bleriot, was
! last Of all to start and first to finish, also
with twenty-one laps; but the judges de-
/ Quoted one lap as a forfeit for alighting
| in mid-course. Although he was placed
last, his time for the distance was the fast
est OF the three.
As dusk was falling. Charles X. Hamil
ton took out his 1l5-horse power Hamil
| tonian biplane and made a circuit Of the
course. His time was taken for the two
and a half kilometers OF the inner round
at minute 5S7s seconds, but ne swung Sc
| wide around the curves that his distances
was actually much greater and his speed
| correspondingly higher. Hamilton believe:
| that his machine is capable Of between
| sixty and eighty miles an hour.
The only accident Of the day occurred II
the elimination heats of the Grand Speed
contest, In which McCurdy and Mars o.
the Curtiss team and FriRbie. in a machin,
OF his own make, modelled after the Curtis
design, were entered. Frisbie fell before h,
had completed two laps from a height o
about twenty-five feet, but was uninjure'
and his machine was not badly damaged
In this event McCurdy finished first Fl
10 minutes fsm seconds for ten rounds o
the inner course. or 1853 miles. MoCurd!
also made the fastest single lap, in 1 minut
s. 1-10 seconds