Arizona republican., 1910-10-26
IN INTERNATIONAL MEET
His Successor Climbed 198 Feet Higher Into the Sky Through a Snow Storm. Other Exciting Aviation Events At Belmont Park.

New York, Oct. 25.-The American
 altitude record that Drexel proudly
 brought down out of the clouds yes | terday in a Bleriot monoplane was snatched from his grip by Ralph Johnstone today in a headless Wright climber.
 Drexel reached 7,I05 feet, but John stone topped him 19S feet, with a new mark of 1908 feet. He came l down chilled to, the bone, his goggles trimmed with frost. For half an hour he battled with a snow storm above clouds, seeking still higher levels Grahame- White was first out in hourly distance trials. Hubert Lath- am was his competitor. When engine trouble forced Whites Farman bi- plane off the field, it looked as if Latham in the Antoinette would have the event to himself. White saw that the scantiest score would bring him second place and for an hour tinkered with his collicky engine. Tn the last two rounds he took down the easiest $100 of the tournament.
 Hoxsey and Johnstone, both went for altitude In the haste of the mo- ment Johnstone started without bar ograph. When he came down he had nothing to show how high he had gone and was left unplaoed
 Lesseps pointed up much later than the two Wright pupils but caught both. and soaring above them, brought down the prize of the first hour.
 The second hourly distance event was pursuit race. Grahame-W White tried a Farman again, found it un- reliable ana took it off the field for repairs. During his absence the lead he had gained was cut down by speedier rivals who started later White took out fast Bleriot mono plane. lie gained steadily on Me Curdy in a Curtiss bi-plane, but the latter finished first with a lap to the good McCurdy fouled two py- Ions trying to cut corners fine How ever forfeit cost him first place.
 Hoxsey and Johnstone went for alti- tude again. accompanied by Latham in an Antionette. Latham's machine began to caper like a buck and wing dancer. The history of the Antoinette, how ever, is Latham's history He boasts that he has broken every part of it at least twelve times. Once he fell 1900 feet perfectly helpless, but the planes parachuted and saved him. The crowd thought Latham was doing somersaults to please them but he was not; he was in real peril He started to descend when he felt rain and caught a wind flaw. He was tossed to one side and the other, first up then down, and the tilted planes shot down in a steep swoOp. In a matter of seconds the rush of the descent had eaten up the half mile between him and earth and he was hidden behind a clump of trees. Ely, in a Curtiss bi-plane, went out re- connoitering and found Latham with nothing worse than a punctured wing and broken skid.
 The last event of the day was full of uncertain suspense. F. w. Radley of the British team flashed over the line in a Bleriot and vanished into the east before it was known to any but the judges that he had started in a cross-country race of twenty miles to captive balloon ten miles east of the course. Radley made the twenty miles in nineteen minutes. forty eight and two-fifths seconds.
 Moissant, in a passenger carrying Bleriot. started almost as Radley finished and there shortly followed McCurdy in a Curtiss bi-plane and Drexel in a Bleriot at intervals of approximately a minute. All three got lost and Drexel and McCurdy never finished
 Much interest was attached to the first appearance of the new Wright racer with Orville Wright in the pilots chair. It was given two try outs. Garros. of the French team. caught it's time for one lap at the morning trial at one minute and twen- ty-six seconds and at the afternoon trial at one minute and twenty eight seconds. The unofficial figures will be compared with those given by the judges today for the fastest lap made yesterday by Auburn in Bleriot, one minute and forty-fOur seconds.
 Tomorrow the first elimination heats in the trial for the Gordon Bennett cup, the international trophy, will be begun