Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-30
WHITE WINS THE
BENNETT TROPHY
In Addition to the Cup, the English.
man Carries Off a $4,000
Cash Prize,
BIRD. MEN MAKE SWIFT FLIGHTS
Winner Goes at a Speed that Exceeds
Mile Per Minute,
ALL RECORDS ARE SMASHED
Flying So Fast that Visiting AvistOTS
Put in a Protest
FLOCKS OF PLANES IN THE AIR
Many minor Accidents, lie BIoUe
Crashing Into Telegraph role
/ aud Latham Comes Close to
DroppInn Into Crowd.


! NEW YORK oct g9.-,Spscial Telegram
J Claude GrahamC- White, the English fllcr
, won tho James Gordon Bonnctt interna-
tionsl trophy at the international aviation
( tournament today With Il goes cash
prize Of &,OOO. The time made Tor the
! twenty rounds of the long course-a dts
! tancc Of 621 miles--will likely stand as a
mark 10 be flown at for some time to
come. He made the distance in twenty
mile wind IN | hour minute. t9t seconds
| This is flying at a rate OF more than
mile a minute over course which Is con
sidered SO dangerous that the visiting toams
lodged protest against H.
Late In the afternoon the three men OF
the American team appeared, although tile
wind was then blowing sixty miles an
hour They had delayed until the last nlin-
ute in the hope that it would moderate.
| ]. Armstrong Drexel, the Phlladelphian,
made seven rounds OF the course In 2s
minutes. 4.OS seconds
John g. Molssant Of Chicago covered only
six rounds in % minutes, 26,57 seconds.
Both men saw that II was hopeless to try
to compete against the fast time made hy
Grahame-White earlier In the day, when
they were handicapped by the necessity Of
fighting a gale
Moissaut was blown off the course in his
last turn TO the home stretch, taking a
wide circle over the grandstand and land
ing OH the field.
Charles Hamilton, the driver of the 100
horse power Hamiltonian, managed 10 Eet
in the air twenty-five minutes before the
bomb sounded the hour OF S:S2, when entries
closed. But in the face OF the wind he
could not cross the starting line before the
bomb exploded.
James Radley, the remaining member OF
the English team also got up, but too late
to compete. lie returned to earth again
and went to the stable.
Latham and Moissant ascended again at
4aO o'clock Although Grahame- White had
won the cup for England, aviators were
anxious 20 finish their twenty laps OF the
course
The mornings running Of the event was
sensational in the extreme. Two men,
Alfred lie Blanc and Walter Brookins, Of
the French and American teams respee-
lively. met with accidents. Running out Of
gasoline lie Blanc lost control Of his flyer
and crashed into a telegraph pole. lie cut
off the pole sharp and smashed his ma-
chine II will be useless for some time
to come. He escaped with slight injuries
Brokins driving a Wright baby racer, had
engine troubles just as he got up. -Four
Of the eight cylinders missed fire and,
lacking driving power, the plane crashed 10
the EARTH
All Kinds of Trouble.
Brookins was painfully, but not danger
ousy hurt. Alexander Ogilvie. the Eng
lshman, completed the twonty laps but in
the slow time of hours, 6 minutes, s6%
seconds He had engine trouble snd had
been forced TO descend to cooper" up his
engine. Hubert Latham, In his Autoinette,
gave a brilliant performance for fifteen
rounds when the wind swept his machine
out OF control. lie came Within ten feet
of the crowd that ran frantcally to shelter
on the grandstand lawn. He refused to
continue longer. fearing that an accident
might occur when rounding the dangerous
.. curve just before reaching the grandstand.
He had not been making time TO equal
le that of Grahame- White
Id In the afternoon Hoxsey and Johnstone
the two representatives OF the Wright
stable, made a Night for altitude. The high
~ wind prevailing made II dangerous to con-
2k TRUE, however, and they returned to earth
ey after being In the air about half an hour
- in which time they mounted 90 about 2ceq
feet They made spectacular descents, vol
IL planning to the ground from this altitude.
IF Both were cheered Tor their daring by ths
X spectators.
/, shortly after O'Clock Hoxsey and John
- stone again tried for altitude The condi.
~ tions we're against them, however, and It
nd was not thought they would attempt uiucn
"a more Lldn an eNOlDiuUn Qlght
In the last hsif hour Of time and In the
final desperate effort to retain the cup.
'5' Moissant the daredevil Nicaraguan col
les onel from Chicago. shouted: I'm going 10
give Grahsme-Whitc a race"
wo DrexsI Also Ready.
de Then I'U go TOO said Armstrong DroNel
who made a worlds record for altitude on
the ether side Of the water that stayed
until Wynmalen beat H.
Little Charlie Hamilton pale and with.
do ing with p!eurisy, heard his American
mates were to start
Pull her out" he yelled at his meohan.
icians. "In go too"
at He had engine trouble however tn.
III last moment he could make an official
start was 3;32 .. m. His mechanics worked
Desperately 70 get him away, y hop.
IT, Hamilton don't try Il, said James Bradle,
Der Of tho English team. III he tries to fly ir
bit this siXty-two-mile-a -an-hour gale with tina,
machine OF his, hen break his neck"
After he had been patched up al IN,
nj hospital after his fam lie Blanc STAMPED
by up and down lu front Of tho hangers suo<
% ing cigarette, Now and then he turnes
20 scowl at one Of his mechanicisns The,
vas avoided their masters eye and went abou
no with the air Of a dog that has hsen csugh
robbinE a nest
lov He said Le Blanc, gesturing with M
- cigarette. He did A. He did not give m
IT'D enough OF the petrol"
,ay Then II was not altogether the danger
,ed Gus course that caused your accident
oh Ia Ia" replied lie Blanc IN broker
English.
ote "a did not say the course caused m,
rly fall. The course Is bad; yes desperately
M bad. But II am an aviator, SIR, ] mai,
the round in no trouble from the dangerou
Wla Ia al la