New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-30
ALL CITY AT FLYING MEET
pinnesf of All Air Events Draws
Largest Crowd of Week.
THOSE WRIGHT TWINS AGAIN
Even the Gordon Bennett Race
Fails to Awe Them-Tne
Girl Proposition.

--,,o-. u,aSn.+ any 1,se STAYING in the CITY
-..-s.,-. ,s,,e-,-los1 was out st Belmont
park. They began going out carry III 'iie
-no-ninr. and they didn't stop soihg oul
until long after any began coming o~OA-
como we're very lucky and some werent L
.bef &c some saw the ACCIDENTS ANU sOiiie
sidr'- Il is variously estimated 'haL sumo
xrbere between eight-ninths ana hlne-Iehlhs
n. those who got there too late We're con-
,-.noed of the fact that they weren't get
So f,ll money Notwithstanding those who
came in on passes
80 - ,l1ev wanted TO see any one hurt.
Perish the thought But Just little eN-
-,.o-,ent YOU know-some one turning three
,,o,,-lete sonersaults, say. at the height
- . thousand feet, and coming down IN
ri. not much higher than that, anyway,
because then YOU couldn't see il very well
some OF them thought they were getting
excitement when those roguish t'yins. John-
,,one and Hoxsey. started to volplane
ea-thward. You can't keep those fellows
down It's hopeless.
No matter what grand event is holding
the crowds breathless in the lower atnlos-
phere. there they are, way up above the
world. swinging and swsying IN utter I'M
concern. And somehow or other they al
WAYS manage 10 keep all eyes turned
toward them. They're beastly selfish In
that respect. you know; but they're so su-
t,remelv oblivious that you simply can't get
sore al them.
Even the Gordon Bennett International
cup race couldn't fill them with sufficient
awe 10 keep them earth-bound- They went
aloft twice yesterday. and the crowds fol-
lowed each time
When You come right UP to il, there ism
much excitement in watching a handful OF
mechanical bugs chase time around a
course. Maybe it's exciting 10 do-Elenora
saws il IS. anyway-but the watching isn't
much. after you've seen il once The great
event is the altitude climb-everybody is
crazy about that.
Isn't il wonderful-really? The girl who
said that was out there for the first time
Yesterday. It wasn't what she said that
told Won that: II vas the way she said It
Every girl says il every time she goes,
hui after the first tine she leaves on the
little rlesdtng accent on the really" After
the first time she says really as If she
were saving. 1T is TO you, bat Of course,
4. ISN'T 70 ne. I've seen IL before"
Lots OF them have. If you've been going
there since the first day, you ought TO know
q third Of the crowd, at the very least
They go back Take the man with the
steamer TUG around him. He has been there
for three consecutive days. And the girl
who bears up under those great white furs
and the large yellow chrysanthemum, she
IS one Of the first Inhabitants, too.
The regulars were almost lost in the
thronc that was there yesterday The at
tendance should go down along with the
other record breakers Of the day II was
almost an oldtime racetrack crowd Tor
numbers all over again
one reason for its growth was Saturday
Saturday is always a good reason But the
real reason was that yesterday was the
biggest day OF the meet II was the day
Of The Gordon Bennett race. II was the
dav that decided whether the next inter
national tournament shall be in this coun-
ivy or in some other. 1t shall be in some
ether II shall be IN England
Cortlandt Field Bishop said that was due
70 the unpreparedness Of the American
team. The crowd didn't know collectively
10 what IL was due. They didn't much
care. But they knew that each man had
done the best he knew how, they knew
that Drexel didn't come down Just because
ne vzs beaten, they knew that Molsant
was showing his blood when he fought out
his long. hard twenty laps for second place
after the official watch had ceased 10 tick.
And a cheer followed him Gown the STANDS
each time that he glioed past