Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-11-01
NEW WORLD
RECORD FOR
HIGH FLIGHT

New York, Nov. 11.-With a big sen
sation Ralph tombstone closed the avi-
alton meet at Belmont park, the first
international aerial tournament ever
held in America. He broke the worlds
altitude record. Seated In the baby
Wright, a four cylindered biplane, he
SCARED into a cloudless sky to the
height of 9,714 feet.
The little American flag whipping
from a stanehion of his machine over
topped by this performance the aerial
zone attained in the former worlds
record air climb of 9,1S6 feet, made by
a Hollander, Wynmalen, in France on
Oct. 1 of this year.
1t was dark when he landed. Red
fire was planted and ignited on the
green field to guide him and J.. Arm
strong Drexel back to earth. Drexel
landed several minutes after John
stone, having made no mean upward
flight himself. He went up 1870 feet.
John b. Moisant added another notch
to his gufistock when he won the Aero
club distance race and $1,000 with
ffty-six laps to his credit. He made
the race in the fifty horsepower Bleriot
in which he defeated White
In his hundred horsepower Bleriot In
the fight from the statue of Liberty.
Moisant had no engine trouble or
difficulty of any other sort, but was
. Tagged to the ground by the commit
tee on his fifteenth lap. Rene Simon
of the French team had complained
that Moisant had fouled him by round
ing the pylons SO closely that Simon
had to come down to avoid disaster.
Moisant was penalized three laps for
this, but went on and won the dis
lance event. Latham, Simon and Bud
Mars also competed in this race.
A match race between Grahame-
White and John B. Moisant for a side
bet of $4,000 is assured. Grahame-
White issued the challenge when he
was still steaming because he was
beaten by Moisant in the statue of
Liberty flight Sunday.
A representative of the Moisant
camp said when the challenge was re-
peated:
IF Grahame-White means business
and will put up real money Moisant
will cover it."
later Grahame-W White made the chal-
lenge official. He offers to fly Moisant
to the statue of Litsssty and return
any afternoon this week. lie claims
that he is.the only one in the statue
of Lb6rt~ dight that observed the
Mics, for he holds that Moisant made
Ids start at almost A o'clock, when the
official time limit expired at 3:45 p. IN.
II notice." said White, chat. al
though the meeting was said to be Of
ffcdaily closed on Sunday, the grand
speed and grand altitude events are
still going on. Hence [ do not see
how the meet can be considered clos
ed. | hope that Mr.. Moisant's sport
Ing instincts will permit him to accept
my challenge"
The English aviator kept patiently
on through the afternoon giving dem
onstrations Of himself. 1t seemed i'm
possible for those to whom he talked
to understand the theory on which
Grahame-W White held that he should
have the right to run q one heat race
over again ii he happened to be de-
feated.
Suppose il comes the other way"
said II to him. Suppose the COM
Inittee let you run 1t oven and you bet
ter Moisant's time, will he then be
permitted to make another effort to
lower yours"
"Yer- bally Americans" said Mr..
Grahame- White, @den't understand the
principles of sport, what?'