The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-01
UP STA FEET.
JOhnstOne Sets New Worlds AL
ii ude Record
At the international Aviation
Meet at Belmokt Park.
WINS PRIZE OF $4,000.
Spe ed Event friZe Awarded to
Claude Grahame-Whit
MOisant Carries Off Largest
Amount OF Frize Money.

New York. Nov. IA baby
Wright roadster, with Ralph John
stone of Kansas City, Mo-. at the
wheel, glided gracefully to earth in
the twilight with the close of the in
ternational aviation meet at Belmont
park with the Paragraph registering a
new worlds record for altitude The
little machine of only 35-horsepoWer
had been up 9,714 feet, exceeding by
52S feet tn height attained in France
on october by Henry w Wynmalon
of Holland.
Johnstone's successful climbing feat
was not the only notable incident of
the closing day of the meet Claude
Grahame-White of England sharpened
the sporting appetite with challenge
to John B. Moisant of Chicago for an
other race from the park around the
statue of Liberty in New York harbor
and return. Moisant, who won $4,000
for his fast flight around the statue,
ignored the challenge.
At the close of a speed race later
with j. A. D. McCurdy of the Curtiss
team, Grahame-White's propeller
snapped, his monoplane dug into the
ground in front of the grandstand,
turned turtle and buried the aviator
underneath. Grahame-White was un-
injured and won the race.
Moisant's winning of the $4,000
distance prize offered by the Aero Club
of America, was the other big event
of the day He travelled approximate
ly 81 Il miles in two hours. In land
ing after winning the event he smashed
his propeller and broke a running
wheel, but escaped unscathed.
The Wright brothers were jubilant
at Johnstone's success. It was the
first time he had ever flown their tiny
roadster. AS the crowds about the
judges stand cheered and cheered the
announcement of Johnstones wonder
full air feat, J. Armstrong Drexel
e-xx- cd = 70 L, i
battling in the clouds with the Wright
pupil, but had attained "only $3.50"
feet. Johnstone had easily won the
grand altitude prize of $4,000.
Moisant, in the same machine with
which he won the Statue of Liberty
flight Sunday, won the two-hour dis
tance race for a purse of $500. He
had been around the course Sc times,
a distance of ST Y miles. when the fin
ish flag was put up. Latham was sec
ond and Simon third
Unofficial total winnings of aviators:
Moisant (America. Bleriot), $15,S00.
Grahame-White (England, Farman
and Bleriot), $9,700.
Johnstone (America, Wright),
$6,675.
Latham (France. Antoin ette), $3.250
/ Aubrun (France. Bleriot), $3.50.
McCurdy (America, Curtiss), $1,100.
Radley (England, Bleriot), $1,o50.
Drexel (America, Bleriot), $500.
/ Simon (France, Bleriot), $3.50.
| De Lesseps (F'rance, Bleriot), $500.
/ Brookins (America, Wrfght), $3.50
Barrier (France, BlerioD, 500.
! Mars (American, Curtiss), $10O.
Willard (American, Curtiss). $50.
/ Drexel Is Disguised.
New York, Nov. II. Armstrong
! Drexel announced last night at a din
ner given to a number of fellow avia-
tors that he would resign from the
Aero Club of America ''in disgust be-
/ cause of the ruling prohibiting
/ Grahame-White from a second trial at
/ the $4,000 Statue of Liberty fight
won by John B. Moisant. He gave out
a letter of protest in part as follows:
Il wish to protest against the action
of the Belmont park aviation commit
tee in refusing to allow Mr.. Grahame-
White, the Englishman. to fly sec
ond time for the Statue of Liberty
prize. Their doing so is contrary to all
traditions of sport and honor, and as
an American familiar with conditions
of sport in Europe, I can not allow an
act of such unfairness to pass without
protest.
/ by their decision they have barred
such fiiers as Radley, the Englishman,
| and Aubrun, the Frenchman, from
/ competing.
'As a general result it will be said
! in Europe that the Liberty prize was
( juggled into an Americans hands. This
will only be the plain truth, according
to the conditions of the contest as un-
! derstood by the aviators.
"The plain fact is that the commit
/ tee, seeing a chance to win the prize
| for an American, went back on their
word, and by closing the contest and
| the official meeting, stopped two men,
De Lesseps and Grahame-White, from
| trying again and the other seven from
| competing"
The dinner, he explained, was in no