Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-31
HOXSEY GOES UP
10,575 FEET; LIFTS
ENDURANCE MARK
Pasadena Manbird, Thinking He
Had Risen 1855 Feet, Dis
appointed When He Lands
BEACHEY IS WRECKED AGAIN
Machine No. 13, Damaged
Wednesday, Drops Fifty Feet
and Is Badly Smashed
SUMMARY OF RESULTS

SUMMARY OF RESULTS
Speed cOntest-Iames Radley in Bleriot
monOplane won; lime for five laps around
one and three-quarter-mie course, min
utes. 33 Is seconds. Best lap, l minute
and 5S seconds. Phil o. ParmeIee in Baby"
Wright biplane second; time, 10 minutes,
&c 40 seconds; best lap, = minutes and
seconds.
Special duration-Arch Hoxsey, hours
lG minutes and so seconds in air new
American record. HoNsey started seven
minutes before the hour for opening days
program by special permission OF the
judges, but time for duration fight of day
began at 1 o'clock. Total tme in air reck-
oned from time he left ground.
Duration regular--HoXsey, in Wright
chine, won with > hours 8 minutes and 30
seconds. Parmclee second with hour 2i
minutes and 10 seconds. Latham third
with 81 minutes, and 25 seconds. Brookins
fourth with Al minutes and 2b seconds. Ely
hfth with rs minutes and 95 seconds. VIII
lard 36 minutes and 30 seconds in air. Rad
ley I6 minutes and 30 seconds. Curtiss
minutes and 10 seconds. Martin. amateur,
: minutes and seconds.
Passenger carryins-Parmelee and Knab-
seconds Brookins and Neuner second with
20 minutes and % seconds. Parmelee and
Knabensbue third with II minutes and 40
seconds, and Latham and Curtiss fourth
with 6 minutes and II seconds.
Special daily prize for crossing the finish
line (cither way) before grandstand-Lath-
am won, 20 points; BrOoSiDs second, 10
poipts; Ely third, I6 points; Parmeee, 10
points; Radley, 6 points; Gurtiss, points.
Bomb throwins-WiIlard won with II
points. ELY made points.
Exhibition lap over one and thrce-Guar-
ter-miIe course by Curtiss in new racer
Time / minute az So seconds.
Arch Hoxsey climbed into the skies
Yesterday to smash his own worlds
record of 11,474 feet and to break the
American endurance record of 3 hours
and IL minutes. He glided to the earth
with mis- barograph reading lO51o feet,
lust S99 feet short of the record made
by him Monday, but he established IL
new American record for endurance.
He was off the ground 3 hours ana ID
minutes and so seconds.
Hoxseys flight was confined to a
space circling above Dominguez field
but there were periods when those
whose eyes were following his progress
lost him in the blue depths above them.
He left the ground at 12;5l o'clock anu
came down at Ali o'clock. HIS ascen~
sion was a sweep in circles into the
heavens before most of the spectators
had arrived. The crowd present cheered
him as he left the ground.
SwifE he swept upward in graceful
curves that compassed the arena until
gradually his machine dWlndled INTO a.
speck, its propelers flashing III the sun
at times and serving as guide to Its
location.
Though Parmelee swept over the
grand stand and scattered carhatlonS
into the crowd, and Broolins and ELY
sped around tho course, the spectators
never tired in looking for Hoxsey.
Hoxscy had no more interested spec
tator than Chief Iodine, pioneer scout,
who has lived in California seventy
years, and who was seeing the BIRD
men for the first time-yet the indian
gave no sign of the thoughts Whlch
flashed through his mind. He was the
bearer of a message to Glenn Curtiss.
inviting him to San Diego, and later
was permittcd to sit in the aviator
scat of the bplane.
In a secluded portion of the grand
stand, unnoticed by the thronS on
whose lips were his name, sat HoNsey
mother, her tired, strained eyes ana
anxious. upturned face following tho
progress of her boy through tho blue.
Shortly after 4 o'clock commotion
rippled over the grandstaud. "HoNsey
is coming!" the crowd murmured.
DOES STUNTS FOR CROWD
Down from the heavens dropped tho
bfplanc of Hoxsey. It took shape and
grew larger as it swept in graceful
CIlI,yps above tho field.
Instead of landing at the conclusion
of his flight, HoXseY glided over the
field and grandstand and at other
times swooped quickly to within lew
feet of the ground. The crowd stood
and cheered wildly. waving hats ana
| handkerchiefs until he had passed on
his way around the course.
| HoXscy came to earth with long
Glide that swept him within a few rect
of his starting place. He received q
tremendous ovation. His tlrst words
were a caution TO the judges to guard
the records of his flight that no mis-
| take in their reading might be MADE
IT got what / went after he crlcd
boyshly. but his eyes anXlously foi-
| lowed the judges as they bore his
sealed bcrographs to the field house
| for reading.
When they told him he had failed
| to eclipse his Mondays record no ap-
peared surprised and disappointed. IN
mid air, with tears brought py lho
| cold Thinning his eyes the aviator had
read his flight as 1850 feet 2ooo feet
in excess of what he had really made.
Up there in the blue the daring man
| bird had also fought a silent fight for
| his life against new and strange foe.
| At an elevation of 1000 feet he ran into
air holes or spaces that seemed 10 be
vacuums. and in which his engine al
most went dead. Several times he
dropped many feet.
Nothing daunted by this obstacle to
his progress, hitherto new to Califor-
MIA. but found III the cast, Hoxsey
fought a silent fight and kept climbing.
"It was not very cold,' he said after
| tho flight. Not as cold as ON my pre-
vious flights But the air holes l ran
frontIpuad nm ?ara SeVeal