The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-30

New York. october 90. Claude Gra-
hame- White, flying for the Royal Aero
Club OF the United King dom. liftedthe
Gordon Bennett international speed
trophy from the custody Of America
to-day in the fastest time eyer Gov
cred for the full distance o 90 kilo-s
metres (62.14 milesls around q five
Skilometre course. His average speed
was a fraction better than sixty-ons {
miles an hour, and his efast test lapsMaa :
q minutes 55.77 seconds, but the p-4
tain OF the French i eam. Alfred Lee
Blanc. flying IN q similar machine, O.
100 horsepower. Bleri o t mon plane, was
making each lap on an avera go Of
twenty seconds faster than Grahame-S
White. and would have won the cup IL
he had not met with a disastrous ac-
cident In his last ap, when he had
the race seemingly we'll In hand. His
first lap was a newSworld' g record In it,
fselfi for five kilo 0stres-2 minutes
1853 seconds-but he succeeded It With
a lap done IN 2 minutes 44.33 seconds.
III Leblanc was running foye ,8 the !
wind sunde r4 full p over at an estimated
speed OF eighty miles an hour when
THE feed pipe from his gasolene tank
ito his motor loosene ed under the tnces-
SAINT jarring Of the ngine, and he sud-
denly found himsel with nothing but
"
helpless and panic strick Gen.. He tried
to lift his planes so that the Ia ST few
drops Of gasolene might liter down
into the ngineS and lend him strength
enough j to make a land Ing. His steer
age way was gone: and w hen o puff
Of wind caught him he drifted side
ways still driving at tremen1 ouas
speed, and crashed foremos still to -
telegraph pole.
Sr,sa V1nf1E
The pole was twenty lou Inches
thick. but he broke It IN three pieces
as IL 1t 4 had been toot hpic k. he
chassis and steel NJ ichs incloses the (
motor were complelyF g ruHpl ed. but
1.-The solid steel of he motor II sell WI rs
stood the shock. Had ( Blanc hi a the
Epole in, any other manner It Is d. hlcults.
to see how he could nave possip ply
ESCAPED death. s. &,
Y h58ssss Ills accident was accepted on every
! hand 3 with the creates Z regret. g r, AZ
lshame Nv lite, he w ner.' "a dmttt ed %
Leblanc would have w on The ceS ans
would have esta blished a wor DIS srec-s'
FORD even hotter than HI 81 oN'n except
|for his mishap q. Ri s;
Charles X. Ianil ton. Of the Amer
tcan taam m, was anthusia tic.s lie Blanc
lis the best track driver In the wor rid s's
The said. 1.-The way 10 TOT IL I ose turns
was q marvel. Graha w hite would
! never have been In It except for Les
Blanc,s accident. and no a nlertcan N - IN
chine had "a chance wi h. him. q am
1 going to throw my machine Into the
/ scrap heap and buy q lerio az he fore St
leave this track. he lbi plane Is cut
4 OF date, and we mi ght us Well admit
s.it.'.
Hamilton WITH challenge for TIL gu
/ next YEAR, The Wright brothers WI
i also 3build a new rac Ger and 70 9 ftarsit .f
John 3. A[oisant will be a ird #chal
langer ..You bet" he said. q m goina
4 after ii. II u don't bring 1t back soma
d other American WI We
nrOo kins injured. isSls
AN IN addition to Blanc's accident, tos5
lEday ~ as ma rre6 by Il sc rio,s m sha n 10
q WAITER Rrooklns, OF the RICH stas ~
Who had taken UP he ne ~ n.y.
C,ontfnuedo on Tenth ag 9.