The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-27
No New Records Are Made But the Bird Men Fly
 At Dizzy Speed
'HOXSEY AND TOMBSTONE
 FURNISH THE THRILLS
The Two Aviators Ascend To Great Height Late In the Evening and Come Down With a Rush
 and Are Not Hurt

New York. October 26.-when ousx u-- gan to settle on the aviation field at Bel mont park Long Island, this afternoon there were 12 aeroplanes in the air at once and when night shut down two of them were still lost in the black void above. There was no moon and 1t YVES by the almost imperceptible glow of the stars that they were first sighted wing ing their way back to earth.
 There he is," shouted one watcher, right up there above the center of the field against that brightest star."
 Indeed, something that hovered in the gloom like a bat could be seen growing momentarily larger. Presently there was another blot blacker than the blacl1ness of the background and both HoxSey and Johnstone aighted safely In mid-field. within few moments of each other.
 T don't know how high l was, but If was not higher up than Hoxsey I will never trust a barograph again. said Johnstone. q stayed up there until saw him start down and then I stayed some more to make sure twice.
 He was shiverng as he peeled off his sweater, his leather coat and his mufflers, for, though there had been no frost above the clouds today, he said lie had found the upper air even colder than it had been yesterday when a binding snow storm drove him down from plucky at tempt for new worlds altitude record. But Johnstone was mistaken. His baro- graph registered only 57s3 feet against 617s for Hoxsey.
 Cold Windy Weather
 A northerly gale that took all the warmth out of the sunshine delayed or caused the postponement of all the events today in this. the fifth day, of the inter- national aviation meet. The wind came up before the dawn and held all morn- ing at between 30 and 10 miles an hour. but it began to moderate in the afternoon and by 3:15 had gone down to IA miles an hour
 Just to show what could be done In bad weather Johnstone. of the Wright tearl. took up a steady biplane. Against the stiff wind he seemed to make almost no progress so stiff were the upper currexs. but down the wind he fairly whizzed. His performance put heart into tpe other aviators and doors were soon swinging wide and engines were warming up all along the line of hangars.
 Five starters were announced in cross-country race to a captive balloon 10 miles east of the course and return and four started. Latham iS a 50-horse power Antoinette was the first to cross ha and Q fled he xHipd La dart
 Aubrun followed him and after Auburn Drexel and Leblanc, captain of the French team. both in Bleriots. This was the first appearance of Leblanc. the "Schoolmaster of the Air
 Pupils Of Leblanc
 Both Auburn and Grahame- White and many other notable aviators are his pup ills. His airmanship seemed splendid as he shot low before the graNdstand on an even keel. straight for the mark, but Auburn beat the master, and for that matter the other contendq& AubIt5n's time was B minutes SIS seconds.
 Latham finished in 32 minutes 14.1 sec onds His speed down the wind in the first leg was prodlgious. The timer at the balloon reported that he coverti the 10 miles and passed the mark outbound in minutes. Later records showed that Aubrun did the same distance in minutes. The figures are unofficial. but they amazed those who heard them. Drexel was third in slow time and Le- blanc returned without covering the en- tire course.
 The cross-country race had hardly be- gun, when eight men went out for dis tance and two for altitude. That made 10, and two of the cross-country fiiers were still to return-12 in the air at once.
 Brookins, driving the Baby" Wright racer. made up all the distance he had lost in starting late. and soon led the field by two laps
 One after another of the competitors dropped out. and the field narrowed down to Parmalee of the Wright team, in his first appearance, Brookins in the Wright racer and Latham, who had immediately entered the contest on his return from the cross-country race. Brookinsr dropped out for no apparent reason and left first place safe for Latham. who had no trouble in tapping the standard Wright biplane. safe family horse. but no racer. and finished one round to the good.
 Keen Rivals In Air
 Hoxsey and Johnstone, in the keenest rivalry, were striving to out-soar each other. and the crowd grew fearful for their safety as the dusk gathered. Work CTS in the Wright quarters poured out lit tie puddles of gasoline on the field and lighted them for torches. Guided by these and twinking of the brilliant gas lamps in front of the hangars they found their way home.
 The Gordon Benpett elimination trials scheduled for this afternoon were post pcned and set for tomorrow morning at g o'clock Hamilton, Moissant. the Wright brothers and Glenn H. Curtiss made wig orous protests
 Mine o'clock is the very worst time in the day to fly" they told the avia- ton committee; "the wind always blows at 3 o'clock"
 The committee compromised and agreed to call the trials at-9 tomorrow, but with saving clause which permits any avia- tor to start when he chooses. providing only that he shall finish before 5:3o in the afternoon. This concession proved satisfactory.
 Moissant will enter in the elimination trials tomorrow and also in the special flight for S10.000 to the statue of Libertv in New York harbor and return He said tonight he should lay his course straight -----~~------~--~~~~-----,