Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-10-26
Hampton, Phoebus and Old Point
He BATTLES SNOW
ABOVE THE CLOUDS
(Continued from First PageJ

lost completely, and again Gin ing
| bright in the sunlight.
Stidd.enly the Antoinette began to
Gamer Ike Il buck and wing dancer.
l He had started 10 come down when
| he felt the rain and had been caught
| In wind flaw Tossed TO one size
and the other, frs up and then
down, he tilted his planes and shot
down In sweep as swift as any raj
con. In a matter Of seconds the rush
of his descent had taken up the ha.
mile between him and the earth and
he was hidden behind a club ot trees
| Ely. in a Curtis biplane. went out
to reconnoiter. and found Latham
| with nothing worse than a puncture~
wing and a broken skid.
| Cross Country Race.
The last event of the day was full
of uncertainty and suspense. With
very little preliminary maneuvering,
| f. w. Radley. Of the British team.
| flashed over he line IN a B'arict and
vanished into the east before it was
! known to any but the judges that he
had startad in the cross country race
of twenty miles to a captive balloon
| ten miles east of he course and back
again. in less than seven minutes
word cane back that he had rounded
the balloon. His time seemed incred-
IDLY swift
Radley did the twenty miles at bet
[ ter than sixty miles an hour. His eX-
! act time was 10 minutes As 2-5 sec
Cnds
Moissant. in his passenger carrying
Bleriot. started almost as Bradley fin
shed and was shortly followed by Nc
Curdy IN a Curtis biplane and Draxel
| in a Bleriot, at intervals of approx
| mately one minute. All three of them
got lost and DreXel and McCurdy
never finished.
Moissant came back in very slow
time
More interest attached to the first
appearance tcdsy oI the new Wright
racer, which was uncrated last night
and assembled this morning. With
Ory lie Wright in the pilots chair. II
was given TWO trials. one in the morn
ing and one in the afternoon.
Garris, OF the French team. caught
its time for one lap in the morning
rial at | minute % seconds, and In
The afternoon trial at l minute zS
-econds. These unoficials figures are
t. be compared with those given out
ny the Judges today for the fastest
lap made yesterday by Auburn in a
Bier OF, | minute ~ seconds.
Women in Flights.
Quite a little bevy of adventurous
women went up for short flights dur
Ing the morning and afternoon. Count
Del .esSeps took up four during the
day. and Miss Eleanor Sears. of Bos-
ION. made another trip with Graham
White, at a height of about $50 feet.
for two rounds of the course. Allan
| \. Ryan, son of Thomas +. Ryan. anu
chairman of the committee on ar
engagements. was another enthusiastic
passenger in the car of HOxsey.
He came down exuherant with de-
light.
Tomorrow begins the first elimina-
| ton heats in the trials for the Gordon
Bennett International trophy.
Summaries Of Events.
Summaries:
II f+tSi hoOtfH dilituuc Isl. Dtlt--
! seps tBlerioD. 5,39l feet: Hoxey
(Wrighp. second, 5,7s6 feet; John
stone entered. but forgot his bao-
| graph and was unplaced.
Second hourly altitude-F'irst. John
stone (Wr ghD, 1903 feet. a new
American record: Hoxsey (Wrightl,
second. 1889; Latham (Aantoinette),
| third. 3.772
First hourly distance-First. La
| than (An,oinette), 10 laps. penalized
one lap for fouling a pylon; time. 81
minutes Sc As seconds. Graham
White (Farman). second. two laps. 6
minutes Sc 2-5 seconds. No third.
Second hourly distance-First. Ora
ham-White (FaImsn biplane and
Bier OF monoplane). IA laps, time. IL
minutes 6 Is seconds. Mars (Curtis),
second. 10 laps. penalized two laps
for fouling pylCas: time. % minutes
20 is seconds. NcCurdy (Curiisl
third. - laps: time. q minutes 20 Is
seconds
Totaliza;ion OF duration-Hoxset
Wright and tombstone tWrighD. tied
for first place with two hours: third.
Ia ham tAntoinette). enc hour
| Cross cCuntry-Won bv Radlcv
| 9Hlerot; elapsed time. 10 minutes
IS - seconds Second. Mo.ssant
fBlerictD. elapsed time. IS min1tes
2e seconds. DrexeI and McCurdy did
no, faish.