The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-23
Hoxsey, Grahame-White and
MoiSant Win First
Day Prizes.
TOD SHRWER IS HURT
American Avlators the Chief
Flgures-0nly a Small
Crowd Turns Out

ten 10 twelve mile wind and mud that
was ankle deep didn't make for hlR
attendance when the International
Aviation Tournament opened NJ Belmont
Park yesterday afternoon. the very
unrIliness OF the elements yesterday
probably will help ~ swell the crowds
from to-day on Weather OF no weather.
~ the crack Of the gun NJ 80 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon hiplanes and mono
planes began To slosh upward through
the fog
The steady downpouT and the i'm
preston about town that M" opening
of the meet had been postponed hecauss
Of the wind and rain kept the attendance
to about 2.OOO
IL was an American day claude
Grahsme- White. the English aviator.
was ou' early and often during the first
two-ihirds % the afternoon and flew hIs
Farman with commendable persIstency
against the storm throughout great
part Of the afternoon. winning the hourly
distance event Of the first hour of the
meet. Count de Iesseps made a short
Night in hts Bl@rIot and all hut lost h,s
wsv The mist and rain had him from
1he spectators during his second turn
81 The shorter course. wh"reupon hs
descended
Hut America doomed larger than Eng
land and France combined Arm
It rong Drrxel was the first 20 cross the
starting line after the meet had officially
opened. although Mr.. Grahame- White
a. The moment was IN the air making a
flight bei ween the appearance" nf Mr..
DrexeI and the earlier flights Of Capt.
Thomas Baldwin. = o Parmelee - the
Wright camp aud Tod Shriver whose
forenoon ascent Il Yesterday was made
less han three weeks after Shrver broke
hi Ieg by fall at Winning on. Del.
sHRIVER FALLS AND - HUHr.
Shriver had TO work his way to his
Cu1iss type machine On crmohes when
he took his seat IN tn. forenoon 20 make
a rryout flight lie had gone only the
length IL the field when the wind caught
his planes while they were tilted for
a turn and slammed him fifty feet TO ths
ground.
and 10 put il Pleasantly didn't help Mr..
Shriver's broken leg any Also broken
holt tore the flesh of his hip badly and
his face and hody were cut and bruiSsu.
The hospital service on thS field gave
him first aid aud Mr. ShTiveT then was
removed ~ IL. Nassau Hospital AT Mime
ola. wher,' he announced that he would
have a new machine all ready IN HE hangar
.dts No ~ by he wayb by Monday
PRIZE ToR MoIsANT
John u Moi-ant. the Chicagoan vnp
flew from Paris 10 London won S5Op.
the beat daily prize of yesterday. when
A. u lone entrant he made a Cru---'ountry
fisht INTO the mis-, He zipIed away
from the crowd east by south in q straight
lin. about twelve miles At "a guess from
the field. where he swung around and
returned without alighting until the
centre II the field was beneath his Bl"Tiot
again He was lost in the low hanging
rain clouds for about forty minutes and
was forty.iive minutes IA the air alto
ge'hsr u
Inasmuch a. Wilbur W1ghts retIceucs
- prOverbIal there was one bit 81 aviation
news that didn't fly across field 10 the
grand stands but which caused a stir
among the few airrnen that heard II
uOoD NEws FoE THE wRIGHTS PROM
BERLIN
Perhaps u will interest you 80 know
observed MIR. Wright lat. in the afternoon.
that Just before came out 20 the fold
| received a cable telling me that all our
suits for infringement of patent rights
have been decided IN oar favor IN tbs
German courts. The suits IN other Euro-
paan countries and America still are pend
ing
The news may not have sounded i'm
portant 20 the grand stands even had
they hear u But II concerned the
foreign fierz inasmuch a. II means hat
benceforth no Blerio' CuT1iss. Farinan
or IN fact any make Of machine that hass
adapted rhs wrights' wing warp and
other inventions can legally he flown iu
Germany. Mr. Wright yesterday se"rl-i
cont,ci.nt that che courts ~ America and
the other European countries would follow
Germany'- legal Lead
All Of which may hav" accounted for
the ,oy about 'fs Wright hangers yes'er-
dav and the readiness NJ Hoxrev. wh1
Won the altitude prize Of the day. john
stone and Parmelss u course about IN
tho rsinstorm The other hioTs OF y"s-
,.,day afternoon also vers Americans
Ely and McCurdy % tho Curtiss camp
CAPT Baldwin sTARrs OUT SARLT
The veteran Capt. Thomas B-;dwin.
whose yosru are 90 and weight 100 pounds.
an, the fret wings Of the morn nG skin- p
ming across the field Whom he Jew hts
DaohIn, from MincolA. seven miles away. q.
a. the Belmont Park hangar GctwsSn
md o'clock IN tho morning a; ms -
rnin,tte speed with the wind at ms back
40 halo 0 Shrivers iigh' ami fAli
,ouowed soon after this A. noon Par
rosles the nov. Wright pupil cams. 0ut 90
max. three aights around tho ?, kto-