The Cairo bulletin., 1910-04-11
WILLARD AND cURTiSs HAVE
MlsAAPs AT THE MEMPHIS
MEETING.
CRASHED INTO FENCE
Damage Not Great and Neither
Aviator Badly Hurt--"Hud''
Mars Springs the sensa-
ton OF the Meet.

II tldents and q spectacular two mile
flight by Bud Mars and Glenn Cur
J tiss as headliners, the aviators at
the Tri State air grounds presented
| the banner program Of the entife
meet yesterday afternoon.
i Charles +. Wizards accident was
1.-THE big sensation of the day.
Glenn H. Curtiss, while making Il
Handing crashed into the arena fence
and broke the front plane and sup
lporting wires Of his biplane, Miss
Memphis
| j. G. Mars sprang into fame In the
Iaviation world and brought the
lcheering thousands to their feet
when he circled the track twice at
height Of over three hundred feet and
then added new laurels to his crown
by tying the worlds quick starting
record, made by Curtiss Thursday.
Both accomplishments are made
all the more sensational by the fact
that Mars used the small four
Icylinder, twenty-five horse power BIZ
Iplane, while Curtiss, In making the
record and in circling the track, used
his big racer biplane. This machine
has eight cylinders and develops fifty
horse power.
| Wizards accident put his machiGe
icomnletely out of commission.
The accident occurred on his first
hight.
1 Starting from the aviation shed h
attempted to circle the track lie haa
reached d heighth Of two hundred and
Iifty feet when his engine stopped 1t
Iauiekly started again, however, ami
the aviator headed for the curve.
Willard Wrecks Machine.
| While making the turn the engine
again stopped
| The biplane shot through space
like thunderbolt, every plane spread
for the glide. Striking the ground 1t
lifted and crashed into the fence
Willard was slightly injured white
the front plane Of his machine was
wrecked. Braces, lifting plane con
troller and the bamboo frame were
shattered To splinters.
i The aviator crawled out of the
wreck and was surveying the damage
when newspaper men arrived upon
he scene.
Please don't take picture OF
this" he called out, 1T won't help
matters any. I'm not hurt, anyway"
But the photographers were not OF
this opinion, as for several seconds
the battery Of cameras poppel like
machine guns.
4 Ten minutes later the second acci-
dent of the day occurred
curtiss Goes INTO Fence.
Starting from the identical spot
that willard made his getaway on
his ill.ated flight. Glenn Curtiss, in
his Gordon Bennett cup defender lett
the ground and followed the same
lcourse.
i Passing high above the wreck of
i Willard's machine at the three-quar-
i ter mile post, Curtiss headed south
i toward the horse show arena.
i He shut off his engine for high
glide. The hipIane struck the ground
with great force, swung around anil
lheaded directly for the fence. Cur
tiss shouted warning to the specta
i tors, who scattered Just as the col
llsion came. When several feet from
! aftt frrNn
the machine and threw his force
against it, saving ii, no doubt. from
a fate similar To Wizards.
His lifting plane was badly twisted
and several bamboo supports broken
Firty-five minutes work By corps
Of machinists sufficcd TO put Miss
Memphis in flying condition again.
Il can't imagine what caused my
Iaccident," said Curtiss. IF had hal
any warning that 1t was coming. |
could have guarded the machine from
any damage whatever"
Curtiss had rolled along on the
ground for fifteen or twenty feet be
fore Miss Memphis" began to mis-.
behave,
Mars Springs Surprise.
But "Buddf Mars sprung the SUR
price of the day
He was the first 10 appear ON the
field He rolled his machine from the
|aviation shed to the arena, and then
took short flight over to the north
end of the field.
Mars, whose first pubic flight wss
made in Memphis Thursday has been
anxious to circle the track for sew
Ierai days. lie was advised not TO
make the attempt BY other aviators,
as his machine is only fouycylinder.
TWENTY-FIVE horse power affair, and
was not considered pcwertnl enough