Arizona republican., 1910-10-29
AMERICAN RECORD BROKEN
High Mark in This Coun- try is Now 8471 Feet. Teams Selected to Con test For the Bennett Cup. Hamilton a Defender.

New York, Oct. 28.-The crowd at
 Belmont park today was all for Ralph
 Johnstone, when, from the middle
 island village of Long Island. a fifty
 five mile course, he brought back a
 new American record of S,471 feet all
 titude. This is the second he has
 added to his string at the interna-
 tional meet.
 T tell you what, boys" Johnstone
 said, when he landed, it was just
 the mercy of Providence that saved my neck. When I thought l was within touching distance of a new worlds record I forgot all about the wind and began to reach out for more height Then suddenly l said to myself, Young man, you better see how much gas you have got It's the truth that I just had enough to turn over the two propellers. When I kept her nose up, the juice ran down into the engine. She coughed minute. I pointed down, lost my fuel and she began to miss.
 Tt was just like shooting the chutes First I'd take a header with the power off. and when the wind began to carry me out of control I'd point up a bit, get a little headway, run on the level for hundred yards. then dip again. was not much scared until I got down toward the earth and saw what gale there was. Then I was frightened for fair. The only spot I could find to land on was a little patch not three times bigger across than the stretch of my wings.
 While tossing pennies with myself, the wind turned me clean around and landed me front-end backwards, but that is just what saved me. If Il had come down head first, the wind would have picked me up. tipped me over and smashed me to pieces"
 What fluttered the hangars far more than Johnstone's narrative, though, was the selection by the Aero Club of America of the American team to defend the Gordon Bennett speed trophy. It had been intended to narrow the choice by elimination trials, but the wind and weather forbade. Hamilton, with his 110-horsepower "Hamiltonian" Drexel, with his 50-horsepower Bleriot, | and Brookins, with a new Wright | racer, were named by the election.
 Curtiss. who brought the cup to this country, thus has no part in it.
 The substitutes are Mars of the | Curtiss team, Moissant with a Bleriot | and Hoxsey of the Wright team.
 The French team consists of La tham, with a 100 0horsepower Antoi- 1 nette; Le Blanc, with a 100-horse- | power Bleriot; Aubrun, with a 5O- Bleriot; Simon and Bar 1 rier, each with a 50horsepOwer Ble- riot, for substitutes.
 For Great Britain, Grahame- White, 1 with a 100-horsepower Bleriot; Rad | ley, with a 50-horsepower Bleriot, | the team, with Ogilvie, for | the Wright company of Great Britain, | and McArdle, with a Bleriot, for sub- stitutes.
 Ther was no flight to the Statue | of Liberty today. because the wind | was too high. Moissant and De Les seps both tried, but neither finished. |
 Audemars. one of two men in the world who -dares to drive the tiny | Demoiselle, took his butterfly out in | too strong a wind and capsized In | to land from a height of l not more than ten feet he struck the | earth with the front wheel, bounced | into the air and ended by turning a | For a moment the ma chine stood tail uppermost on the tip of its nose, then turned slowly | over on its back. As the crowd | jumped to it's feet, Audemars leaped | out unhurt. He broke the propeller of the machine, smashed the right | wing and put the engine out of true, but the repairs will not be expensive
 The Statue of Liberty flight is still open for tomorrow and flights for the Gordon Bennett cup may begin any time after S:30 a. m.