The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-01
AVIATION MEET BREAKS UP IN
 A BAD SNARL
Millionaire Drexel Esp0uses Cause of English Flyer and Resigns From Aero Club of America
MOissant and Grahame- White do Not Seem Able to Agree On Terms For That Challenge Race
Especial from United Press.)

Especial from United Press.) New York, Nov. 1.-More aero planes than records were smashed at the second international aviation meet
 day, threatens to make American 'sportsmanshipp' by-word in
 Europe.
 The resignation of J. Armstrong Drexel. from the Aero Club of Amer ica because of what he termed a Claude Grahame-White from winning
 the S10,000 Statue of Liberty contest, meets with the approval of most of the aviatOrs which participated in the meet.
 Drexel, a millionaire sportsman, sacrificed time and money to return to his native land and periodically endeavor to win prizes for America. But it 'embittered him when he saw rules made, apparently, on the spur of the moment, that debarred foreign CTS from wrestling the big prize from John B. Moissant. Drexel attaches
 no whit of blame to Moissant. On
 the other hand, he praises this daring little American. who. like himself, sacrificed much to fight for his coun- try in the air.
 Grahame-white made himself very unpopular during the meeting but this did not excuse the aviation com mittee, it is contended, for framing rules that barred him from defeating MoiSsant.
 Liberty prize were very simple. They fixed Thursday, October 27, between the hours of 2.45 and 3.45 as the time aviatOrS must essay the flight, adding but one proviso that aviators, who participated, must have remain -l S -A some day previous to the statue flight Sunday, October 23rd. the second day of the meeting, the wind blew a gale, and flights were impos- sible. It was officially announced that. for that reason, the meet would Der 31. Up to Thursday, Grahame- White was the only aviator partici- pating in the Statue of Liberty flight,
 by making the necessary one hour flight. But on Thursday gale was blowing and the Statue of Liberty
 flight was out of the question. The
 aviation committee, thereupon, an
 nounced that the hour restriction was
 removed, and added that the flight
 might be made during any time of
 the meet. Spectators, newspapermen and aviators plainly heard the of ficfal announcement that Monday was included in this clause. There was
 no limit to the number of flights any
 aviator might make. On the other
 hand, it was generally understood
 that this limit was carefully omitted
 so that one aviator might make the
 keep up interest.
 Grahame-White protested against
 opening the flight to all, declaring
 he had endangered his machine to
 make the necessary flight of one
 hour. His protest was overruled.
 Last Sunday, in his 100 horsepower
 Bleriot racer, Grahame-White made
 the flight, going by a circuitous route.
 Moissant, in a machine he bought on
 the spot, flew straight. and defeated
 ute. Thereupon, Grahame-White inn
 mediately announced his intention of
 flying again. The committee then
 ruled that Monday would be closed
 as this was not a postponed day"
 but special day. despite the prev
 ious announcement that the Statue
 contest would continue over Monday.
 Over all protests, Moissant was
 awarded the prize. Grahame-White,
 indignant, then challenged Moissant
 to fly over again, for a side bet of
 s1o,O00 but cautiously specified that
 racer and Moissant was to use 50
 horsepower machine. Such 0 flight.
 cn equal terms as to course, would
 brve had a foregone conclusion, and Moissant naturally refused to accept
 the challenge, unless he was permit chine. "But I will meet the English
 man at any tin1e on equal .terms," ne said.
 Only one worlds record was estab- lished at the meeting. Ralph John
 stone, in a baby Wright biplane, late
 yesterday, ascended 9,714 feet, and.
 for an hour, was lost to view in the clouds. The former worlds record
 was 9,186 feet, held by Wynmalen,
 the Dutch flyer.
 Thirteen aeroplanes, however, came to grief during the course of the meet, Moissant leading, with four wrecked Bleriots.
 Moissant led all the aviators in prizes, though the combined winnings of the Wright camp were in excess of those of the Chicagoan Grahame-
 of the meet by annexing the grand Coupe Internationale d'Aviation, the worlds championship speed contest. Most of the aviators have gone to Baltimore, to participate in the flying meet in that city.
 London. Nov. 1.-The London morn
 ing papers made no editorial com
 ment on the charges of Claude Grahame-White and J. Armstrong Drexel. that Grahame-White was ac- corded unfair treatment at the Inter- national Aviation meeting in New York. In Paris. however, all print Grahame-White's and DrexePs charges. in full, under sympathizing
 headlines, and appear to accept, with out question, the charges of the avia- tors. that the rules were "juggled" so that the Englishman could not win.