The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-10-30
GRAHAM-WH|TE
CAPTURES GREAT
BENNETT 7n0PH|
MAN-BiRDS IN GREAT CONTEST
YESTERDAY. MADE SOME
NEW RECORDS.

6rookins Was injured, While Leblanc
tA Daring Frenchnan, Was Also
Hurt in Faii-5ritish Aviator Wins
Cup Held BY an American.
Aviation Field, Belmont Park, N.
T., Oct. 29.-The English team, rep
| resented NY Claude Graham White,
has won the international aviation
cup The announcement was made
this afternoon.
Belmont Park. Oct. 29.-Unless
| some aviator more daring and skill
full than Claude Graham-White can
prove his worth today, the Gordon
Bennett International speed trophy
will pass from American into Eng
lish hands. The pick of the French
challengers and American defenders
are now in hospitals, and the fastest
time shown on the course is Whites
by large majority.
| Hubert Latham was SO frightened
when the wind almost blew him into
| the crowd that he quit in the fif-
! teenth round The wings of his ma
caine passed within ten feet OF the
| heads of hundreds of people, precipi-
tating near-panic.
PoImnnt D9rlf NJ W 90 dho
big day of the international aviation
meet, with the Gordon Bennett cup
/ flights for the worlds aviation cham
plonship in prospect, opened this
morning with clear skies and mOder-
ate breeZes blowing. There were
many signs of early activity about
he aerOdrome.
Rules of the international race per-
nit the start at $50 in the morning,
with the finish at ) O'Clock in tie aft
/ ernooh. Each contestant must fly 20
laps over the course, q distance Of
62.10 miles, and only one start is al
lowed. provided the aviator crosses
the starting line.
Machines and Ayiators.
The entries and machines are as
follows:
American team-Walter BroOkins,
60-70horsepower Wright machine;
Charles X. Hamilton, 110-120-horse-
power "Hamiltonian; J. Armstrong
Drexel, 50-horsepower Bleriot. Substi-
tutes are Mars, HoXsey and Mois-
SAINT.
British team--Claude Granam-
White. 5O-horsepower Bleriot: James
Radley, same; Alexander Ogilvie, 4
cylinder Wright racer.
French team-Alfred Leblanc, 100
or 50-horsepower Bleriot; Hubert La
than 100horsepower Antoinette.
Pickpockets Busy.
A large squad of New York detcc-
tiyes were here today watching for
crooks 1t was learned that jewelry
worth $4,000 was stolen Wednesday
from the handbag of the wife of
well-known anker. Other minor rob
berries also have Ieen reported.
Alfred Leblanc Hurt.
Grailam-White, the Englishman,
was liIc llTSl tO SlItl, SctllHS away
about nine minutes after the opening
gun He finished seven laps at ali
average speed of mile minute.
Leblanc, the Frenchman, was next
and ne made the worlds record in
the first round, doing it in two min
utes forty-fivc and a fraction seconds,
which is nearly 90 miles an hour
He came down during the 10Th lap,
however, sustaining slight injuries.
His machine was completely wrecked.
"a Graham-White's Finish.
r.ite finished in the elapsed time
Of one hour one minute and four and
three-hundredth seconds. He made
three extra laps to provide for penal
ties that might be imposed.
Ogilvie another Englishman, was
TIE third starter.
Brookins Also Hurt.
Walter Brookins, the American, |
went scarcely thousand feet in his
Wright biplane before he lost control
of the machine, which was complete
ly wrecked. Brookins was badly |
shaken up, tut no bones We're broken.
Oglvic was nearly out of the race. !
His machine came down suddenly, |
but he was not injured. Examination
of LeBlanc's machine showed that it
was not hurt as badly as was at first
thought, but it cannot be repaired
for the rest of this meet.
OgiIvie Finishes Race
Latham finished his ninth lap in
80 minutes and Is seconds, his aver |
age speed being close to a mile a
minute.
Ogilvie was practically out of the
race when he came down in the 18th
lap, but started again, finishing the
course in two hours, six minutes and
a fraction.
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