The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-23
ENGLISH LEAD.
ALL AV|ATORS
Poor Flying Weather Keeps All
but the Hardest Bird Men
on the Earth.
GRAHAME-WHITE AHEAD
in INTERNATIONAL MEET
Heavy Wind and Dense Fog
Handicaps Contestants at
Belmont Park.
BY Associated Press.

by A6SOCldteQ fIeSS.
NEW YORK. Oct 22.-Claude Gre
hame- White. the Engishman. took hrst
place in the distance contest and in the
totaliZatlon OF duration at the interna-
tional aviation meet at Belmont park to-
day; an American. Hoxsey. Of the Wright
team, soaring highest into the scudding
mist: and another American, John 3.
testant who cared TO take chances on
twenty-mile cross country flight into the
teeth OF the wind and with the fog so
thick that he could not see the ground
after he rose $50 feet,
Moissants flight was a second demon
| stratlon-ooth his own-of the fact that
an airnan like seaman, can steer by
compass. without regard to the time Of
day or night foul weather or fair AS
on his trip from Paris to London. he
steered wholly by compass.
In point OF fact. Moissant, as observed
covered probably three miles more than
the course. although he Is not credited
with the excess
Only Six Try to Fly
No records were broken today: it was
a sufficient triumph to fiy at all in a per-
sistent fine rain. driven by a steady
twenty mine aviators at the park at
| tempted to fly.
Grahame- White. In a steady Farman
biplsne, keeping close to the ground and
successive hours dying for distance only.
| He was Just two hours I'm the air, and
Atty kilometers-3l OF miles-for each
| hour.
Moissant was second with fourteen laps
| for the first hour and fifteen for the sec
ond, respectively 21.75 miles and 2S.S
| miles.
He started late. and although he
gained I'm the straightaways. he lost at
the turns. and In the first hour was
| Ia
| inside the pylons.
Hoxsey Up in the Air.
None of the Wright team tried for
| distance. but Johnstone had engine trou-
BILE and HoXsey evidently found the cur
auey up Psesd rom sss oS height Of s eet
to more modest levels. Ely OF the Cur
tiss team also tried HI luck at height
and took second place for the first hour,
Hoxsey tried it again in the second
hour and did worse-e7S fee, this time.
Count de Lessee Lessepy s,a made sHt SIS s2S fee feet j.
another trial. EOS feet None OF them
liked it much up above.
In the main IT was contest between
the monoplane and the biplane., with
| the monoplane the swfter and the BIZ
plane the steadcr. None OF the gnome
revolving engines missed once during the
obliquc thrust four and eight cylinder en-
gines were all more or less troubled with
| faulty ignition,
! The altitude, distance and duration fig
ures made today entitle the first. second
and third place men to daily cash prizes
and win count In the percentage distri-
button of the profits at the end of the
nine days meet.
Flies Against Wind.
But one aviator dared the elements OF
! the early morning and ventured fight.
| This was Captain Thomas Baldwin. He
arrived In his .nfty-horsepower Curtisss
Park race track from the Garden City
aviation field. where his aeroplane has
been quartered.
The manner OF his coming was sensa
ional. He flew in the head OF a north
west wind In six minutes from the Gar
den City field at the rate OF more than
a. mile minute,
gotten his goggles. The flight was the
second across country for the meet
Frlsbio making similar one last night
Only Accident of Meet.
In the morning the wind hauled into
the, northeast, Ted shriver. in a Dietz
biplane, started TO make short flight
in the face OF a ten mile wind, He rose
to q height Of 100 feet and flew. to the
grand stand. then swerycd and !leN
directly over the spot where Radley ant
Moissant were wrecked which Is knowr
as dead mans turn" the wind SUD
dip and list badly 10 the right. Shrlye
pulled the acroloons but the machine
would not right When fifty feet from
the ground the biplane righted, but th'
strain caused something TO give way
and the machine plunged 10 the ground
Shriver was buried beneath the wreck
age and from the stand II looked as 1
he was killed. He arose. however, GU
on the nose, check and eyclid. He sui
fered no serious injuries, but the b
plane and engine were demolished. Afte
having his wounds dressed, Shriver wen
home.