Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
College Park Meets All ExaC-
tionS for Aviation Field.
AVIATORS ALL INDORSE 1T
Aero Club President Believed Com
mitted to Select It.
PAULHAN ALONE Is CRITICAL
Known Courage Believed to Guaran-
tee Change of Heart, as Ameri-
cans Are Unafraid

Replies have been received by the Aero
Club of Washington from all American
aviators TO whom the Aero ClHb sent
maps of the proposed course at Colecs
Park, where 1t is hoped to hold the in
ternatiOnal aviation meet. All these re-
plies are favorable.
This does not mean yet that WASH
ington will get the meet. IT does fulfil
the last of the conditions laid down oy
Courtland Field Bishop. president OF
the Aero Club of America when he in
spected the College Park field February
a.
Mr.. Bishop did not say at that time
that he would throw the international
meet 10 Washington What he did say
was that Washington fulfilled all con-
ditions needful to the meet unless it were
the physical necessities of the case.
Left It to Aviators.
he said. Z do not feel like taking the
responsibility of saying that the course
at College Park will or will not do.
But / will leave the matter to men
who have done actual flying
In accordance with the wish of Mr.
Bishop maps of the field were prepared
by the Aero Club and were sent to the
Wright brothers. to Glenn Curtiss, Lieut..
Frank Lahm and to Louis Paulhan. All
the American aviators have replied and
all favor the course at College Park
Wilbur Wright and Lieut.. Lahm have
flown over it. Orville Wright and Glenn
Curtiss have seen it and have studied the
map
Paulhan has been quoted in some of the
New York papers as saying the course
was dangerous. As he is known as the
most daring aviator now flying, it is not
q Of ha r1,,b
here that. II he has the map and the
situation explained to him by impartial
parties, he will be any more conservative
than American aviators.
Wright Suggests Change.
Wilbur Wright blew into washington
yesterday with his usual pneumatic tread
and left again this afternoon. He talked
over the flying course at College PARK
with the members of the site committee
of the Aero Club.
at College Park Is triangular. MIR
Wright advised cutting off the corners of
the triangle and planting two posts
where each corner had been, with space
of about 500 feet between them. This,
he said, would make the turns less sharp
and would make the course as good as it
was possible for It to be-
He said also that the Wright Company
WouI0 not IOIcrIere with any foreign dE1-
ator who came to compete for the speed
cup. This was as far as he would COM
INIT himself In this direction
Tho facts, 80 Tar as they have been ac-
Cumu2ated by the Washington Aero Club.
win all Be laid before Mr.. Bishop. He
Win have practically the whole say In
the disposition Of the meet on April /,
w1en tho question will be officially de-
C4ded.
It would seem, however. in view of the
decision Of the American aviators i'm ia
vor Of College Park that he is committed
TO Washington.
The guarantee fund for the meet here
is now about SS0.0OO There will be little
trouble In raising the remainder in Bal
timore II the meet is scheduled for Wash
ington.
Many clubs affiliated with the Aero
Club Of America have declared that il
the meet Is taken by New York they viii
not renew their aff1liation with the ma
tional body. 1t is thought by the mem
bers or the Washington club that this at
titudc Of the affiliated clubs will have
considerable effect.