The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-10-29
AIR.MEN IN
ACCIDENT
La Blanc Strikes
Tree While Making
Record Time

Belmont PARK ~ l. ONN ~ = u
lcss an aviator more daring and skill
ful than Claude 0rahame- White can
prove he sWoTthy today, tho Gordon
Pennett International speed trophy
will pass out OF America 20 rest in
English hands. The pick OF the French
cballcpgers and American defenders
arc ~ The hospital and tho fastest
time for the course s. Graham Whites
by a large margin.
BrOOkins of the Wright team lost
control OF hls machine 200 feet up
and shot 20 the Garth. whlrling end
over end nt terrific speed. His ma
chine Is a wreck ond the Wr,ghts are
out Of the contest for good
Leblanc, the champion Of the
French team. WAS tossed from hs
course In a gust OF wind. cut bis ma
chine IN two against d telegraph pole
and was hurled 10 the ground. Both
BrookLns and Leblanc were rushed TO
the field hospital, and reassuring
statement as 10 their condition was
given out By tho management
Latham. In his 100horscpower An
tolnctte. got such q fright when the
Wind almost blew him into the crowd
that be quit precipitately IN the NJ
teenth round. Tho tips OF the great
Wigs came not ten foot from tho
heads of the people who lined the
turn Into the far stretch As the
5uchng neroplanc started toward
them a cry OF terror went up. Brook
lns hanged down In front OF the grand
stand with a crash that could be heard
half a mdle away. AS his biplane shot
downward. the tail lifted higher and
higher In the air uBrl It finally swept
around In a rull half circle and banged
bottom upwards on the turf.
The crowd feared that BrOOklns has
been pinned underneath his engine
but % was soon seen that the motor
had clung 10 It's bed, for the propel.
Ter was still ohurning furiously dig
ging up bits OF turf and earth which
New about the wreck In a shower
Brookins wormed hls way out from
under tho collapsed framework and
staggered for about 20 foet, holding
his head In his hands at n In terrible
pain Then he tottered and fell An
automobile Nas driven TO bis side He
vas picked mp and rushed 10 the field
hospital There Il was said later that
he had no broken bones, and So far
as could be learned no internal In
Jurics.
- Blanc has three ugly scratches
across his face and on the Side Of his
head. but aside from bruises he Is
not otherwise injured and IS able TO
hobble about So great was lie
Blancs speed. driven by his - cyllu-
der l00-horsepower motor that when
be struck be not only cut his planes
In two. but snapped of the telegraph
pole as II II had been i toothDick.
belmont Park. Oct. 29-Two con
testlnts-Altred lie Blanc OF tho
French team and Walter $. Brookius
OF the American team-wcrc injured
IA the wreckinE of their aerOplanes
shortly after the start today OF tho
race FOR the James Gordon Bennett
cup. IN tho international eyont OF the
acroplano moet hold here. Neither
vas seriously lnjureo.
Claude Grohnmc-White Of the Eng
lIsh team. covered the course % 621
miles. or 20 times around the Belmont
course. In one hour. one minute aud
~ seconds, flying 10 a northwest Wind
thai varied from ton 10 fifteen miles
AN hour.
Alexander OFillylc or the English
team ensnycd the Night but gave up
after covering several laps.
At 1900 O'Clock none Of the other
cliEible contestants had started. cvi-
dcnty prcfcrrint 70 await milder nirs.
White was the first Of the compcri-
tors n get away. eHc crossed the
starting line az s:3d 81 lie dew az
The Lowell Of about 100 feet and was
making a mile a minute as ne crossed
the mark The rules provide that
starts may be made ~ any time after
$50 o'clock. an aviator once starring
not TO be allowed 90 descend for an
other trial Contestants must finish
before $50 p. m.
Zach contestant must ny twenty
laps over the long course. total OF
Gal miles ono start only Is allowed
providing the RyiatOrs crosses the
starting line The entrants were
American tenn. Walter Brookins
tGllo horsepower Wright G X
Hamilton Olol20 Hamlltoniau) j.
Armstrong DrcIel go horse power
blcdot Substitute. Mrs. Moisant and
Ho1sey.
England Claude Grahamc-Whlte
leo-horsn power BlerioD James Rad
~ ltehorEe power Blerlop AloEau-
u'r oslliSic tt-cylindor Wright rscerD
trance; Alfred Is Blanc Uoborse
power ot So-horse power Bleriof. HUI
bert Latham, 1oOhorae power Anton
.nettc)
White made his rlrst round In g.l5
~. hls greatest Specd was I'M front
'i mo stand over which be was driLt.
by no northwe5tcTiy wind. Hc
sept going mp 10 avoid tho danerrcun
gusts and passed on his second round
10 Gs1f1S
Il Blanc decided 10 Use hi. Blcriot
aecr and. after Trial around the
'ourtc az bar-ralsins speed. started
officially and made The fast tlmc of
Ltt6a 90 his itr1 round His ratio
of sped was calculated al 10 mile.
au hour noe worlds record
Whou White bad finished biz seven
id ap hR time vas taken 4. 2z.0e So
hoih aviaturs driftcd over The st1ui
a. ihcy made their vest uurns The
Find velocity at this saer iof the race
hour.
Alexander OrilIvIo. one 20 nb. Eng.
.',a team vas thr thirD contestant
- start He drove I'D i-cylind-r
NriFht llplauc and nd "a hls nrsl
-el1d In a.2l-e1 aud hI SECOND In
Grahnmc white nolsfed in he
'laf-Fd ums ~ enc horl on. n, r-ff.