The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-11-04
ENGLiSHMAN SCARS 62 MILES,
AVERAGING BETTER THAN
81 MILES AN HOUR.
AERIAL SPEED CHAMPION
lie Blanc Would Have Won Had He
Not Hit PoIe.-has Narrow Escape
From Death, but Makes World
Record.

the Gordon Bennett international
speed trophy from the custody OF
America in the fastest time ever GOV.
cred for the full distance, 62.14 miles,
around a five-kilometer course. His
average speed was a fraction better
than 81 miles an hour. The captain
of the French team, Alfred LIE Blanc,
flying in a similar machine, lO0-horse.
power Bleriot monoplane, was making
each lap on ar average of 20 seconds
faster than Grahame-White and would
have won the cup if he had not met
with a disastrous accident in his last
lap, when he had the race seemingly
well in nand.
LIE Blanc was running with the wind
under full power at an estimated speed
Of 80 miles an hour when the feed
pipe from his gasoline tank to his mo-
tor loosened under the incessant jar
ring of the engine and he suddenly
found himself with nothing but mo-
mentum to carry him.
Hits Telegraph Pole.
He tried to lift his planes so that
the last few drops of gasoline might
filter down into the engine and lend
him strength enough to make a land
ing. His steerage way was gone and
when a puff of wind caught him he
drifted sideways, still driving at tire.
mendous speed and crashed head fore.
most into a telegraph pole.
The pole was IA inches thick, but
he broke it in three pieces as if it
had been a toothpick. The first frag-
ment was sliced clean off II feet up
and snapped again at the bottom of
the stump. The third and topmost
fragment fell over backwards and
smashed down on the fragile planes.
The chassis and steel shield which en-
the motor We're completely
but the solid steel of the
itself withstood the shock. Had
lie Blanc hit the pole in any other
manner it is difficult to see how he
could possibly have escaped death.
In addition to lie Blanc's accident,
the day was marred by a serious mis-
hap to Walter Brookins of the Wright
Ca4i " Io ha4 amen up Tx IeW Ud-
by" Wright racer for the first time.
The machine was comparatively I'M
tried and in previous flights Orville
Wright always guided it.
Brookins Has Accident.
Brookins was just coming around
the turn into the home stretch for q
trial circle, preparatory to entering
into the Gordon Bennett ace when
of his eight cylinders ceased fir
ing. With only half power he tried
first to sustain himself by mounting,
decided it was wiser to land and
plunged to earth. In the strict sense
Of the word. he did not fall, but dived.
The machine struck its nose into the
dirt, slowly reared the tail upward and
finally collapsed, topside undermost,
with a thud, Brookins was thrown
his seat in the somersault. 1t
was later announced that though he
had been painfully injured in the groin
and severely bruised, there were no
bones broken and his life was not in
summaries:
Gordon Bennett international speed
race, distance 100 kilometers, CHA
niles-Won by Grahame-White, 100
horsepower Bleriot. Time-1 hour, 1
minute, Ala seconds; second, J. B.
Moisant, 50-horsepower Bleriot, l hour,
minutes, 44.S5 seconds; third Ogil-
vie, Wright, 2 hours, 6 minutes, 1863
seconds; fourth, Latham, Antoinette,
) hours, 48 minutes, 33.41 seconds,
]. A. Drexel did not finish.
Standing of the prize winners: Ora
first in Gordon Bennett,
900; previous winnings, $1,000: to-
al to date, $1,000.
HoXsey, first in special altitude
$500; first in second special altitude.
$500. Total winnings, $1,000; previ-
winnings, $3,675. Total to date,
S3,675.
Latham (Antoinette, previous win
$1,750.
Johnston tWright), second in first
altitude. $3.50; second in sec
special altitude, $3.50; total win
$500: previous winnings, SLIPS;
otal TO date, S1,525.
Moiasnt, previous winnings S1,2GG
Drexel. previous winnings, $89J.
De Lesseps, previous winnings. 500
Radey, previous winnings, $500.
Auburn, previous winnings, $500.
BIookins, previous winnings. $50.
Mars, previous winnings, 500.
McCurdy, previous winnings, $50.
Willard, previous winnings, $50.
crippen's Lawyers win Arreai.
London, England.-Counsel for Dr.
Iawley II. Crippen, who was scr
enced to death, decided to appeal iii