Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-01
AERO CLUB BACKS
MO|SANT IN White
RACE BY 100000
American Ready to Fly Against
Britisher Any Time on
Equal Terms.
TOMBSTONE SETS NEW
WORLDS ALTITUDE MARK
Bird,men Pack Up Planes and
Prepare for Baltimore
Aviation Meet. /

John B. -Moisant to the extent of
100000 will, it is understood, be put up
by the Aero Club of America any time
Claude Graheme- White, the English
champion, is ready to race the Amer
ican aviator. who was declared winner
of the Statue of Liberty flight. ON any
thing like equal terms.
Grahame- Whites challenge to an
other race and his reported posting of
$4,000 for the contest has brought out
the following answer from Moisant:
sI will race you anywhere. at any
time, under any circumstances, on
equal terms
The American makes 1t entirely plain
that he is more than willing to meet
his British rival, If he Is permitted to
obtain af aeroplane of equal power TO
that USED by Grahame-Wnite. The
closing of the Liberty race over the
Englishman's protest has caused a
great furor in aviation circles. There
werc last night rival dinners. at which
the Aero Club aviation committee WAS
both condemned and commended.
It appears as though the Curtiss ~
lowers and the foreign aviators :i1e
with Grahame-W White, while the Wright
adherents are aligned with the COM
mittee and the winner of the race.
DrexeI Quits Aero Club.
So bitter is j. Armstrong Drexel, sEe
American-bor aviator who has spent
most of his life in England, over
the whole controversy that at a
dinner which he gave at Sherry's he
gave the prize to Moisant and an
nounced his resignation from the Aero
Club of America.
"I don't see where the sporting in
stinct of Grahame- White comes in"
said Moisant today. IT take 1t he
means to challenge me for q side bet
of $4,000 TO race his 100-horsepower
Bleriot against my 5o-horsepower
Bleriot.
lone with true sporting instincts
qxwould naturally take it for granted
that Grahame-White would at least
Jconcede handicap or offer decent odds.
"As soon as I have acquired 100
horsepower motor and feel myself ON
this respect I will race him anywhere
or at any time he may name and let
him smell my smoke from the time we
start until we quit. Mr.. Grahame-
White seems to be a poor loser"
Moisant Greatest Money Winner.
Moisant came off the biggest money
victor of the great International tour
nament. which ended with Ralph
Johnstones altitude fight in which he
broke the worlds record. The total
winnings of Moisant were SIS, 800. Gra-
hame-White won ZOO; Hoxsey, $S,675;
Johnstone $3,625; Latham, $3,250; Au-
brin, $1.250; McCurdy, SLIGO; Radley.
$1,050; Drexel, $500.
In breaking the worlds altitude rec
ord, tombstone reached a height Of
9,714 feet. While he was lost to view in
the clear blue of the autumn sky over
the centre of the field ]. Armstrong
Drexel climbed into the air pillows in
a monoplane, a 50-horsepower Bleriot,
to take the grand altitude of the meet
away from Johnstone. Drexel ascend
ed more than a mile and a half, but
when he had reached a height Of 1913
feet. or ninety-eight feet less than
Johnstone flew last Thursday and 1,341
feet lower than Johnstone's record
climb of yesterday, an attack of sick
ness and the extreme cold told Drexel
he had had enough, and he came down.
$500 to See Machine.
Today many of the bird-men are
packing up. preparatory to going to
Baltimore. where they will participate
In an aviation meet, at which some in
teresting and unique prizes are offered.
Ross r. Winans, millionaire capitalist,
who Is Ill at his home in that city, has
offered $500 in addition to Baltimore
newspapers prize of 5000 for an aero
plane flight through the city by Hubert
Latham If Latham files near enough TO
Mr. winans's residence for him to see
the machine in the air. Winans's home
is in St. Paul street near Preston
street. mile from the centre Of the
city.
MonopIane VS.. Biplane.
The question Of superiority as between
the biplane and the monoplane. which
the promoters of the Belmont Park in
ternational meet hoped to settle in the
series of contests between the best fiiers
of three countries, is still an open one,
according to the Aero Club officers. The
Bleriot monoplane, thanks to the work
of Moisant the American, and Gra-
hame- White, the Englishman, took a
majority of the prize money. but the
worlds altitude records and a goodly
share of the other honors went to the
Wright biplanes in the skilful hands
of Johnstone Hoxsey and Brookips
Wilbur Wright expresses himself as
satisfied with the showing of the BIZ
planes.
Everyone talked monoplane before
the meet began" he said. but I think
we have demonstrated that the biplane.
which got the duration and altitude
prizes, was the machine that had by far
the best control The backward flights
of Hoxsey and Johnstone in a fifty-mile
gale and the sharp turns of Hoxsey and
Brookins several thousand feet in the
air showed control.
"And the biplane would have had the
prize for speed but for Brookins's un-
fortunate accident. We had the fastest
machine. BY our actual tests. 1t was
- least five miles faster than LeBlanc's.