The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-25
KICK ON SUNDAY AVIATION


npHtS. hlWOOu tneTtIOIe COuIu IdNt
entered the final event. but decided he
would have no chance and permitted
the three other winners to fight II out
among themselves. Ely, the winner OF
the final event covered the ten miles.
eight circuits Of the course, in II minutes
~ is seconds. Capt. Beck was second
in II minutes 30 2-5 seconds, Sopwiths
time was Is minutes ~ seconds:
The event that the crowd liked best
was relay race which followed In this
race teams Of two fliers. one in biplane
and the other in monoplane' mon, "a. pNs,,, Were
with Lieut.. Ellyson, Atwood with Lee
Hammond, Sopwith with Grahame-White
and Ovington with Lieut.. Milling. The
idea was to start one man on on Tour
lap (flve milesD sprint while his partner
waited. and at the end of the four laps
the first man of the team was to descend,
jump from his machine, run TO where
his partner sat in another machine all
ready to start, hand the partner bit ot
paper and then duck as the second man
lit out to circle the sky for hve miles
more.
Tommy Sopwith got of first in 50
horse power Bleriot, while Grahame-
White. his teammate. waited with baby
White biplane champing AZ its carbnreter.
Tommy made his five miles. bounced 10
the ground and spilled over the SIDE oi
his Rleriot before the monoplane had
come to a stop He hotfooted II for about
seventy five yards then To where Grahame-
White awaited him. handed over the mes
sage and jumped aside ~ Grahame-
Whites machine jumped forward
When Grahame- White got of he wasted
| no time in climbing. hut tipped around the
circuit cutting daisies. SO low was he as
he turned the first pylon that not u few
gasped bit thinking the English tlier
surely would scrape his left wing tip on
the grass. But he got away with 1t and
also with the prize. j,
Earle l.. Ovington. the first To start of
the Ovington- Milling team. gave the
crowd much happiness by tumbling from
! his machine because of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
to get from his aeroplane seat to the
ground. He picked himself up and ran to
where Lieut. Milling awaited the bit OF
paper And then the crowd laughed again
as Ovington ducked under the lower left
plane of Lieut.. Milling's machine IN order
10 save the few moments that would have
been consumed had he run out TO the
tin Of the plane to get out of the way. He
lust lay prostrate on the grass. the me-
chanics let go of the machine and II skipped
over Ovington's body and shot into the
| air.
The winners of the event we're
Grahame- White and Sopwith. Their
time. that is the elapsed time from the
ins,an Sopwith started until Graharne-
White ran 10 the timers stand with his bit
Of paper for the eight miles was l3 min
utes Is seconds.
Miss Matilde Moisant in a Moisant
the air yesterday. Mile. Dutrieu was
busy in her hangar in the afternoon,
decked out in a divided skirt of khaki.
experimenting the assembling OF her
Farman machine. but the days flights
had ended before the Farman was ready
arose at ) O'Clock. the lone competitor
for the Rodman Wanamaker trophy
for the highest climb by woman pilot,
Miss Moisant got lots of cheers as she
headed south while the relay races still
were on. She swung of to the east near
the lower end Of the field and then took
all the eastern sky to herself as she climbed
in great circles that finally brought her
up to the 200 foot mark. Then she
started earthward and. after few turns
about the field settled to roost amid
another uproar of applause
Letter Carrier Ovington went int o
the air at the same time with bag Of
mail So many folks deposited post
cards and letters in the boxes fastened
along the sidelines that Post Office In
spector NJ II. Doyle had on his hands
before O'Clock 6.i85 post cards. ISL let
ters and 55 pieces Of printed matter
This was too much for one aviator &c
handle and 40 the mail was dumped into
two bags. and Tommy Sopwith volun-
teered to carry aloft the second one
Ovington's pouch weighed fourteen
pounds and Sopwith's sixteen pounds.
The aerial letter carriers headed for
Mineola where Postmaster Noorhies
of Brooklyn and Chief Inspector Dick.
son were waiting in a field. The avi'
ators dumped their mail bags on as they
neared Mr.. VOORHEES, and Inspector Dick
| son and the bags then were taken to
Brooklyn. where the letters and cards
were sorted out in the regular way anc
forwarded to their destinations
Doubtless the first letter ever inscribed
in an aeroplane was being written alof
by Earle Ovington about the same time
Ovington started aloft with fountain
, pen grpped in his teeth and a sheet o
paper on his knee The aviator first
asked three newspaper men to sign thell
names to the sheet so that no one coulC
accuse him of taking aloft a letter alread,
written. and then as he circled abou
, the field Ovington steered with one hanC
and with the other wrote the following
I note TO Mr., Woodruff
Congratulations on tho success %
Americas most successful aviation meet
sincerely yours.
EARLE l.. OviNGroN. Monoplane IL
p Some gusty up here. Field below
looks fine
| When he had finished his letter Ovingtol
flew across the judges stand and dropped
his note to Mr. Woodruff The writin,
was bit wabbly, hut plaln enough
There was one very ragged stroke in th
signature.
That's the time she dipped explained
the aviator. and ] he'd TO move fast T.
warp 'er up again
George " Dyott moment later kpe,
out across the field in machine tina
most folks thought was an Antoinette
II was a Depredussin monoplane, how
p ever, the first seen here Dyott ha
two of the machines here and expects 4
get under way with them in the event
= to-day
O There were only two entrants for tn
q cross-country race for monoplanes
= Grahame White and Sopwth, The tw
= EnRlshmen flew over a course estimate,
% to be about seventeen miles and whic
. carried them over Belmont Park. theme
v to Mineola, back across Belmont Par
and to the starting point. Grahame
:. White in his fast Nieuport machine wo
in II minutes 5 rs seconds Sopwith
y time was ~ minutes IS l-5 seconds.
Il +. & Cline was the only f'ier to com
4 to grief yesterday. Gin" sailed aloft i
). a Farman in the forenoon and in ali ightn
: bumped a bit too hard and splintere
T. the chassis The aviator wasn't injured
DR. Henry Walden who had spill q
! Saturday. came to the field yestcrda
and WIS told by Secretary G. I. Camr
e bell Wood of the Aero Club of Americ
Il that as the doctor never had receive
! a pilot's license formnlly ho would nf