Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-07
Garry Away Big Purses
From Boston Meet.
Grahame- White Make New no.
cord for Boston Light Flight
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Bomb Dropping Cenissi BrIass 0si
Some Very Clean Work.

Boston, Sept. 6--EarIe L. Ovington
of Boston and TOM Sopwith, the
Englishman. both BIerio. pupils, with
lOyington flying a Curtiss biplane and
Sopwith a Wright as diversion,
proved the stars OF the second annual
Harvard-Boston aero meet. which
closed tonight. Ovington carried away
the largest purses l1,7s2. of which
$4,000 was won in the premier event
of the meet. the cross country flight
through three states with stops at
Nashua, N. H.. Worcester, Mass. and
Providence r. L., which tooR place
Monday. Sopwith at the firing of the
last bomb was credited with having
won first place in IL events and second
place in 10 others Claude Grahame-
White of England, the, star Of last
years meet, owing to the high power
of the 70-horsepower Newport and
what he considered the dangerous fea-
lures of many of the events. did not
come out for any of the races which
he doubtless could have easily Won,
as no machine In the meet seemed to
approach the monoplane he few.
Grahame- White in landing from the
Boston light cross sea fight of 80 miles
at the close of the day, carrying his
mechanician as passenger, ditshed
his car. The aviator was thrown on
to the forward rim of the chassis and
received cut on the lip.
The Boston light flight of SO miles.
twice around the course, which Is
partly over sea and partly over the
cluster of islands of the harbor. was
easily the event of the day, and was
won by Grahame-W White. carrying a
passenger throughout the distance. In
the remarkable time of N minutes.
IS 1-5 seconds. 1t was a new mark
for the course. over which there have
been now four races. 81
| Sopwith, with his Bieriot, made ltho
distance in 80 minutes and 6 seconds.
| Lieut.. Il, D. Milling, of the United
States army, flying a Burgess Wright
bipl5ne, performed some of the most
finished work OF tile day In the hand
ling of his bipIane. He won The n.y.
ure eight speed event and took tic
prize in the landing test With a. mark
Of 500 feet. In this latter event Sop
with, flying Wright. was second.
but the best he could do was 7o,s
feet. Harry N.igAtWood in Bnrgess-
Wright got a mark of 1879 feet a.
! In passenger carrying Graharie-
White again showed the superiority. OF
his Newport by making three laps OF
the mile and half course in Inin-
utes, a2 3-5 seconds, Sopwfth was Sec
! ond with. minutes, Is seconds and
Milling third with I minutes. 10 5-5
seconds "a slsl. eStgse ~ sss,s s..
The bomb dropping contest today
brought out some clean cut work be-
tween three ayiators, among whom
there has been much rivalry through
out the meet Milling went up ard
got an average of 20.8 feet With three
bombs. Atwood bettered this mark by
landing his white balls an average of
1874 feet from the bulls eye. Then
Sepwith made an average for the
three shots of "a feet, which gave
him the event. A So
In the quick start. Sopwith got
! away in his Wright in 8 seconds, fall
ing to beat the mark of the meet made
by Reachey of 8 S-5 seconds Milling
was second with 8 3-5 seconds
The two Englishmen entered for the
altitude climb and, as previously, the
Newport, with Grahame-W White at the
helm. took the event, soaring 70 GOO feet
in exactly four minutes, the best time
for sky climbing recorded during the
meet. Sopwith with his Bleriot required
6 minutes, IS seconds. ~ !.
/ The closing hours of the meet found all
the machines in the air carrying passeB-
gers in exhibition flights for a general
offer from the management OF "a min
ute. fet,
The following is the total of prize
money taken by the aviators with the
number of first second and third places
won during the meet: So
Earl oyington, Bleriot. stl7S2: firsts 1,
seconds 2, thirds L ~
Tom sopwith. Bleriot-Wrisht. s6022;;
frsts IL. seconds 10.
T. u. Milling. Burgess Wright. tS06:
firsts a., seconds 4, thirds /. 80
Claude ,Grahame-W White. Newport. G224;
firsts 8.
! Lincoln Beaehey. scurtiss. $3.50: firsts 9.
seconds. 2. ~ tss
| A. B. Stone. Queen, 5000 (consoiation,.
! Edward w. GILL Burgess-Wright. 1881:
firsts 2. seconds 2, thirds I.
George Beatty. Wright. $4Ss; seconds 5.
thirds 3.
Harry N. Atwood, Burgess-Wright. szss;
firsts l. seconds 1, thirds /.
Frank Coffyn. Burgess-Wright, s4ou;
hrsts I. seconds ?.
Eugene Ely. Curtiss, $40: seconds 2
SET AHEAD.