Bisbee daily review., 1912-09-08
AVIATION MEET ID SET PACE FOR
 AMERICA FlYESR
International Event Opens at Chicago Monday; Famous Pilots
 Gather

CHICAGO, Sept. 7.-Amerlca's third
 international aviation meet, which opens Monday will establish a new mark for America in the number of aviators of international fame en- tered. Chief of these are the pilots of the foreign and American racers who compete in the Gordon Bennett worlds championship aeroplane race, the first event Of the meet.
 The meeting embraces daily mono.
 plane and biplane handicap races,
 scratch biplane and mono
 plane race which is designed to give further demonstration of the skill of the Gordon Bennett drivers, and a 40 kilometer race for all types. handi.
 capped Other conRtsts are bomb and mail throwing, accuracy landing contests from heights of 1000 feet without a motor and similar events in which skill of the operator is tested.
 This is the fourth time areoplanes have been matched for the worlds championship. as typified by the S1O,- coo silver trophy given by James Gordon Bennett in 1908 to be con- tended for annually by licensed pi- lots of the Federation Aeronautiaue lnternationale.
 Twice before a single American entrant has driven his aeroplane ahead of his competitors and brought the silver trophy to America. Glenn H. Curtiss was the first winner. at Rheims, France, Aug 2S. 1909. His biplane finished the 12.4 mile race in l5 minutes 30 seconds. or five sec. onds ahead of the looked-for winner. Louis Bleriot's monoplane. There were five starters but only four of the flyers were able to cover the dis,
 tance, which shen was considered an almost impossible journey for an areroplane.
 In New York, on the Belmont Park aerodome, the second contest was held. The course had been length, ened to 100 kilometers; C62.14 miIes) and Claude Grahame White. Eng, lands best known airman. won in T minutes four seconds, in the first 1OO horse power Bleriot monoplane built | Alfred Lablane of France led in the race in similar machine. up to the last lap of the field when he ran out of gasoline and in landing crashed into a telegraph pole and smashed his aeroplane
 Grahame Whites victory took the
 trophy to England. where it was con, tested for in 1911 on the Isle of Shep ! py at Eastchurch, July 1. Charles 1 Teeres Weymann. sole American en trant again. went up in a 100 horse ] power Nieuport monoplane and cap tured the trophy. His time for the ! 15O kilometers was S1 minutes. 3G seconds, a speed of 7S miles an hour 1 then a world record. Leblanc, again after the world championship. had to l content himself with second, being two minutes slower than Weymann. Speed alone determines the win her there being no restriction Y, on the construction of the aeroplane. Because of the high speeds attained, few aviators have cared to enter and in the three events held pre- viously a total of thirteen entrants only appear on the lists.
 This year the race has been length ened to 200 kilometers 024 milesD and the course was laid out as an elipse of 4.14 miles, requiring thirty laps to complete the race. In the French elimination trials Jules Ved- rines made a speed of 106 miles an hour which established expectance as to what speed would be made by the choice machines of the six na- tions mpeting-America. England, France. Holland, Belgium and Switz- eTIand.
 France designated Jules Vedrines and Maurice Provost pilots of De terdussin monoplanes. and Andre Frey, who drves an Hauriot mono plane, as it's representatives, Eng land had named Claude Grahame White, Gustave Hamel and George DyOtt, but 1t was not certain until the last minute just who would make the actual flights.
 Belgium's representative Charbes Morok, died os typhoid fever a few days before the race. and Jan Wyn- malen. who was to represent Holland, was SO disappointed in the showing of his Oertz monoplane he withdrew Edmund Audemara. Switzerland's rep resentative, was not certain of enter ing and as for America. the choice of pilot will not be definitely settled till the day before the race. An American defender prepared to carry a 16O horse power motor. the largest aero motor ever designed.
 The hydroaeroplane, or airboat aviation contests are the first ever held outside of the military compe- tition held in France for selection of government machines. The con tests must continue five days during which races and contests are evolved 10 demonstrate how the multi-use machine may be guided on the wa ter. be raised into the air and flown as flying craft.
 In addition efficiency prizes have been offered. the contest being the number of passengers carried, the length of time one, two and three ,fnff and