The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-07-11
BALLOON RACE
STARTS TODAY
Contest to Pick U. S. Entries In
international Event

st. Louis, Mo-, July 1.-THE Ma
tional Balloon Race which is to start
from here this afternoon is the annual
elimination contest TO select entrants
for the international race for the Cor
don Bennett cup-which will start
from Kansas City next October. Each
nation that takes part i'm the interna-
tional race is entitled TO three en-
trants. one of the American entrants
is X. II. Epson, who won the last in
ternational race, which was held in
Paris Tho two balloonists who
make the greatest distance-in an air
line-in the race starting today will be
qualified for the international race of
this year.
Following are the balloonists who
have entered for the elimination race:
Warren Rason, Brookville, o.; bal
loon "Hoosier."
r. a. d. Preston, Akron, o.! balloon
Goodyear"
Arthur Il. Atherholt, Philadelphia.
Paul J. Mccullough, St. Louis; bal
loon, Uncle Sam"
William f. Assmann, st. Louis; bal
loon, Miss Sofia"
John Berry. ST Louis; balloon,
Aero Club of st. Louis"
L. S. Cole. st. Louis.
Jerome Kingsbury, New York.
John Watts, Kansas City.
Roy f. Donaldson, Springfield, Ill.
II. T.. Honeywell. ST Louis.
All the balloons entered, in the race
have a capacity of $4,000 cubic feet.
Many of the aeronauts have thrilling
records Captain Preston was aide to
r. II. Epson in the last international
race, and their balloon won the contest
over seventeen competitors, staying in
the air forty three hours.
Captain Atheiholt has made over 100
balloon flights. His first long flight
was in 1907 from st. Louis when with
Major Henry b. Hersey he took part
in the international race and landed
in Canada, after crossing the Great
Lakes. In the international race that
started from Stuttgart, Germany, in
- 49, Nv NV A'lN i'lA NliH VI WI many
Dnd Russia and landed in the Baltic
region near ST. Petersburg. ON land
ing he was arrested by the Russian |
as a German spy.
Aeronaut When He Was II.
William IT, Assmann of st. Louis has |
been an aeronaut since he was seven
zen years old. on July "a, 1909, his
balloon fell twenty thousand feet at |
night into Lake Nipissing, Canada
Assman was in the water all night |
ma was rescued by two Indians In
balloon he has crossed the Great Lakes /
hrcc times. Captain Assmann viii |
nave no aide in the night tits after
loon, as his balloon is not in good con-
iition. The balloon million Popula-
ion Club" i'm which he intended to fly |
vas lost In the recent balloon race
hat started from Portland ore.
Captain John Berry, who ncw in the
Million Population club" in the Port
and race, started his acronautic ca
Ger in 1862 when he was fourteen
cars old. In July, 1912, In the ma
ional races from Kansas city, Berry i
ode q thunderstorm For twelve hours. /
The basket filled with water waist
ecp. As aide in the race today Ber-
y will have Albert Won Hoffman. Jr
tho graduated this spring from the st,
.ouis high schools and is barely Is
ears old. They will fly in the Aero
Tub of 81. Louis"-thc same balloon in
Ional race of 1912 when he fell into
he Baltic Sea.
T.. :. Cole. who was granted pilots
cense in 1911, holds the distance rec
rd for flight i'm a 10000 cubic foot III
lpacity balloon. In such balloon he
ew from Topeka, Kan. to Tangier.
kla, distance Of $40 miles.