The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-07-11
BALL0ON|STS START
BENNETT CUP RACE
NE OF THE CONTESTANTS FELL
10000 FEET AND STILL
LIVES. -..-.~a.
(By Associated Press.)


st. Louis, Mo-, July 1.-THE Nation
'al Balloon Race, which is to start from
here this afternoon, is the annual elm
ination contest to select entrants for
the International race for the Gordon
Bennett cup which will start from
Kansas City next October. Each ma
tioa that takes part in the information
al race is entitled to three entrants.
One of the American entrants is r. H.
Epson, who won the last international
race, which was held in Paris. The
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 T. Atherholt, Philadelphia.
Paul ]. 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
E. S. Cole, st. Louis.
Jerome Kingsbury, New Yory.
|N John Watts, Kansas City.
Roy F. Donaldson, Springfield, Ill.
III. E. Honeywell, st. Louis.
" All the balloons entered in the race
have capacity of $4,000 cubic feet.
Many of the aeronauts have thrilling
records. Captain Preston was aide to
R. H. Upson in the last international
race, and their balloon won the contest
over seventeen competitors, staying in
the air forty-three hours.
Captain Atherholt 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 1912, he
flew the lengths of Germany and Rus
STA and landed in the Baltic region
near st. Petersberg. On landing he
was arrested by the Russian authori
ties as German spy.
William F. Assmann, of st. Louis
has been an aeronaut since he was /,
years old. On July IA, 1909, his bal
loon fell twenty thousand feet Mt
night into Lake Nipissing, Canada
ssmann was in the water all night
4hd was rescued by two Indians. II
a balloon he has crossed the Grea
Lakes three times. Captain AssmanI
will have no aide in the fight THU
afternoon, as his balloon is not ii
good condition. The balloon "Milliol
Population Club" in which he intended
to fly, was lost in the recent balloon
race that started from Portland, Ore
Captain John Berry, who flew in tn
million Population Club" in the Port
land race, started his aeronautic ca
reer in 1862 when he was fourteen
years old. In July, 1912, in the nation
al races from Kansas City, Berry rod
thunderstorm for ivy elve hours. TIL
basket filled with water waist deel
AS aide in the race today, Berry wi
have Albert Won Holman, Jr., VIII
graduated this spring from the S
Louis high schools and is barely 81,
teen years old. They will fly in tn
Aero Club of St. Louis"-the sam
Eal1oon in which Berry travelled in tn
International race in 1912 when h
R into the Baltic Sea.
FlE. S. Cole, who was granted pilot
license in 1911, holds the distance re
ord for fight in a 10000 cubic-fo'
capacity balloon. In such balloon
flew from Topeka, Kan, to Tangie
Okla, distance of 375 miles.