New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-01
SEVEN AEROPLAl
SURE FOR RA(L
-Four More May Enter The
July Foul tn Contest for
$1,000 in Prizes.
CURTiSS TOO BUSY
WITH OCEAN FLYER
America III. Aero Gibbs New
Balloon, To Be ChriStencd
at Point Breeze.

Details of the July aeroplane race
were perfected yesterday 3: q meeting
Of the two committees the Mayor
aud the Aero Clubs which have the
matter in charge. Seven entries are
assured and four others are expected.
Those certain to participate are rs
follows:
George Won UtssSy and j. A. ID. Nc
Curdy, Curtiss flying boat, lO0-horse-
power CurtiSs motor.
ingles NJ. Uppcron aud Charles T..
Niles. Boland flying boat, l25-horso-
power Roland motor.
Albert :. Heinrich. monoplane, 90
horsepower Gnome motcg.
". l.. Bonney, Caudron monoplanc,
C0-horsepower Gnome motor.
Thomas Bros. Thomas flying boat,
90-horsepower Austro-Daimler motor.
Waldeman Figylmessy. Curtiss ny
dro -acroplane. SO-horsopowcr motor
Harold kantner, Schmidt monopanc,
50-horsepower motor.
The four avators whose entry -
hoped for. but not yet certain. are:
Doc. Wildman. CurtiSs dying boat,
100 horsepower Curtiss motor
Victor Vernon. Curtiss flying boat,
100 horsepower Curtiss motor.
Guy fitzpatrick, Sloane flying boat,
horsepower CurtiSs motor
J. b. Il. Verplanck. Curtiss flying
boat. s0-horscpower CurtiSs motor.
The aeroplancs will start from Gov
errors Island; the flying boats from
the Atlantic Yacht Club. at Norton
Point. The course will lie up the
Hudson to Spuyten Duyvil, where a
stake boat will be located; then down
the Hudson past the Statue of Liberty
through the Narrows to Norton'S
Point; around the Atlantic Yacht
Clubs flagship or the Point and
through the Narrows again, with the
finish at Governors Island.
The prize money will total $1,000
o: its equivalent in silver, at the on
ton of the winning ayiators. The hrst
prize, 81 900, will be awarded for tho
fastest time over the course by any
contestant; the second, $500, VIII go
to the craft OF the type not winning
the first prize, but making the best
time for its own 'ype.
The third prize. $3.50, will GO to the
aviator. in n machine Of any type,
making the third best time, and the
fourth, $3.50, to the machine which
makes the fourth best time. and which
has not won any of the three preceding
prizes.
The J. Stuart Blackton trophy will be
awarded to the aviator making the fast
est time from the starting point 20 the
stakeboat anchored in front OF The At
lantic Yacht Club, and the Frank H..
Higgins cup to the aviator making the
best time in the race.
Martin ". Littleton, chairman Of the
Mayors Fourth OF July committee;
Champ Clark, Speaker OF the House o.
Representatives; Governor Martin II.
Glynn, Mayor Mitchell, John NJ. SHAW,
Courtlandt Nicol and Victor Ridder
expcct TO be at Governors Island TO
witness the race.
Representatives OF the Department
Of the East will include Brigadlcr
General Z. X. Evans. Colonel John
Mallory, 10Th Infantry; Lieutenant
Colonel william G.. Ham, General stat,
and Captain Albert Gleavcs, OF the
navy yard.
The Aero Club Of America commit
tee is composed Of Alap X. Hawloy
Joseph A. Steinmetz, Henry Woodhouse,
Howard Huntington, Edgar Beechet
Bronson, F. Harrison Higgins, lsraci
Ludlow. DR.. Jerome kingsbury, D.
Stuart Blackton, Charles Jerome I'd
wards. Chandler Smith, Arthur Johns,
william ID. Cash, J. Parke Claiming, a.
Ludlow Kramer and Albertus A. Reilly