New-York tribune., 1919-08-28
Big Air Derby
Finished 10y II
More PLANES
Seven Aviators Are Forced
Down i'll Race Between
Toronto and New York
and Return by Storms

soaked and with their planes buffeted
ana shaken by the wind and rain they
mad encountered. So bad did weather
'ohaluons become during the middle
OF the day that the control boards for
pade any aviator to so up. Before this
SIX planes had been put out of the
running by the storm. and one had dis.
appeared.
iAeutenant i. G.. Slater in =
pH-4, left Buffalo for Toronto at
2:4' yesterday. Late last night mir
planes ard members of the Toron to
t-Ne- Saving station were still hunting
LOT nm. 1T is feared that he NAV have
ulopped INTO Lake Ontario, or else
mas been driven far OFF his course b,.
the storms.
CAPTAIN H. H. Cook. who arrived at
Buffalo in the mid-afternoon, cave up
his hlght to Toronto to fv over,
! ontario IN the hope Of finding Slater.
Bert Acosta reported seeing Dc
i hav.iand machine flying west across
'ne take as he was driving on to COM
plete hls course at Toronto He did
no' Know at hat time that Slater was
m'sslng and believed this was his ma
chine.
Barker First at Toronto
Colonel ". g. Barker, the Canadian
ace, Was Fhc first to complete the
course at Toronto yesterday. He ar
rived at 9:@0, and save for pain in his
crippled left arm which was frozen
while he WAS flying at nigh altiutde.
was in excellent condition.
tie was followed by Roland Rohlfs at
Has; Bert Acosta at 1883. and Ser
geant Coonlhs at 1910. Coombs claims
that his flying time was s hours and 81
minutes. -Ialor Schroeder. who hither-
TO was picked as a possible winner,
completed the course in 9 hours and 35
minutes
Lieutenant s. N. Moore arrived at
1;Sl, Lieutenant Schiller at IS and
L. " Berkaud 2 short time later.
Those who completed their flights at
Roosevelt Field yesterday. we're:
Lieutenant 4. S. MiGkii. 1920 a. NJ. :;
I Captain \. 5. Simonian, 1884; Lieu
tenant ". {. S. Brown, 1850: Lieu
tenant ?. II. Logan, 900 p m; Lieu
tenant II. r Chandler, G:52; Colonel
Gerald Brant. 7:25; Lieutenant Colo
mel Il. +. Hartney, 7:34; Lieutenant
Ben Adams. 7:3G.75; Lieutenant W. Il.
Taylor, 1870, and Major 4. B. Gil
keson. sos.
Lieutenant 7. 7. Nonsinger came
within four miles Of completing his
f. ght. 4e arrived over Roosevelt Field
in his DH-4 at last night. groned
about IN the darkness ard finally came
to earth at Farmlngdale. four miles
away. His machine was lightly dam
aged. but he was unhurt
Al along the 900 mile course yes
terday planes were beaten down by
the rain, or driven out Of their courses
to forced landings BY the wind
It was bad flying weather. and once
during tire afternoon the air lanes be-
came so storm filled thst the board Of
control Of the race sent out orders for
no hiers 20 proceed further This ban
was raised later in the day.
The storms overhead and the soggy
ground underfoot were productive Of
more crashes than have occurred on
either Of the two previous days of rae
ing.
At LOS yesterday afternoon Lieu
tenant Charles l.. Osborne scared up
into the mists that overhung Roosevelt
Field in the DH4 machine. in which
Lieutenant Maynard completed the
course yesterday.
"lts lucky 'bus and it'll bring me
luck" he asserted just before he
climbed into the cockpit.
But it didn't. A storm overwhelmed d
him before he had more than got under
~ay and drove him down at Jericho,
l-OES iSldlu anu LUe luCkN DuS
cane to n inglorious smash-up in a
mired field.
Aleu-e"4nt c. II. Reynolds, in a
DH4, crashed north Of Albany, and
Lieutenant r. c. Kirkpatrick smashed
his propeller while landing at Buffalo.
Neither aviator was seriously hurt.
Another storm overwhelmed Lieuten-
ant G. S. Jones near Batavia, n. Y,
and forced him to land at knoxboro
81, >, 10 ! -!
where q farmer was poughing. The
mans horses ran away at the sight of
the machine trundling toward them.
Only minor damage was done to the
plane, and Lieutenant Jones expects
TO continue his flight to-day. He al
ready had flown from Toronto TO New
York, but unoficially. He started his
official flight from Roosevelt Field at
2:l6 Yesterday afternoon.
Major J. j. Lyons, flying Il JND-4
was forced to drop out of the race yes
terday at Poughkeepsie. He made two
attempts to resume his flight yesterday
morning. In the second his machine
buried her nose in the ground, damag-
ing her beyond immediate repair
The plane. of Lieutenant r. ". Brown
was wrecked al Canastota, n. Y, when
he made a forced landing and hit a
fence. He was not hurt.
Lieutenant Crehore Getting Well
1t WAS reported at the flying field
yesterday by aviators arriving from
Albany that Lieutenant a. B. Crehore,
former member of the Lafayette Es-
cadrlle, who was injured on the flying
field there Tuesdsy, was out of danger
and getting on we'll
Roosevelt Field yesterday was dis
NAL place. The clouds hung low and
it was drenched by showers several
times. AS result Of the storms that
were hanging over the course, there
was not much activity on the field.
Only fraction of the thirty or more
planes that were expected arrived,
due to wet and windy weather all along
the course.
At midday and toward dusk, the
field had two bursts Of activity. Dur
ing these periods the rain held up long
enough for aviators willing to take a
chance to drive their machines across
the last lap of their journey.
At l1:20 the first rain soaked aviator
appeared through the mist above the
field, circled wide to determine where
he was and then volplaned down He
was Lieutenant r. S. Midkiff, who had
fought storms ali the way down from
Albany and was driven several times
OFT his course. He flew a JN-4H and
had Sergeant Wayne Neville as a pas
senger.
FLYING Orders Suspended
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