The sun., 1919-08-25
81 AIRPLANES
IN RACE TO-DAY
Toronto-New York Contest
Starts at 8 O'Clock This
Morning.
WILL FLY OVER THE CITY
FOrty-five Machines Start
From Here, Others From
Toronto.
WILL FLY OVER THE CITY

went through warming up gallops yes
Toronto air race. greatest of aerial
sporting events, which starts from
Roosevelt Field, Mineola, at 9 O'Clock
this morning and from Toronto at
noon. Col. Archie Miller, for instance,
romped up to Syracuse and back to
Roosevelt Field with a squadron Of
five American army entries. Five
others few the full length OF the course
flew from Buffalo to the Toronto take
Off and from Dayton few Howard
Rinehart and c. W. Whelsn, with
Orville Wright as a passenger. to see
the Prince OF Wales start the fiiers
from the Canadian end to-day.
During the last hours of yesterday the
American Flying Club. under whose aus
pices the race was arranged. was
swamped with new entries. There will
be sixty -four military and civilian con-
testants for the Hotel Commodore S1o,-
900 prize and other awards. Never be-
types taken the air for a single event.
A letter from the Prince OF Wales to
President Wilson by German Fokker
plane will be carried by Col. William
c. Barker. who will start his captured
plane from the Leaside field in Toronto
| at o'clock this morning in the hope
OF making the round trip in one day.
At Roosevelt field the letter will be
dropped from the air and picked up by
an American mail plane, which will
have II in Washington an hour and a
half later
"It is poetic justice that Fritz's plane
should carry England's message to
| America" said the telegram to the Fly
ing Club announcing these arrangements
last night
Col Barker wears the Victoria Cross.
Military Cross. Distinguished Service
Order and the Distinguished Flying
| Cross
To Garry wilson's Message.
Capt. ]. NJ. Foote will carry President
| Wilson's invitation TO the Prince of
Wales TO visit this country from Roose-
Welt Field to Toronto and Lieut.. Percy
| NJ. Stone will carry Mayor Hylan's in
vitation. Governor Smith will send
messages to the Prince and the Cana
| dian authorities when The planes stop
| at Albany.
Either forty-four or forty-fve planes
will make the start from Roosevelt Field,
| where Major-Gen. William Mitchell OF
the Army Air Service will officiate. and
the others will leave Toronto at the
| word of the Prince of Wales.
Those who new from Selfridge Field
end from Roosevelt Field TO Toronto
yesterday were Capt. W. II. Cook in a
German Fokker, Lieut.. II. f, Slater in
jDH-i, Lieut.. Wallace Young in Curtiss
J-N, Major Reid Chambers in the 2eo
horsepower Spad, which he flew in
battle in France, and Lieut.. Lloyd
Blackburn in Curtiss,
From Buffalo Roland Rohlts. the Cur
tiss test pilot who attained so,7O0 foot
altitude record in the Wasp triplane a
few weeks ago. new an Oriole of the
Curtis type to the Toronto start Bert
| Acosta and ~ c. Palmer few with him
in machines of the same type.
The American Flying Club received
last night the names OF additional Ca
madam entries as follows: Col. William
A. Barker in a Fokker. Capt. z. C.
Janney. Lieut. A. C. Schiller and Capt.
In S. McCruddon in Canadian training
planes, and H. A. Quigley in a Bentley
motored sopwith snipe.
New British Model.
The last named machine was the last
model developed by the British and
sent TO the front just before the ar
mistice. There the Snipe rapidly proved
itself the supreme ruler of everything In
the air. Quantity production was Just
beginning when the armistice was signed
and the focks OF Snipes which came over
the British and other sectors did much
10 swing the supremacy Of the air finally
IN favor OF the Allies.
The diers who leave Toronto at noon
are expected to begin TO drop in on
Roosevelt Field before dusk Those
who leave Roosevelt Field will circle over
midtown Manhattan before getting un-
der way. The Flying Club, the Hotel
, Comm odore and the Forty-second Street
: business Mems Association will stage a
demonstration for them in Pershine
, Square as they circle about the Grand
Central district.