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rare automobile race with sixty entries
that could show so clean a slate.
Yesterdays accident befell Lieut.. Aus
ten Crehore of westheld. N. J.. who had
earned rank as an ace with the French
army. He lies in the Homeopathic Hos
pital at Albany with a broken arm.
several broken ribs. slight conclusion
of the brain and possible internal In
juries that led the doctors to summon
members of his farrily to Albany to-
| night.
Crehore's accident is chargeable to
the crowds which swarmed over the
| small field at Albany. as they did on the
| day before. He was flying an Italian S. v.
j A. of 210 horsepower He had flown
| from Mineola to Albany in an hour and
II half. AS he started to settle onto
| the field he saw that he would drive
into a group of spectators He tried to
bring his plane into the air again, but,
| apparently devoting more attention to
watching the crowd and keeping away
| from 1t than to the course his machine
was following, he swooped into a tree
with a crash.
Crehore was knocked unconscious and
was dragged from the wreckage bleed
ing severely from a cash over the eye.
An ambulance Surgeon on the field
dressed this wound ana pronounced it
irlfiing. but as Crehore was still uncon-
scious he was seIit to the hospital There
| The broken arm and ribs and the possi-
bic internal injuries were discovered. He
| recovered consciousness last night and
his condition was reported favorable.
Deep regret was expressed at the
American Flying Club last night over
| the accident to Crehore. He had been
| a member of the famous Lafayette Es-
quadrille Of Americans in the French
army and was later one of the great
"94th" squadron of Spads with the
Americans. He had two Boche planes
to his credit and had won the Croix de
Guerre.
Throughout the length of the State
the race has excited the greatest inter-
est The fiiers report that all along the
| way they can see people on the roads.
in the fields and In the open places in
citieA staring up at them and waving.
Only In New York does the public inter-
est in the race seem lacking. At no time
has there been a great crowd at Roose-
welt Field.
Heavy weather Encountered.
Heavy weather was encountered yes
/ terday through the Mohawk Valley. Sew
eral of the early fiiers from Syracuse
saw thunderstorms ahe,d and returned
to their last starting point for fresh
takeoff. In general. however, the wind
was from the eastward, favoring those
! Of he Canadian Aiara xvhn r0da down
on the west wind Of Monday and started
their return trip to-day.
Lieut.. Plumb. the winner of the race.
vas the third man out of Syracuse yes
; Arday morning. Capt. Simonin and
Capt. Harry Smith. the latter in 49,
horsepower SE-5, were just ahead OF
him. Plumb had caught them before the
first landing at Buffalo. however, and
was in the lead when the Buffalo control
was made on the return journey. From
that time he never was headed.
Lieut.. Maynard, second home at Nine
ola, was another of those who got as far
as Syracuse Monday n ght in DH-4.
He got away just an hour after Plumb
yesterday. and maintained that distance
behind him all the way up and down.
Schroeder. second man home In the
race and the first to get back to Toronto,
was one of the eastward starters who got
to Mineola on Monday night He got
away at 9 :43 yesterday morning. was In
Albany at 1902. In Buffalo at 4:14. and
home at :52
Albany again was the spot OF busy
congest on on the course. Before 8
o'clock yesterday morning thirteen planes
had taken the air from the little neld
, there. Some were westbound, some east
hound. and two of them. Adams and
Logan. turned back to Mineola for an
| other start.
syracuse, where the advance guard
, | of the westward fiers had put up for
the night, was astlr early and by 10
o'clock dozen had taken on from
| Bethka Field. Capt. Harry Smith. who
was close behind Plumb at this point
; missed the field on Monday and spent
the night in a cornfield beyond the
citv He got away without mishap early
, Yesterday morning. however, made his
; official stop at the field and was on
on the course without damage.
inadequate Flight Reports.
Reports were extremely inadequate
: as to the progress OF The hiers yester-
: day. The last report OF Sergeant Coomps
winner of the first leg race on Mon
dav. was that he had reached Al
bany on the return journey at IL :Os
, Col. Barker left Albany at 1910 ant
has not been reported. though he should
have been home to Toronto last nigh,
bv an easy margin. Roland Rohlfs did
L not appear In the official reports aftei
. leaving Mineola at :31 yesterday morn
: ing, though officials of the Flying cur
were confident that he was wen or
the course after making his usual con
troll stops.
Lieut. Col. Hartney, who got away
from Mineola Monday and spent thu