The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-14
SIX FLIERS REACH
PACIFIC; THREE HERE
Some Pilots Sustain Minor In
juries.

Six flerS from Mineoih uIoppco oheo
the Preside flying field at San Fran
cisco yesterday to find Lieut.. Belvin w.
Maynard, the flying parson. briskly max
ing preparations for a start on the nome
ward trail to-day At about the same
time three pilots from the Golden Gate
landed after their 2.7o0 mile spust at
Roosevelt Field. Mineola-
Despite the brilliant performance or
Lieut. Maynard, whose elapsed and fly
ing time records are shortest, honors in
the transcontinental race are at present
with the plucky little band from the
Golden Gate. Only fifteen airplanes
started from Frisco. but FIVE of these
have already got through to Mineola.
or the other ten two are still on their
~ay. The remaining eight crashed
somewhere along the route. principally
among snowstorms and rough country
about the Rocky Mountains OF the
twenty-six men who left San Francisco
in the fifteen planes nine are in New
York three are on the way, eleven are
scattered about the western end of the
route only slightly bruised from crashes,
and three are dead.
Seven Reach Golden Gate.
So far only seven of the forty-seyen
lI.neola planes have won through to
the Golden Gate, while twenty-five have
crashed, including two totally wrecked
yesterday without badly injuring the
pilots or observers. The Mneola fiers
are scattered at almost every one of
the twenty control stations along the
way.
The men who Joined Lieut.. Maynard
at San Francisco yesterday were Capt.
~ ..a1-z II h. VDaa 80
at Al :29 P. NJ, Lieut.. Alexander Pear
son, Jr 2:25 p. NJ; Capt. ]. o. Donald
son. 2:49; Lieut. Earl Manzeiman,
4;34:5o; Capt Harry Smith, 5 AZ ;5s,
and Lieut.. l.. s. Webster, :29. .-
Capt. Smiths arrival at San Francisco
was perhaps even more dramatic than
Lieut.. Maynard's. AS he levelled put
after the downward dive, one wheel oil
his swiftly flying ship struck the land
ing field hard and collapsed The plane
bumped short distance across the field
and then tilted up on its nose. Boil
Capt Smith and his observer. Capt
Truman w. Allen, escaped from the shiI
without injury. 1t probably can be re-
paired.
Arrivals mt MineOia. 81
The arrivals at Mineola were Capt
ond Lieut.. H. r. Queens, :46 z. NJ, ant
Second Lieut. Robert s. Worthington
2:17 :03 p NJ. Major Carl Spatz and
Lieut., z. c. Kiel arrived on Saturday
Capt Smith led the eastward bounC
fiers until Cleveland was reached
There he landed in the wrong field and
his plane turned over, breaking a. stru
and the propeller. Had 1t not been fo
this accident, which delayed him foul
nj A,-fv
have been between twenty-four ant
twenty five hours, or less than thu
twenty-four hours and hfty-seven min
ules taken by Maynard The good tint
OF the San Francisco fiers is due in par
10 following winds and better weathe
than that encountered by the westboun'
contestants. All the Frisco fiiers, how
ever, flew some hours in rain and snow
Two OF the ships that finished tn
FIRST half of the long grind yesterda,
were tiny single-seated SE-5s d British
one-man scout model Capt, Donaldson
pnoted one of these into San Francisco
while Lieut. Worthington landed tn
other at Mneola. The little ships ar
not so fleet as the De Havilands flow
r. the other arriving contestants, 70
their motors are less than half as pow
srful as the big Liberty 400 horsepowe
engines in the OH planes.
westbound Planes Fall.
Both the total crashes yesterda
were of westbound planes. Out I
Nebraska, a few miles from the tow
of Oconto, a DH-4, piloted by Lieu
II. .. Norris, with II. J. Meyer, a me
ohanlc, also on board, crashed into
Hill as the pilot was bringing it I
earth In a heavy fog. The men wer
bruised and shaken.
The other wreck occurred when
DH-i, driven by Lieut.. 7. Haynes. wit
Lieut. Cleveland McDermot and Privat
Theodore Lake, as passengers, fyin
from Mineola to Binghamton on a re
start 'overshot" the Binghamton cor
troll in landing and fell into a tangl
OF telegraph wires. The plane was &c
tally demolished. but all three me
escaped with slight cuts.
No change has yet come from Wash
ington In the orders that provide this
contestants shall start the return tn
In not more than ninety-six or less tina
tortFeiEht hours after arrival at I'll
coast points. Both Major Spatz an
Lieut. kiel rointed out on arrival tha
taeir machines were in no shape
make tho return Journey and expresse
an unwillingness 10 attempt 1t. A
'oree fiers who arrived here yesterda.
on the other hand, were eager for III
race back to see II they could fnis
hrat' Lieut. Worthington's SE-5 neet
a. new engine. but he expressed III
hopa that he could get $50 horsepows
motor Installed before the time lin
elapsed