The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-27

| drinks were on Commander Read.
The bride and bridegroom hurried
from the field to pursue their honeymoon
where there will not be 100000 to watch
them. Lieut.. Eugene Barkdale, the best
| man, few the plane in which the min
| lister rode and read. Upon arriving at
| the official box Deputy Police Commits
| sioner Wallis, in charge of the games,
presented to the bride n huge and mag
| nificent bouquet, for which Park Com
missioner Galiatin had Communicated
every blossom in the Central Park
greenhouses and gardens In the morning.
Another thrilling air feat was the leap
Of Lieut. Hiram w. Sheridan, hand
cuffed, from a plane hearly 1000 feet
in the air. Gov. Smith locked the hand
cuffs on the young aviator and he took
a jaunty seat on the extreme tip OF the
wing, while his cornrhsde, lieut. Phil
Downes raised the bus of the ground
with weight thus disposed for the first
| time In aviation history Sailing into
the wind Sheridan leapedt,when the plane
was way over the turn sinto the back
| sti etch.
The wind was toward the grand stand,
and as he dropped II seemed certain
that he would land in the midst Of the
great crowd. His body wriggled, how
ever, his manacled hands, deftly rnanip-
ulated the ropes and he came to earth
squareiy before the press box In the
grass stretch over which the mounted
police q moment before had been ca
vortinFs He was brought to the grand
stand stiil manaeled and Gov. Smith took
| the key from his pocket and turned him
loose
| That was the way the whole pro-
| gramme worked--one thrill crowding
another. The day began officially with
a luncheon In the Waldorf In honor Of
the Governor, whose day 1t was at the
games. There nearly 500 guests cheered
the arrival OF the Governor and the In
! PRODUCTION of the more recently popular
ZAP Read. Commander. u. s.
! N, the FIRST man to fly the Atlantic
| Ocean.
! Gov. Smith in a brief speech praised
the New York police as one of the
greatest bodies Of disciplined men I'm
the world, and thanked every one who
had helped to bring about the success
Of the games.
Commissioner Enright thanked the
army and the navy particularly for
a success. At the guests table sat
Major-Gen. Robert Alexander, COM
mander Of the Seventy-seventh Division I;
Major-Qen. Thomas II. Barry, Admiral
Glennon and the Prince of Abyssinia
and his suite. The latter were accom-
panied by representatives of the war
and State departments and went later
to the games in the great procession Of
official cars which raced down Fifth
avenue, Lafayette street. across the
Manhattan Bridge. through Flatbush
avenue, Prospect Park West and Ocean
Parkway.
Some There mt 8 A. NJ.
At the luncheon Commissioner Wallis,
who presided, received word that the
grand stand was filled. 1t holds about
fifty thousand persons. Since o'clock
in the morning thousand police and
several hundred soldiers had been on
duty there and the crowd began to ar
rive shortly after 3. When the official
party passed the gate at o'clock every
available place in the two tiers of the
grand stand was filled save those re-
served for the official guests. and sea
of straw hats and summer bonnets
flooded the huge infield.
When the games had got under way
the police in charge of this infield crowd
sent word that they could not safely
handle another man, woman or child.
The crowd had swayed dangerously sew
eral times from one part of the field to
the other and 1t looked once as II some
OF them would be trodden by the police
horses in the circus or blown UP by the
aerial bombs and mines prepared for the
sham battle.
When Commissioner Wallis heard
this report he ordered the gates closed.
At that time 1t was estimated that
there were nearly 100000 persons with
in the enclosure At least $4,000 more
stormed outside the gates, many OF
them with tickets they had purchased.
Commissioner Enright looked this
crowd over and then ordered that the
gates be opened to those who already
held tickets. The sale of admissions
was discontinued. The new arrivals
were permitted TO swarm into the re-
served places In the grand stand which
had not been taken UP and into odd
corners about the enclosure where the
events had been cleared away.
The transportation service to and
from the field proved wholly inadequate
to meet the call put upon it From an
early hour in the morning people fought
on the Brooklyn Bridge platforms for
places on the special trains run to che
field. Each one was filled to suffocation
before it left the terminal. So were the
local trains, and at every local station
in Brooklyn hundreds of persons were
disappointed In their efforts to reach the
Speedway. Trolley lines were similarly
damned. as was the subway to Coney
. | Island which thousands took, seeking to
, get from there to Sheepshead by trolley
, OF taxi. Returning. the rush was even
worse. as a slight sprinkle of rain and a
, threat of hunder We're driving the
crowds. Many women and children were
, crushed and slightly injured, though nc
serious accidents had been reported to
the police up to a late hour last night
II Nearly 1000 automobiles were parked
i'll the Speedway and hundreds more
! were left outside the gates for blocks In
every direction.
> New Ten Mile Record Made.
The ten mile automobile record was
smashed by Tom Milton in Deusenberg
! when he covered the course in :18 as
Dan Lewis was second in Meteor In
! 5 20, and CASTOR Chevrolet in a Chevro.
: let was third I'm s rs 2-5.
The results of the other events were
as follows:
100 Yard Dash. Handicap-James Nc.
CURE. Forthwith precinct first: Thomai
George Sheridan. Trafne A, third. Time
Is Pound shotput. Handieap-open t,
!. Police Reserves. Arthur Hunt. Forty ninti
precinct. first; James Miles, Fifty-seventt
/ precinct, second; Daniel o'Mara, Train,
$50 Yard Handicap-Open to member
of the New York Police Department who
have been in Sunited States serviee-Franl
Laurita, Eighteenth district, first; Johi
, Leonard, soventy-elghth precinct, second
cinct third Time x aecond