Evening star., 1919-10-13
40 FLYERS RESUME
FLIGHTS IN DERBY
Smith Reaches Mineola,
Claiming He Has Beaten
Maynard's Record.
DRAYTON NEARS FRISCO

MINEoLA. v. ". October 13.-Ac-
cordinG TO the record in Capt.
smiths log book he has beaten
Lieut.. Maynard I'm the transrOnti-.
mental race. Capt. smiths figures
show that he flew from SAN Fran
cisco TO Ninrola in 24 hours 10
minutes flying time. a. against
Lieut.. Maynard's - hours 51 min
ute> and Isl. seconds from MincoIn
to san Francisco. Capt. smiths
ciaim 10 he victor will 'hnyc 10 he
officially verified before n decision
is made.
Capt. smith said that but for an
accident at Cleveland, where he
broke several parts of his ma
chine In landing, he would have
beaten Mai. spatz and Lieut.. I<icI
here.
A leaky radiator. which he tried
to patch up with corn meni. found
him arriving here with water fiow-
ing freely from his radintor. lie
was anxious TO he of on his re-
turn trip, he safd, and was con-
fidcnt of "wfnninG the race."
Capt. Smith WINS suffering
yerely from cold when he landed.
By tho Associated Press.
CHICAGO. October 13 - After L
days rest, and with moro favorable
weather over nearly the entire course,
forty Army aviators today resumed
their flights in the transcontinental
aerial derby.
Clear cold weather with moderate
winds was reported from most of tho
control stations, with the exception
OF those in Nebraska, where foggy
weather interfered with the sch edules
of several OF the flyers.
Smith Third to Reach Mineola.
Capt. Lowell II. Smith. who arrived at
Mineola at 1880 am. today. was the
third flyer to complete the first OF
the trip from San Francisco. He left
Rochester at 7:i0 am. and made the
trip to Mineola in what is believed
to be record time. Two other flyers
are expected to reach Mineola be-
fore the end of the day. They are
Lieut.. Il. S. Worthington and Lieut..
II. +. Queens, who left Cleveland early
this morning on the last leg OF their
eastbound journey.
Capt. Harry Drayton left Reno
headed for San Francisco early in
the day, with indications that he
would be the second flyer to finish
the first half of the transcontinental
trip among the westbound contingent.
He arrived at Mather Field, fourteen
miles from Sacramento, at S:54:53
this morning.
Others in the west bound group who
expected to reach San Francisco to-
day were Lieut.. L. $. Webster, Capt.
j. o. Donaldson and Lieut.. Alexander
Pearson, jr.. who left Salduro. Titan.
and Capt. Harry Smith and Lieut.. r.
NJ. ManZelman, who left Green River
for the Pacific coast.
II Leave Cleveland; 4 Buffalo.
Eleven west bound flyers left Cleve-
land early in the day. while four
others hoped off from Buffalo, head
ed for San Francisco.
Half dozen flyers passed one an
other in Chicago during the morning.
A dozen flyers were strung out be-
tween Chicago and Salt Lake City.
racing toward the Pacific coast. All
the flyers expect to reach their des-
tinations before tomorrow night.
Maynard May Start Tomorrow.
Reports received from San Fran
cisco were to the effect that Lieut..
Maynard, the flying parson," who fin
ished first, would start the return
flight tomorrow. Maj. Spatz and Lieut..
Kiel did not believe they could be
ready to start west before Wednes-
day, according to reports from Nine
ola.
Lieut.. Maynard said he planned to try
for a transcontinental record in No
vember with a machine adapted par
ticularly for speed, and hoped to fly
from the Atlantic to the Pacific In
two days.
Spatz and Kiel Getting Ready.
Mai. Spytz and Lieut. Kiel. the east
bound fiers who landed at Mineola
Saturday within twenty seconds OF
each other after a nip and tuck race
across the continent which Maj. Spatz
is reported unofficially to have won by
the remarkably narrow margin OF
seconds in a 2,701-mile race,
were working at Mineola on their
weatherbeaten planes today in an
effort to get them ready for the return
trip within the ninty-siX maxi
mum time allowed by the air service
between arrival at a terminus control
and departure on the return flight. 1t
was said that their machines would
require elaborate overhauling and the
fitting of new wings, the old wings
having been rendered unsafe by the
buffeting of wind, rain and snow
which they encountered in the flight
east.
DERBY RETURN TRIP
STARTS IN AZ H0IlRS