The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-11
PACIFICFLIERS
. HOPE TO REACH
MINEOLA TO-DAY
Three Contestants at Bryan,
Ohio. $50 Miles From
Their Goal.
FIFTH AVIATOR KILLED
Six More Machines DOwned-
Maynard's Record Now
2.183 Miles.

After losing his lead in the trans
continental race for the first time since
Wednesday. Lieut.. Belvin w. May
nard. the flying parson," regained 1t
again late yesterday afternoon by a
swift and desperate dash over the
tagged peaks of the Rocky Mountains,
among which one contestant met
Death in a snowstorm. The race is
still much in doubt. however.
Lieut., Maynard dropped gently onto
the Buena Vista flying field at Salt
Lake City yesterday afternoon at
$3.50, after successfully plotting his
plane through the thin air, bitter tenn
peratures and uncertain. wild gales OF
the big mountains where the ground
altitude for hundreds of miles is be-
tween six and seven thousand feet. He
had flown high and was chilled to the
bone by the rush Of the wind, and so
was his observer and Trixie, his Ger
man police pup mascot, but he refused
10 think of stopping while daylight
lasted
II encountered the roughest going
Of the entire trip between Rawlings
and Salt Lake." Lieut.. Maynard said
on arrival at Salt Lake. 81 had to
hattie with a severe north wind and
my speed was slowed considerably for
that reason" n
Expects TO End Trip To-day.
Lieut. Maynard said just before re-
suming his flight to Salduro that he
expected to arrive in San Francisco In
time for luncheon to-day.
Just before his hop off" from Salt
Lake the police dog Trixie, which has
made the trip from Mineola with him.
jumped from the airpiane and ran
across the field, with the Lieutenant
after him. The dog was caught just
in time to resume the flight within the
set time.
"Parson, the sinners are with you!
yelled a man in the crowd at the nelo
just as the propeller began to turn for
the hop off" for Salduro.
At sos he climbed into his machine
and SCARED into the air.
Fifty eight minutes later he made
perfect landing at Salduro, 100 miles
west Of Salt Lake City, and there ne
was content to rest until this morning.
He is only 5lS miles from San Fran
cisco and in three days of flying in
Guiding sixteen stops and a delay OF
half a day. he has covered 2,lS3 miles.
Two mountain ranges, the Sierra
Nevada and the Coast range. separate
him from his destination, but these
are slight barriers after breaking
through the icy barricade of the
Rockies.
Enstbound FIiers PROFIT.
Meanwhile the filers of the Paciii'
slope, who faced the Rockies early II
their race across the continent, have
been pronting bv the favoring breezes
and broad prairies which they have
reached. Unless something goes wrong
three pilots who left San Francisco
Wednesday morning will glide down or
TO Roosevelt Field, Mineola, this after
noon. The three, Capt Lowell II. smith
Major Carl Spatz and Second Lieut.. Il
T. Kiel, reached Bryan, Ohio, 141 miles
Vest Of Cleveland. yesterday afternoon
ihere remain only $50 miles between
them and their destination.
Just who wins the biggest race II
The history OF aSiation-and indeed on'
OF the biggest of the. world, for II /.
not often that a continent is raceNacl
depends upon who gets up earliest II
ihe morning, who has the best fortune
IN the matter OF mechanics and weather
ma who can most stoutly withstand th'
snlling strain Of plotting roaring
WIND shaken plane through many miles
Of space.
Prevailing winds favor the fiiers from
.he Pacific, as they have during the en-
ure race, while Lieut.. Maynard, fiyint
WIN the sun, has had the advantage
ol longe' hours Of daylight. Lieut. May
Lsrd hies d 400 horsepower De Havi
ishd plane with a Liberty motor, as do
We other leading flers.
phly one crash of fatal consequence
occurred during the day. although fiv,
yr SIX machines were smashed in land
ms, three being in that district betweeI
saN Lake city and Cheyenne wher
we mountains tower 5000 feet and tn
Is MN and planes are unmanageabl'
!. Consequence. AT the Buffalo hyinI
1neu Worth d. Mcclure. observer OIL
- .F Fere plane No. 2i. was hurled from
we aTrane and killed when 1t made |
crash landing.
riot Cannot Locate Field.
Halor ~ l.. Sneed pilot of the plane
"o mas been held up at the first con
sph hy bad fortune and bad weather
~" Hon Rochester to Buffalo, wher
appeared TO be uncertain as TO tn
Moper landing field. which is that o
~, NtIt'ss company. He gided frs
"aro an open field near the, Curtis
ouhas' out then. realizing his mistake
banked about In a half circle an
The Tne down 400 yards from the hangers
"e plane hit the ground hard an
Continued on Tenth PaDe.