Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-12-02
LIEUT.. MOSLEY Wins
GREAT Al R R A &c
First in the Pulitzer Trophy
Contest Against Field of "a
Travels 3 Miles a Minute in
Verville.Packard Plane

Mineola, y. Y. Nov. 25-Flyins at
speed Of virtually three mica inmate.
Lieutenant c. c. Mosley, pilotlts III Am.
erican-made Verville- Packard trI,v
plane. won the first Pulitzer trophy aero.
nautical race here to-day against n fed
of "a starters. He covered the cou.sa ~
slightly over 1872 miles in a minutes. -
and 81 seconds, an average speed OF IN
miles an hour
Officials Of the Aero Club Of America
which conducted the race, first having os-
timated the course 40 miles in length
announced Immediately after the race
that Mosley's average speed was is
miles an hour, a new worlds record
However, careful re-scaing 80 the
official map tonight showed that ~,
laps we're slightly more thnn 81 miles ~
longth. instead Of IS. the average spec
on the corrected length being cut doWr
10 miles an hour. 1t &c expected that
survey OF the course will be made in
order that exact computations may be
established.
The present worlds aviation speed rec.
ord IL held by Sad Lecointe. winner OF
the recent Gordon Bennett trophy race IN
France, who averaged 1s7 miss an hoG.
in special contest at Villa CJIbIay. nenr
Paris, ten days after he won ne inter
national trophy. In the Gordon Bennett
race over a course Of 1863 miles. Lacnin.o
averaged slightly more than !GG rnles an
hour, although he had made ia IL miles
an hour In the trials.
Captain II. L. Hartney. flying an
American Army Thomas Morse machine
came In second. covering tho course IN
Al minutes and 3lc seconds. Albert
Acosts. a civilian, won third p,aro with
his ItaliAn-naue Ansado s. v. a.
chine. His time WAS 81 minutes. 81 and
s2.10o seconds. This was the only one Of
the II foreign-made machines entered to
finish among the first ten.
Seven machines met with accident dur
ing the day and were unable to finish.
although in no case was the pilot seri-
ously injured.
The course was from Mineola TO Wan
tagh, thence to Babylon and back to
Mineola.
The machines were sent off one at a
time at intervals of a few minutes. Cap
tain IIartney was the first to get away
and he had covered two laps of the
course before the last machine had left
the ground. Lieutenant Mosley, the vim
ner was the last to take off.
TWO protests are likely TO be made
against some OF the winners. Official
time Keepers declared that Albert Acosta.
civilian flyer whHe manoeuvering for
position. crossed the starting line and
then circled, crossing again and started
on the course. His second starting time
was the one used In the official esu-
mates. although If this IS later dlsallowed
and the first time is used he probably
will be placed fourth instead of third.
I Members of the contest committee also
heard unofficially that the plane ploted
by Lieut.. j. r. Eoulot. winner in tho
DeHaviland class. had been altered. con-
trary to regulations governing the con-
test.
Ten thousand persons watched the race
from Mitchell Field and adjacent points,
while several Thousand others were
gathered along the Long Island roads and
. At the two turning points. General
Pershing. Secretary OF the Navy Daniels
Major-Gen Charles Z. Meneher chie'
of the army air service, Brig.-Cicn. Will
liam Mitchell, director of air service OPP
crations. and BriE. Gen. l.. L. .. Charl.
ton. British air attache. were among the
= distinguished guests occupying seats In
the grandstand
II great day for tho army. In
addition to placing seven of it's mer
among the first ten, the army Won q
: private fight from the navy when repre-
sentatives of the enlisted men of each
engaged in . little battle OF fsticuf.
before the grandstand 4 sailor was
walking past when he accidentally
! kno' ired of the hat 81 soldier On guart
. dI;y. ,ha headsear Ealing IN a poet O
= water, Instantly the soldier gave hs III
y aud WITS getting much the hotter ii nj
performances when ,Gc combs tar,a wer'
separated Genera, rcrshng lGushet
with g.ce ats he watched the performance
L but Sec-ets-y Dan-s scnw,et d bit Cr'
= said nothing.