The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-26
MOSELY WINS FIRST P PUL|TZER TROPHY. AERONAUT|CAL RACE.
Flying In American Made Army Plane, Winnef Travels at a Speed of Virtually Three
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! ffsttt<fu iresa Mineola, November 25.-Fly-
 ing af speed of virtually 3
 nalAes minute, Lieut.. c. c. seES p5loting an American 1 iTAas srville-Packard army ] plane, won the first Pulitzer trophy aeronautical race here ltcaay against a field of 34 lsrarters.
 itie covered the course of slightly sHAore than 1S2 miles in A minutes. ss e1-loo seconds, an average speed 1 of se1reytmatelo' 1 $ miles an hortf f Officials of the Aero cIub of Arneri- i ca~hich conducted the race. first nav ins estimated the course as t40 miles in length, announced immediately after the race that the Mosely's average speed was 1884 miles an hour new worlds record. However. careful re- scaling of the official map tonight showed thae the laps were slightly more than 32 miles in length, instead of S5, the average speed on the cor 1 iected length being cut down 10 miles au hour. It is expected that survey of the course will be made in order that exact computation may be estab- lished
 The present worlds aviation speed record is held by Sadi Leointe, winner of the recent GordoA- Bennett trophy ace in France. who averaged 187 miles an hour in a special. contest at Villa Goublay. near Paris. ten days after he won the international tro- phy In the Gordon Bennett race over a course of 1863 miles, Lecointe av- eraged slightly more than 169 miles an hour, although he had made i741s miles an hour in the trials.
 Captain II. F. Hartney. flying an American army Thomas Morse ma chine. came in second today flying the course in 4T minutes and 3-f00 seconds. Albert Acosta, civilian, won third place with his Italian made Ansaldo S. A. machine. Ills time was 51 nin- utes, 57 62-100 seconds. This was the only one of the eleven foreign made machines entered to finish among the first ten.
 SEVEN UNABLE TO START
 Seven machines met with accident during the day and were unable to finish, although in no case was the pilot seriously injured~ Just before the race started. an army plane piloted by Lieutenant c. c. Kelly which iiad just alighted after a practice spin. col lideJ with a navy plane piloted by Lieutenant J. F.. wolfer. who was about to take. off
 Three of Kelly,s teeth were knocked out and Wolfer's hand was cut.
 A Looming special machine piloted by Lieutenant D. c. Bradley of the United states marine corps, made forced landing within 800 yards of the finish on the last lap A water con nectipn had broken and the plane drop red lo the around but the pilot was un- injured Bradley had covered the first trree laps in S7 minutes, 3S S7-1oo sec onds and was a strong contender for second place when the accident hap pened
 Major Davenport Johnson. T. s. A., -ir a Deliaviland: Lieut.. J W. Guibert- son T.. S NJ C., in Curtiss; Lieut. r. A Johnson, IT. s. A. in a S. F--5, and Lieut. F O. Rogers Y. s. NJ. C.. in a DeI4avilard also made forced land .ings along the course because of en- zine trouble or other minor difficult
 Lieutenant Leigh Wade, United $ ates Army: Capt II P. MinIs, United States Marine Corps; Ensign W. J. Daily, Emitted states Navy and Lieut.. Com uiander w. D. ftdFiidHu aloo idiifN '" finish. Lieut. I. "A. smith descended after covering three laps, having snis- Taken the length of the course, and Wills P. Taylor, a civilian was dis qualified for "cutting corners at one of the turns.
 The course was from Mineola 10 wantagh. thence 10 Babylon ana Lack to Mineola Owing to 8 northerly wind. the plan of having the machines start .ir, groups of three to seven and cross the barrier simultaneousiy was aban- |doned. The ayiators having to take off lin the wind were forced to make sharp turn after crossing the staring mark Members of the contest com mittee feared that serious acciden ts might happen if the several machines tried to cut corners at the same lime. the outside machine also being placed at disadvantage beca,lse of being forced to make.a wider turn.
 Instead. the machines were sent off one at time at intervals of few min. utes. Captain Hartney was the first to get away. and he had covered two laps of the course before the last ma
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