The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-26

After flying at approximately three
miles a minute for 1872 miles Capt
c. G. Mosley in q Vervile plane with
600 horse power Packard motor, won
the Pulitzer trophy for the army yea
terday at Mitchell Field. Mineola.
L. I. At the same time he smashed
the record made by Sadi Lecointe,
French pilot. at the recent Gordon
Bennett cup race in France. Mosley's
time was At rinutes 20 81 seconds
The winged bullet piloted by Mos
ley had failed ANONYMOUSLY In the
contest in France, as il did not COM
plete the 1856 mile course, but yester-
day it came back strong. and its aver
miles faster than that of the Niauport
special which had captured The Ben
nett cup. And this record was made
despite the fact that the motor was
missing badly as the Verville shot
over the starting line and never dur
ing the flight attained its full power
Although the army Vcrville made the
swiftest and most spectacular run or
the day. other planes by no means were
disgraced. Capt. II. L. Hartney. Ameri-
can ace, sent his Thomas Morse scout
with 300-horsepower Wright motor,
around the course in just two and half
minutes longer than the time made by
the Verville, with double her power
His average was 1885 miles an hour
Large Crowd Sees Contest.
Thirty thousand persons. most Of
whom previously had confined their in
terest in aviation to reading of airplane
accidents, gathered at Mitchell Field and
at other fields at the turning points on
the triangular thirty-two mile laps
Lufbery Field. near Wantagh, and
Henry J. Damn Field. at Babylon. They
saw forty machines. including racing
machines whose operation requires great
skill, go through the strenuous days fly
ing with no fatalities or serious Injuries
TO contestants or spectators.
1t was to most of them a striking
and almost unbelievable demonstration
Of aviations safety and certainty. They
went home convinced that football is n
dangerous sport, but that flying ranks
more with chess That was one thing
the Aero Club of America desired, for
the race was designed TO stimulate be-
lief in living.
From start to finish It was a hard bat.
tie OF man against man, of service
against civilians. and OF army. navy ami
marine corps most strenuously against
one another The chief rooter for the
army was Gen. Pershing, and the
chief nourner for the navy was Jose
phus Daniels, Secretary OF the Navy.
Although the army air officers were
most joyously certain that they had
shown up the navy as that branch OF
the service was never before, impartial
observers were by no means convinced
that all the laurels were won by the
army. The army won seven of the first
ten places in the big contest Of the day
the Pulitzer trophy race--out had
twenty-five entries. including most OF the
fastest ships In the race. The navy,
which won two OF the frst ten places
arh and tenth--had only eight entries.
and were on dry. comparatively dry land
70 boot.
The Marine Corps. with seven entries.
was out of luck, for none OF the first
ten was a soldier Of the sea. OF the four
civilian entries Bert Acosta. dark horse,
plloted his italian Ansaldo SVA with
200 horse power SPA motor into third
place, which was going some In that
aggregation OF star service fliers. Lieut..
ST. Clair street was fourth.
winner of Hard Luck Honors.
Hard luck honors went 70 Lieut. B. @.
Bradley of the Marine Corps. bradley
handled the controls Of II Lo. ming Spe-
,ial. with 900 horse power Wright motor.
a monoplane with its single wing clipped
10 a scant twcnty-nine feet for speed 3
rakc. He roared around three of the
sour laps at about 55 miles an hour. n
need sufficient to win him third place.
Then a connection broke and the water
which was cooling his roaring motor
trained out into the air. Although his
life might d pend upon picking out "a
..nooth landing place. Bradley kept dog
pedly around the course. nursing the
,s pidly heating motor with all hts skill.
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