Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-10-13
MACHINES DRIVEN
BY LIBERTY MOTOR
| TAKE FIRST HON0RS
Prize Offered by Detroit
News Is Won bv
fastener.
TRAVELS MORE THAN
l05 MILES PER HOUR
Lieutenant Nelson Has Little
Trouble Disposing of
Competitors.
lHy AssociatcI Press

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MOUNT CLEMENS. MICH. oc, 70
--PiotirG a heavy Martin transport.
driven bv two a0o-hor.cpowa. LIN
eity motors. Lieutenant Erie II. Mel
son. of Mont:!air, X j.. won tn.
bcir"i' News aerial mali trophy -ac.
FOR muIlimo;or-d planes here today.
lie covered the 2iG-;ni!c triangular
Course AZ AN averaEc speed - 1851
niles an hour. The Detroit \vIa-
t:on Country club trophy race. aown
over IN" same course, vas won By
lieutenant Harold II. Harris. ono Of
the Two :,rmy entrants. IN ;ne Hon
"!in"on Express. equipped with a
ico-""rsepow"r Liberty, mo-
tor. Lieutenant harris averaged 1875
miles ',n hour In this event, which
was for light commercial planes. fin
lsh.nG -FOUR laps aacad OF =. 8. Jones.
IN curtiss or!o!e. vino averaged
no miles AN hour.
stiT North Wind HIou..
sun north wind, blowing ~ the
tails o! the big planes in the Detro!,
News event. made necessary aDan-
a"nIneut OF the or.gina! plan 81
starting all thc craft together. Con
S.Gucnily IN. planes. each Weighing
ny. tons and having "a wing aprca d
VI seventy tc"i. TOOK tho air ono
after the other. Lieutenant Nelson's
plane t"!HS the last TO cross the
starting line. The transport neghn
g; once 10 overhaul the other racers.
and before the race was three
:ourths over. /; was seen that. unless
forced down. Lieutenant Nelson
All but one plane OF the nine en-
tered in III: two events finished
James NJ. johnson. in IA Vousht V.
E-1. "as forced down III The fourth
lap when d!-t touled his carbure;or.
He landed near the Noun: Clemens
Col: Club and ran into ditch. dam
aging his landing gear and both
wings. Neither Johnson nor his t~u
passengers were injured.
Lieutenant Nelson. who. when n.
aiigh:cd from his plane at the an-
ish, was warmly congratulated by
Ma aio--Gcns-: Mason NJ pa;rtcl
chic! OF the army air service. carried
'hr"" army pr!vates during the fight.
f;nth Lieutenant Nelson and Llcuten-
ant Harris ascTibed their victories
20 the good planes" they piloted.
L!"utenan; Nelson was one OF the
pilots in tho army's New York
Alaska hy!nr expedition in 1920.
Lieutenant Harris is u McCook Field,
Dayton. Ohio. pilot.
Prizes Exceed $1,000
Twelve hundred dollars was
awarded winners OF the two races.
in addition to tho trophies. Prizes
Of $500 and $2s0 were awarded re-
spectively to second and third places
in both events.
Among those who witnessed today's
races were Glenn l.. Martin. designer
OF the planes IN the first event, and
orvilie Wright. who made the first
high; In II heavicr-than plane.
The order in which the planes IN
ioday's two events finished is shown
in the following table:
Detroit News Aerial Mall Trophy
Race
Lieutenant Eric Nelson. Martin
transport. 400-horsepOwcr. two Lib
crty-tw elves.
second. Lieutenant Charles Austin,
Martin bomber. 400-horsepower. two
Liberty y-twe!vcE.
Third, Lieutenant c. c. Cummings.
Martin bomber. 400 horsepower. two
t.iberty-twe!vcs.
Fourth. Lieutenant Phillip Melville.
Martin bomber. 400-horsepower. two
iiberty-twclvcs.
Fifth. Lieutenant G.. L.. Ballard.
Martin bomber. 400 horsepower, two
Liberty-twelVes.
Detroit Aviation Country Club OF
Detroit Race
First. Lieutenant Harold II. IIar-
tis. honeymoon EApress. horse
power 1iucrty-twclvc
Second. &. :. Jones. Curiiss Orio!e.
l6h- horsepower Curtiss Go.
Third. Lieutenant II. s. Worthiug-
ton. rokkcr transport tArmy T-2).
i60-hurscpowcr L!berty-twelvs.