Evening star., 1925-10-26
Lieut.. DooIittIe, Army Pilot,
First Entrant in Air in
Schneider Dash.
ONE BRITISH SHIP LEFT
IN EVENT; TWO WRECKED
II U. S. Navy Aircraft Are Lost
in Storm-Pulled From Moor
ings by Gale.
BN the AssOcIated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BAY SHORE PARK. Baltimore.
October 26.-Lieut. James II. Doolttle.
driving the United States Army Cur
tiss racer which won the Pulitzer
trophy, took off across the starting
line in a flash of black today, rose
gracefully above the waves to head off
the international Jacques Schneider
trophy seaplane races. His unofficial
take off time was 2:40 pm. The other
contestants took the air at 5minute
intervals.
Capt. Hubert Broad, in Great
Britain's Gloster- Napier III. roared
past the stand and disappeared in the
direction of the first pylon.
Lieut.. George T. Cuddihy. in the
Navy's No. 3 Curtiss, took off across
the starting line shortly after the
third signal rocket was fired.
Italy's No. Macchi flying boat,
to have been piloted by Ricardo
Morselli. was backed into its hangar
take-off, and Mario Castoldi, it's de-
signer. said engine trouble would pre-
vent its entry.
Lieut. Ralph A. Ofstie. with the
No. ! Navy plane in which Lieut.
Williams made 302 miles an hour and
which was second in the Pulitzer
race, was fourth away as scheduled.
Great Britains challengers We're
definitely reduced to one this morning
when Pilot Bert Hinkler, in Britain's s
reserve plane, Gloster Napier Ill,
went through his pontoons in landing
on the Chesapeake at the start of his
third attempt to qualify. The Gloster
was towed to her hangar with
its pontoons smashed and it's un-
derrigging torn loose. one wing bent
and its propeller blades in the water
The pilot, brought in by gig from
the L. S. S. Shawmut, was not hurt
He said he found the surface upon
landing rougher than he expected.
Capt. Hubart Broad. in Great Brit
aims Gloster Napier III, which pass
ed its navigability test last Friday.
will be the only British plane to enter
the race this afternoon.
One British Plane Ready.
Capt. Broad's Gloster was the only
one of the three seaplanes brought to
this country by Great Britain for the
Schneider Cup to escape misfortune
Supermarine Napier S-4, in the cock
pit of which Engla ands fondest cup
hopes rode, crashed llst Friday with
Capt. Henry c. Biard. Two previous
attempts by Pilot Hinkler to qualify
the reserve Gloster had failed.
Capt. c. B. Wilson, leader of the
British team. held out hopes that
another attempt to put the reserve
plane in the race might yet be made
until the damaged GloSter reached
the hangar runway. riding with her
nose in the bay. Hinkler had taken
off for trial spin. had made one
short circle over the bay and was
landing for his first taxing test when
he hit the water in a shower of
spray, the tail of his pontoons strik-
ing first and buckling under the
strain.
Italians i'm Trouble.
At shortly after / o'clock, the
Italians tuning up, were in trouble
with their motors Two theories were
advanced by the planes handlers that
two grades of gasoline brought to the
hangers for the Italian planes mad
vertantly had become mixed, and that
rain water had penetrated the fuel
drums.
The motor experts working with the
machines declared the engines prob
ably could not function properly until
the feed lines had been cleaned An
attempt was being made to put the
motors again in trim before time tor
the take-off, less than two hours away
The Schneider rules prohibit changes
in engines after the navigability tests,
and the Italians were in some doubt
as to whether the cleaning apparently
necessary would disqualify them.
Ten United States seaplanes were
battered into shapeless heaps and
seven less seriously damaged yester-
day when, under the buffeting of a
terrific southwest gale. they dragged
with them or broke loose from AS
pound anchors and piled up along sew
eraI miles of seawall and beach at
Sellers Point, near the mouth of the
Patapsco River. Six other machines
safely rode out the storm.
The planes were a double detach-
ment from Hampton Roads, 10 at
tached to scouting squadron VS-1,
six to torpedo squadron VII, while
the seventeenth machine wrecked was
a staff plane. All had been at anchor
off the point since last Friday, when
they were brought here to take part
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