Evening star., 1926-09-12

away speed would stand well up
around 200 miles.
Lieut.. Cuddihy's first experience as
a racing pilot on the "big time" ma
tional and international circuit came
two years ago when he was selected
to fly against Great Britain for the
Schneider cup. The British didn't
take. post, as their racing plane
crashed in the Thames during final
trials. He got another chance at the
Schneider last year against Britain
and Italy but his engine burned up
on the eighth lap and he was forced
to fight fire and land that treacherous
ship in the rough waters of the Chesa-
peake Bay. Just month previous
TO that experience he was entered in
the Pulitzer race at Mitchell Field IN
a Curtiss Hawk and he was forced
down on the airdrome when ms en-
CINE stopped for no reason at all. he
went into the contest none to optl-
mistic in view of his past experiences
but his friends held out that the zoe
ing job would lick the held. A rev,
however, were not so optimistic Tor
Cuddihy. fearing that the 450-horse-
power Pratt-Whitney air-cooled en-
CINE school of thought, rapidly becom-
the Wright Apache would win.
Won Transport trophy.
Although Champion was dlsqual-
flied. his speed averaged around 1'z
miles Der hour, and the air-coole0 en-
CINE school of though, rapidly oecom-
ing a dangerous institution IN this
country to the water-cooled factlon'
are congratulating themselves on the
victory. Champion would have had
third place had he not cut the pylon;
Champion, however, cannot very wen
he censured for his act even thougn
five others lost their chances oL wiz
ming for doing the same thing because
iust a half hour before he entered
This race he had piloted Wright
Rellanca monoplane passenger plane
tn victory in the Detroit News ar
transport trophy. The race was lof
efficiency and speed and was ~ laps
over a 12-mile course. His speed was
191 sal miles per hour and he was
forced under the regulations to carry
$50 pounds of paw load.
Then to top off his eVentful oay
after the pursuit planes had gone
back to the navy yard ana ldiiucu
he rushed back to mouel 1drIiis ~
mother ship, took aboard two women,
two men and a boy IN the bellailo9
and started for Patterson, n. d. Ao
he was getting up speed he saw
motor cycle coming toward MN
carrying a parchute jumper who had
inst landed and to avoid hitting MIN
tha monoplane ground looped' ana
the wing tip crashed into the pylon'
staving in the leading edge and max
ing fying impossible. The passen-
gers were given a little jolt but no
one was injured.
More than once it looked as though
there would be a collision on the
home pylon turn. Down the stretcn
two or three would come. almost
abreast, and then came the test CT
courage conservatism and common
sense. The fellow who usually pulled
off to the side and lost 10 or 10
seconds on his turns was credited
with conservatism and good judg-
ment, certainly not lack of courage
to lock wings at ITO miles an hour
and be dashed to death. The feilow
on the inside had to turn, OF course,
and Champion found himself like
this once. Immediately on his right
with Lieut.. Crumrine in a Boeing
Pursuit plane fitted with an air
cooled Liberty engine mounted up
side down--a wonderful job. Crum-
rine, for that matter. was a little
in the lead and he started to turn in
the seemingly narrow space. Cham-
pion had to turn and he cooked 1t up
on one wing, sending Crumrine out
to the right and good distance
from the pylon. Champion by these
means got the lead, but the air
cooled Liberty job would not give
in to the Apache and within the
next two laps Crumrine had passed
him. He crossed the finish line after
Elliott, giving the impression he was
second and Champion third.
Lieut.. Barner, with his under-pOw-
cred ship, compared with Champion
and Cuddihy, got the maximum out