The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-19
rs FIiers Get Away From
Roosevelt Field; Four
Down in Fog.
PRIZES TOTAL $3.50
Class A Start Is Tuesday;
Nonstop Flight Begins
: on Wednesday.
BY PAUL w. WHITE
Jnited Press STAIR Correspondel

ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y, Sept.
19.-The class B race, first event of
the three-day Spokane air. derby,
started from this field at dawn to-
day.
Twenty-Five small airplanes, their
motors pounding staccato salute
to the grey-breaking day, roared
down the Roosevelt Field runway
between 7 and 1882 a. m! and sped
away into the West, headed for
Spokane, Wash, 1852 miles away.
OOf the twenty-five planes, twen-
ty had been accounted for up to /
p. m. today.
G. w. Meyers, plotting Waco 10,
entered by Berry Brothers of De-
troit, at that time was the official
leader Of the race.
One Plane Delayed
He had checked into the control
station at Bellefonte, Pa, second,
but A. M. Banks, driving Pitcairn
Fleeting, who arrived at Bellefonte
two minutes ahead of Meyers, en-
countered engine trouble and was
unable to get away in his proper
place.
Up to l p. m, total of thirteen
planes had checked into Belle
fonte, all but one having continued
on to Bryan, Ohio, the next con-
troll. They were due there early in
the afternoon.
-Four other planes had been forced
by fog to land at Tamaqua, Pa. One,
that Of r. E. Dake, had been forced
down at Highbridge, N. j., and an
other, that of r. E. Cantwell, had
failed to get farther from Roosevelt
haield, New York, than Curtiss field.
mile away.
Five planes at that hour had not
been accounted forss~Smw~sarr
Compulsory Stops Listed
The derby ends late Wednesday.
Compulsory five-minute stops are
listed for today at Bellefonte,
Cleveland and Bryan, Ohio, and to-
morrow at st. Paul, Fargo and Bis
mark, N. D. On Wednesday the
planes will stop at Billings and
Missoula, Mont, before reaching
Spokane.
Glass AZ planes with engines of
not more than 300 cubic inches, dis
placement will race toward the
Washington city with one overnight
stop, beginning tomorrow. On
Wednesday unlimited type craft will
engage in a nonstop flight.
Five Prizes Up
Entrants in the race today are
competing for five prizes, totaling
$9,750, with the first five places
earning $4,000, $4,000, $1,000, $500
and $3.50.
The planes took off in the follow
ing orderl
Eagle Rock, j. s. Charles, Rich
mond, Va, pilot.
Hess Bluebird, E. w. Fleet, pilot,
Hartford, Conn.
Pitcairn Fleetwing, A. M. Bates,
pilot, Philadelphia.
Waco-10, r. T. Quinby, pilot,
Rock Island, Ill.
Waco-10, G. w. Meyers, pilot, De-
troit.
Monocoupe, v. L. Roberts, pilot,
Fargo, N. D.
American Eagle, G. B. Mcmahon,
apilot, Miles City, Mont.
" Waco 10, Tex La Gront, pilot,
Kansas City, Mo-
Eagle Rock, L. Miller, pilot, Des
Moines.
Eagle Rock, G. Smith, pilot, Ia
: wonla.
Swallow, r. R. Johnson, pilot,
Missoula, Mont.
Waco 10, A. Litzenberger, pilot,
Erie, Pa.
Waco 10, A. w. Stephenson, pilot,
Dillon, Mont.
Waco-10, L. F. Hughes, pilot,
Wheeling, w. Va.
Travel-Air, Detmer, pilot, Tarry-
town, N. Y.
Travel-Air, w. H. Emery Jr., pilot
Bradford, Pa.
Travel-Air, K. r. Hunger, pilot
Madison, N. j.
Eagle Rock, M. H. McMeehan
pilot, Yakima, Wash.
Travel-Air, r. w. Cantwell, pilot
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Swallow, j. B. Sidowsky, Coffey-
vile, Okla.
Waco, R. E. Dake, pilot, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
American Eagle, S. Darius pilot
Chicago.
Waco-1o, E. w. Knapp, pilot
Ypsilanti. Mich.
Waco-9, Jack Ashcroft, pilot, %
wanda, Pa.
Laird Commercial, N. Black, pilot
Chicago.