Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1927, Page 3

AIR SPEED TROPHY Wright Field Flyer Takes| Liberty Engine Prize. | Other Winners. Ds the A FEL September 2 that called out the speediest planes of the military and together with tiny rt ma d the Army’s nt tri- ) «motored Fokker transport ship, ended the seventh ional air races here ! today. | In a speed cont the 1 engine builders’ trophy. two spec motored Curtiss <hips , iloted by 1 H. A. Johnson of Wright Liceut. G. A. McHenry Crockett, Tex. easily three slower Douglas ol planes, driven by Lieut (y Lieut. V. A. Gran « oy and Lieut. \W. K 3u Field. Lieut. Johnson ave! miles per hot The premier planes toda Dettmer of averaged 1 miles in a Richter., ji., Los J Rock plane, was Mevyers, Troy, Ohio, third, The prizes and $400 ated Press TELD, An air rac commercial | for hert iy o | eut. W W 5 | and | ort | tanced | | n type | - > vior s Wednesday | t priz ] He flew a won the ed time rd commercial Fleld ss of Clover |00 fi ed 170.156 | 19:4. )I\Irm\‘ commercial | Other official results of the class A by Eugene | race N 1B B r 80 | comm 1, \ul | 000 with an elapsed time of 20 Third prize of §2,000 went l(\vA . | Mamer, " Spokane. ‘who flew in Bubl airster in an elapsed time race for was won Tarrytown, llough, Chieago, in a Laird won second prize of $5.- 10. B. his of £600 | 20 3 : | " John P. Wood, Wausau, Wi Waco 10 plane, won fourth p with an clapsed time were $1,000 .ina| e of eld Plane Wins. $ of e from | 2 oted by | v Field, | 1 won the trophy | of race for large cap over | In the class B event, Meyer: a distance of 60 miles around a 6-mile | waco 10, won the first prize of $5 | with an ‘clapsed time of 30 hours Selfridge | pinutes, 15:45 seconds, Referee E. Douglas transport plane. | Goff, ir.. announced. finished 1 and Lieut. T. F Leslie Miller, Des Moines, Towa, in Koenig sy Field, in a Dougl glerock, was second and won- a transport, was third, e, ' His time was 30 hours speed 13.8 seconds. 5 Charles, Richmond, Va.. with glerock. was third with an sed time of 31 hours 48 minutes Prize, $1,000. EN. FECHET PLEA " prize of $500 was won by E Chicago, with an elapsed time 00:09. H. W Tackard Lieut H. Doolittle of N for the 198 mil Lieut. Doolittle’s ave! miles and Lieut. k average cf 81.285 mil |3 A midget Heath parasol plane won | {wo races without competition, with 1. B. Heath of Chicago in the cock pit, with first prizes of $500 each, be-| cause of an accident to the only other | Jack of D. Assistant Air Chief Enthusiastic Over Johnson’s Exploit. rig. Gen. James E. Fechet, st- of of the Atmy Air Corps, last entrant, Irwin sac Calif. A feature of the stunt program w a special parachute jump by Filda; Drabold, 1%-vear-old high school | night was overjoyed on being in- <enior of Tacoma. who had made but | formed that Licut. H. A. Johnson had one other jump last Summer at her |flown at an average speed of 170.156 home town. miles per hour in winning the Liberty In winning the Liberty Ingine|engine builders' trophy race at Spo- Builders' trophy event, Lieut. Johnson | kane. He characterized the flight as fiew a Curt biplane with a new | “certainly grea » and declared Curtiss V-1550 motor, rated at 700 |it was the fastest any military ob- horsepower. | servation plane had ever flown in this Test for Motors. | country, if not in the world. " Ge ot said the plane was an Lieut. ~ MeHenry, who finished |4 p " curtiss 0-1, known as the Fal- sccond, flew a plane of the samg type | &0 Do O Wi o Curtiss With ‘an identical - engine. Lieut. | SO0 400 Fa8 LTS Sinelof 12 cylin- Johnson’s plane was equipped With {0, % ng ahout 650 horsepower. Two wing radiator, decreasing the wind | " oge ‘Falcons were ordered pre Tesistance, as compared .with Lieut. | 90 S€P [TUEGE CES Ce, one with McHenry's plane, which had a nos» |, = giators and one without. type radiator. The race was regarded | Win radiators Sat 008 W reloped u as a test of the new motors and the {jjiye more than a year ago by the two types of radiators. Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. of Gar- Lieut. - McHenry's ~average speed|go; (ity, Long Island, and was first was 162.306 miles an hour. _ . |used in one American Navy Schneider Lieut. ‘BE. 'C. Batten of Wright |, chajlenger at Norfolk last No- Field, Dayton, Ohio, won the Spokes- | CiP, ChalenElr ot ancement over uap-Review freefor-all trophy race | PR IS o ngines now used for Army., Navy and Marine COIDS |y "tje Army Air Corps in observation planes, hurling his Curtiss-Hawlk [ 28450 S04 Dlnes. over a 120-mile course at a speed often | “mpespeed of Lieut. Johnson was xceeding 200 miles an hour in the| ... e; than that of the Army's single- national air races here today. Lieut.| o, ton standard pursuit planes which A. J. Lyon, Wright Field, was second, | oy in a race for this type Friday. and Lieut. L. T. Jeter, San DIego, | phe winning plane in that event made Calif., naval base, third. only 158.41 miles per huurL A slmll;\{r ; ; lanc, flown by Lieut. Lawson H. IOV ey Sor bemh | Banderson of the Marinc Corps, on An attempt to break the world's|Fanderson o (e ade 160 miles per speed record for airplanes earrying a|p ol i another race. weight of 500 kilograms (110231} "o gyccessful performance of Lieut. Dounds) will be made here tomorrow | yopit SEES D P rought about by by Lieut. Johnson. Army officials| iy "y ioh compression engine and the announced today that Lieut. Johnson | ying radiutors, was regarded here last will fly a specially built Curtlss-| jight as being a forceful argument Falcon Army pursuit plane. | for the contention held by some uerial s Porter of Indianapolis, with his | 00 to2 ™ " “this combination eleottical timing machine, will record | ghould be encouraged and developed. the flight. and Carl F. Schory, secre-| It matters not whether the high-com- tary of the contest committee of the | pregsion engine can withstand as National Aeronautic Association spon- | much hard work as the normal power soring the present meet, Will Witness | plants or that the wing radiators are the test. 3 more _vulnerable to enemy fire, as held by The present records are & | =PRIVATE S'Afi'ARlUM Fernand Lasne, French pilot, made 100 kilometers zt an average Convalescents, Invalids and Incurables of 174.622 miles per hour and 500 kilometers at 155.105 miles per 1654 Columbia Road Supt., Col. 8793 Ambulance Service hour. Lieut. Johnson will try to bet- MT. VERNON ter both records. STEAMER Official Derby Results. C. W. Holman, St. Paul, was offi- Charles Macalester Leaves 7th St. Wharf Daily cially declared winner of the New 10 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. fork-to-Spokane class A Cross-coun- 1‘r‘:'rl)erh,\ and C. W. 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Thirty students were arrested and later freed Oak Park boys started the argu ment. said the police, by paintir windows of the Austin school re 'SPAIN ALSO INVOLVED IN TARIFF DISCUSSION | France Marks Time, While Neigh- bor Prepares to Send Commis- sicn for Negotiations Here. !RA[}E IS SET TODAY 'Free-for-All Fight 24, —The Weather Alone Remains Du- 4bious—Crowd Near 200000 | Fills Venice for Event. By the Associated Pres | VENICE, Italy, September 24. | With a crowd of acronautical enthusi- | asts variously estimated at from 100.. | 000 to 200,000 filling to the door every from the luxurious hostelries of Lido to the tiny pensions in the al- ley-like side canals of Venice, and with the men and machines in the pink of condition, everything is ready for tomorrow's Anglo-Italian speed duel for the famous Schneider Cup. Only one element remained dublous this evening—the \eather. Recent storms have made the air menacingly clear and the water smooth, machines will begin taking off at 2:30 p.m. to- morrow. Postponement is possible un- til 4 o’clock, but not later, in order to avold the necessity of landing in the failing light of the. evening. Orders of Take-Off. At intervals of five minutes the rac- ing planes will plunge off, either cross- ing the line on the water or in the a in the following order: Lieut. §. N Kinkead (British), Maj. Mario de Ber: nardi (Itallan), Lieut. Webster (Brit ish) Lieut. Guazzetti (Italian), Flight Lieut. Worsley (British), and Capt Ferrarrin, (Italian). All the planes weathered the pre- liminary tests in excellent form, and both teams are expressing utmiost confidence, but neither underestimates the hazardous nature of the contest, in which a new world speed record is expected. Along Lido Beach. The distance of the race is 33 kilometers (about 220 miles), and wi comprise seven clrcuits of a course along the front of the Lido bathing beach. The water over which the planes will fly will be absolutely cleared of all craft, but further out, on the Adriatic, Italy’s war fleet lies, while in the lagoon back of Lido a| huge flotilla of gondolas and launches has been provided for. | In order to keep the crowd in touch | with the scoring at all stages of the race the authorities have erected a huge bulletin board with a loud speaker for announcements. Crown Prince Humbert and ma members of the Italian and English aristocracy, as well as thousands of Americans, are here to witness the race. . President to Address Red Cross. President Coolidge will address the | nnual meeting of the American R Cross here on the night of October in accordance with his custom, While the State Department was still without any word from Paris yes terday as to when the next rench communication in the tariff and com- merclal treaty discussion is to be ex pected, it was learned that the Span- ish government last July, in accept- ing proposals for negotiation of most-favored-nation commercial tres had indicated that a special commi sion to conduct the negotiations would be sent to Washington at a date yet to be fixed In the absence from Wa the Spanish ambassador, State De. partment officials do not expect in mediate developments in connection with treaty negotiations with Spain. 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