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Americantoo i heMOISANT HERO GF THE MEETii a nili heft J‘ clt;PKPlBtanboyWldlewTook First Prizs In Plying About the Statue of Liberty, Second Prize In the Gordon Bennett Cup Race and W*» the Hero of the Recent Record*s foPlight From Paris to London.One of tlir* most remarkable flightsof the Belmont park aviation meet was that around the statue of Liberty. While tills covered a dis-conca:) s I *wa v?Vflgnr the r tlou ;tanee of but thirty six miles, most of the way lav over the ••iiy of Brooklyn and New York ba\ and was tliereforofraught with constant danger.John 15. Moisant of Chicago, tlie American who won tills remarkable race, is the man who flow from Paris to London several wholes ago. On that trip he carried n passenger. He made a clean journey across tin* channel, butf %■v#A1.nri.niJOHN H. MOISSAXT.was delayed several times by accidentshlng Louand breakdowns before r* don. With true Yankee pluck, he per-«#vered however until I * won Moisant won for America the sentimental honor of finishing second iu the Gordon Bennett cup race and wrested from Claude Graham** White, the cup winner in that event, the $10.-000 prize for the fastest flight from thenowweigl titlethe tl fcuddcThesport8a m the pthe clsaid tM — - « *ing 1*It CToughbroug il to 1there perfoigilisti of bei title, lit ore Ketlt; Pa pke I claion 1003. year t time i round!Angeh chamr title. TheFrancIn thisB a , * I ■ 1 - of wir who p t he* fig their won tlCo I m aBelmont pork race track, New York, around the statue of Liberty and back to the park.Until Moisant undertook the flight,many minutes after the Englishman had completed the task, it seemed that the second highest honor in the meetmust go to England.i trip, which IsINDIPromIMoisant’s time for th estimated at aboutthirty-six miles,was 34 minutes 38 4-5 seconds, forty-two and a half seconds faster than the speed made by Grabarne-Wbite.Grahame-White demanded as soon ns he learned that Moisant had bettered his figures for the trip that he be permitted to fly again, basing Ids demand on the fact that it had been an-omlt;speed for ai 27, 1(1he pi for a an nor to be speed sweep Thethe hivldedning fl the luracedownEat!in an houarWhite( hole C hlcagi Kirillin tturelydeal tviPiI«* r-Photo by Ameri »Association,cjLAUm a: a muiA - w * 11 rI fin Kii t fl dil V» \ * |» ' f 4 1. % i \ 1 * '■t «r , , , m% i 4 », ■» It, iA I Vjnd the KtJu’emightion Sunday 01* Mmediately entered a that lie Lad neveMoteant 1 m -Foolbkick ing pluj luinI toperIn the fJHe v ingback IsSo fawhere i been e\*ruct* ,heard'declaring race that by thecutRtruightcould be run more than oj Mme contestant.I,a I or the avlAtion committee, whichhad been couflderlng tat mutter, annouueed that it hud decided to MimtaiaMolftumt’s proteit oxi the ground that the meet officially clowd on Sundayand that of Monday, therefore,■ y\ OHt,_ iver boa one 0 p t h e team a 1 meet lotBo filllittle dllcould conalst otdy of the deferred flights of suiulu) arid whatever «p«ecittl evFiils the coumtfttoo might hA Li* t 1 iUtgr lt;Vman ea being | aquarterplunge*
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Frederick News
Frederick, Maryland, US
Thu, Nov 03, 1910
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