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AmericanEnglishman Di-Ivide Honors at Belmont Park.1 henanther1MOiSANT HERO OF THE MEETI ‘a pHf aiboyWilk?Took First Prizs In Flying About th® Statue of Liberty, Second Prize In the Gordon Bennett Cup Race and Was the Hero of the Recent Record's ftFlight From Paris to LondonDue of llio most remarkable flights of the Belmont park aviation meet was that around the statue of Liberty. While this covered a dis-cone as 1way flgni the |tloutance of but thirty six miles, most ofthe way lay over tin* lt;iiy of Brooklynand New York bay and was thereforefraught with constant danger.John B. Molsant of (’bicago, the American who won this remarkable \ race, is the man who flew from Purlsto London several weeks aim. lt;n thattrip he carried a passenger. He made a clean Journey across the channel, butlt; Tm:HSHIM.DOWweig titlethe budiiT hHpori{ Ssim the ithe c sa ill iug iIt.foug broii;1 it to then I »erf lt;gilistof btitle,I it ovi Ke PapbIiSlOJOHN 13. UOZ6SANT.190S.yeart tine rot? ns Angtchan title. T hlt;FranIn th of w whoCol mINDIwas delayed several times by accidents nnd breakdowns before reaching London. With true Yankee pluck, he per-t) bmvMV* r »»* i . i I lt;. m tm^7 T . Tl.-. , ■ M . ■ 1 S.Molsant won for America the sentimental honor of finishing second in the Gordon Bennett cup race and J the f wrested from Claude Grahame-Whlte, their the cup winner in that event, the $10,- j won 000 prize for the fastest flight from the Beimont park race track, New York, around tho statue of Liberty and back to the park.Until Molsant undertook the flight, many minutes after the Englishman had completed the tusk, it seemed that the second highest honor in the meet must go to England.Moisant’s time for the trip, which Is estimated at about thirty-six miles, was 31 minutes 38 4-5 seconds, forty-two and a half seconds faster than the speed made by Grahame-Whlte.Grahame-Whlte demanded as soon ! to 1)0 as he learned that Molsant had bettered his figures for the trip that he be swee permitted to fly again, basing Ids de- bhi rnnnd on the fact that It had been an-ProrrOffis peelt; for alihe pi for aan noi27.speedft*trthe hskied ninthe 1;racedowntenthEntlng a1., ^ ■an heWhiiCbcCbleaV. willI 'dealFoklckitpluyhitig.Photo by A merit.i iAssociation*Cl* Ai IIIHITS.Bop In the lleviuj backnounced on fly around tin on Sunday oi mediately out /that he had neve could be*.«me contestant Later had blt;tillI 1,1 i V1 , V «' f.• i # *’• «* 14lit A • V. ■ *Hgfcir MeA ■* ’ AHill if \\*\ 10Lereda prohearlffHXtV A-* \ •leverof ait? ortj thai1 Cl 1 i 4 •1 4.114.1empts toSo fjdeclaringby thehlt; ttuition iroujumtttfldergf toe miIt hud vtedded tteat onthe gro, whichsustain nd thatwhere been e slstent struigb Yoslbelieve!has oucup thetea ms meet lathe meet officially closed on Sunday aud that flights of Monday, therefore,could consist only of Uje deferredflights of Sunday nnd whatever spe- j oul events the committee might beAblet lt;ur*itlLl4.fltiWSBhaHlSo flittle dimuti «‘n being pquarterplunges
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Frederick News
Frederick, Maryland, US
Thu, Nov 03, 1910
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