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...afforded me small comfort to know that King George V's chaplain, the Very Rev. Dean Albert Victor Baillie of St. George's (Knights of the Garter) Chapel at Windsor Castle, England, was similarly afflicted in Manhattan four years ago, while visiting at the home of Arthur Curtiss James, financier, yachtsman, railroader...
...report for Popolo d'ltalia, Correspondent Freddi gave full credit to the U. S. flyers. He told of the difficulties before the race-how high winds had delayed the start, how Lieutenant W. G. Tomlinson, on a trial flight, wrecked the best U. S. plane, a Curtiss Packard reputed to be capable of going 250 miles an hour. All week the flyers had been tuning up their seaplanes, practising pylon turns against a factory chimney near the Anacostia River...
...point it was clear that the race had been very exciting. The course was 217 miles (350 kilometres). The high wires snored. The crowd vibrated like a church window shaken by an organ pipe. They discovered that Lieutenant C. F. Shilt, U. S. M. C., flying a 615 horsepower Curtiss, was second with an average speed of 231.363 miles an hour. Lieutenant Tomlinson, in an old Curtiss Hawk, was way behind them all. The third American, Lieutenant Cuddihy, came down with engine trouble. So did Captain Ferrarin, famed Rome-to-Tokyo flyer. Lieutenant Adriano Bacula, 218.006 miles an hour...
...East Entry--A. J. Cassatt 21 Middle Entry--R. H. L. Day 14 West Entry--D. H. Bowles 4 HOLLIS South Entry--G. L. Joughlin 6 North Entry--H. W. Foote 12 HOLWORTHY East Entry--R. N. Lord 24 Middle Entry--R. H. Burns 10 West Entry--R. H. Curtiss 5 LIONEL South Entry--J. H. Perkins 4 North Entry--E. H. Bailey 7 MOWER South Entry--C. G. Lundell 6 North Entry--C. P. Clifford 21 MASSACHUSETTS West Entry--H. Bowker 3 East Entry--C. P. Clifford 21 STRAUS 1-8--Winslow Carlton 4 8-17--T. O. Brewster...
...Army beat the Navy in the Liberty Engine Builders' trophy race, Lieut. Orville L. Stephens coming home first in a Curtiss Falcon observation plane after averaging 142.6 m.p.h. for a dozen laps of a 12-mile course. Later the Navy, in the person of Lieut. C. T. Cuddihy, roared back, to win from the Army the Kansas City Rotary Club trophy, over a 120-mi. closed course in a Boeing FB-3, the new type of pursuit plane developed for use as a fighting ship flown from the plane-carriers Lexington and Saratoga (TIME, Aug. 9). The Liberty Bell...