VICTORY FOR M. PAULHAN

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13720, 29 April 1910, Page 7

VICTORY FOR M. PAULHAN

MR WHITE'S PLUCKY ATTEMPT

THE ENGLISHMAN CAUGHT

NAPPING.

(Rcreired April 29th, 12.15 a.m.)

LONDON, April 28

Mr White was in difficulties when he descended at Polesworth.

M. Paulhan passed Stafford at 4.40, and reached Manchester at 5.30.

Mr White had abandoned tho idea of maJnng the flight, owing to the high, gusty wind, when he learned by telephone that M. Paulhan had etolen a march on him and had. started. . Mr White hastily, and without food, followed at the- earliest possible moment. His daring in entering the competition tlnis hundioapped was loudly cheered. Meanwhile M. Paulhan had established a long lead, and Mr White was unable to make as great progress before darkness set in.

The Paris correspondent of London ''Truth," writing about the aviation meeting at Pau, baa this interesting note on Mr Whit©: —I had come to 6ce the flight of Mr Graham White, whom I had met at Grassiot's Hotel, and thought too tall for aviation,! at which men whose brains are near their extremities best succeed, though Bleriot is an exception. But he had gone np and come down in a way ho had not c-xpected . against 1 arrived. The fall had been into a shrub of blackthorn and whins, and had done him but injury beyond pricks and scratches. He is a remarkably fine type of Briton, j-cntlemanly, obliging, and showed himself a bit of a Spartan under the punishment , he had met with. Hβ had, before coming to Patt, tried his Ble"riot machine, which he bought for 'lO,OOOfr. aD Ilsy-lee-Moulineanx,- and then come from daily training at Cubios. Hβ mentioned that he intended trying for the London to Manchester prize."