GORDON BENNETT CUP.
AN ENGLISHMAN'S SUCCESS. WILD WORK IN THE AIR. Prsss Association-By Tclegrapb-Copyrigh*. Received 12.3'J a.m.. Oct. ;il"s't. NEW YORK. Oct. ao. Mr Grahame White, driving a hundred horse power Blcriot-Moren machine at a mile a minute, won the Gordon Bennett Cup lor speed. Ho covered the course of one hundred kilometres in lhr 1 mhi -1 ;i-ssee. There were oieht entrant.--, three American, three English, and two Ereiich. Kadly and Hamilton were liotii diMpuliiied for first place for uot complying with the rules. A DANGKItOCS SPEED. Leblanc dashed into a telegraph pole, smashing the pole and wrecking his machine. He was injured but not seriously. He was going -it 7U miies an hour, a world's record, n hen a gust of wind drove him against the pole. A TERRIBLE FALL. Brook-ns feil -JiV) feet. The crj-;h was heard a mile away. His was crumpled up. The aviator -vas unconscious, but no bones were broken. He was carried to the hospi: ,1. His injuries are not ser.'ous. Latham's aeroplane was blown over the crowd's heads. The people w--e panic stricken at its proximity, IJUtl JU t Latham regained control and gave up the race in the fifteenth round. I
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14336, 31 October 1910, Page 5
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200GORDON BENNETT CUP. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14336, 31 October 1910, Page 5
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