ain was second with 30 and Denmark third 3,000-meter team race-8:32, Finland (1924). with 20.

The Uruguayan soccer football team defeated the Swiss team in the final match by a score of 3 to 0 at the Colombes stadium June 9. The Uruguayans put the United States soccer team out of the running by the same May 29.

United States marksmen won the Olympic at Chalons team rifle shooting competition June 26-27 with a total score of 676 points at distances of 400, 600 and 800 meters. The Haitian team was second with 646 points and France third with 644. In the running deer event at Versailles the British team was first. The individual event was won by Maj. J. K. Boles, U. S. A.

H. M. Bailey, U. S. M. C., was first in the individual revolver shooting competition. Carl Berg of Sweden was second.

The United States team in clay pigeon trap shooting won first place in the competition at Issy-Les-Moulineaux.

The Olympic polo championship was won by Argentina with four victories and no defeats. The United States was second with three victories and one defeat. The games were played at St. Cloud.

MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES.

The cities and years in which modern Olym- 1911-Mit II.... pic games have been held follow:

were held in 1916 on

60-meter dash-:07, A. C. Kraenzlein, Archie
Hahn. W. Hogenson (1904).
100-meter dash-:10%.

F. S. Lippincott
(1912); H. Abrahams (1924).
200-meter dash-21%, Archie Hahn (1904).
400-meter dash-:47. E. H. Liddell (1924).
James E. Meredith
800-meter run-1:51.9.

1,500-meter run-3:53%. P. Nurmi (1924). 5,000-meter run-14:31%, P. Nurmi (1924). Hannes Kohlemainen

3,000-meter steeplechase-9:33%, Willie Ritola (1924).

662

Total elapsed time..
Mileage

Days actually in air.

The first airplane flight around the world was made by United States army aviators in 1924. The actual start was made at Santa Monica, Cal., March 17 and the official start at Seattle, Wash., April 6. The flight was ended at Seattle Sept. 28. The journey was completed in five months and twenty-two days by two of the original planes and by the Boston II., a spare cruiser sent to Pictou harbor, N. S.. for Lieut. Leigh Wade, whose machine, the Faroe the Boston, was wrecked islands on Aug. 3.

near

flagship the

The personnel at the start of the flight included Maj. Frederick L. Martin, leader of the flight, with his mechanician, Lieut. Alva L. Seattle; Lieut. Harvey, in Lowell H. Smith, pilot, and Lieut Leslie C. Arnold, in the Chicago; Lieut. Erik H. Nelson, pilot, and Lieut. John Harding, Jr., in the New Orleans, and Lieut. Leigh Wade, pilot, and Lieut. H. H. Ogden in the Boston. The machines used were large Douglas biplane cruisers with Liberty motors. Before the journey was ended the flyers had touched twenty-one foreign countries. They had made fifty-seven hops averaging 483 miles each, and had been 351 hours in the air. The machines used a total of 21.060 gallons of gasoline in covering the distance of 27,534 miles.

Two serious accidents occurred on the trip. on their On April 15 when the flyers were way from Seward to Chignik, Alaska, Commander Martin and Lieut. Harvey in the flagship Seattle had to make a forced landing at Cape Igvak and were obliged to install a new motor. On April 25 they landed at Chignik and after a delay caused by stormy weather started again on April 30. Encountering heavy fogs they lost their way, with the result that they crashed into a mountain, narrowly escaping death. Their machine was wrecked beyond repair and they had great difficulty in making their way to the coast. It was not until May 7 that they arrived at a trapper's west of cabin at Port Moller. 100 miles Chignik, and it was not until four days later was made known to the that their safety world. It was impossible for them to continue the flight, as no other plane was available, and they were recalled to the United States, Lieut. Smith assumed command and the cruiser Chicago became the flagship.

occurred on Aug. 3 The second disaster when the Boston was wrecked 115 miles off to on the way the Orkney islands while the Hornafjord. Iceland. Motor trouble was were Lieut. Wade and Lieut. Ogden cause. picked up by a trawler and later transferred to an American warship, which brought them to the United States. There they were supplied with a new cruising plane and made the flight with the other aviators from Pictou Harbor, N. S., to Seattle, Wash.

The route taken by the airmen from start to finish was as follows:

March 17 to April 6-Santa Monica and Sacra-
mento, Cal.: Eugene, Ore.: Seattle, Wash.
April 6 to May 4-Prince Rupert, B. C.: Sitka,
Seward, Chignik, Dutch Harbor, Nazan and
Chicagoff, Alaska.

May 4 to June 2-Paramashiru island, Yeto-
foru island. Minato. Kasumigaura (Tokyo).
Kushimoto and Kagoshima, Japan.
Amoy. Hong
June 2 to July 1-Shanghai.
Kong, China; Haiphong, Touraine and Saigon,

Actual flying time...351 hours 11 minutes
..76.36 miles per hour
Average speed..
April 6-Sept. 18. 1924

Date..

French Indo-China; Bangkok, Siam; Ran
goon, Burma: Akyab. Calcutta, Allahabad,
India.
July 1 to Aug. 2-Umballa and Karachi, In-
dia; Chahbar, Bushire and Bendar Abbas.
Persia; Bagdad, Mesopotamia: Aleppo, Syria:
Constantinople, Turkey: Pancsova and Buda-
Strass-
Hungary; Vienna, Austria;
pest,
burg and Paris, France: London and Brough,
England; Kirkwall, Scotland.
Aug. 1 to Sept. 3-Hornafjord and Reykjavik,
Iceland: Fredriksdal and Ivigtut, Greenland:
Labrador:
Indian Harbor (Ice Tickle),
Hawkes bay, Newfoundland: Pictou. Nova
Scotia.

Sept. 3 to Sept. 28-Mere Point, Me.; Boston,
Mass.: Mineola, N. Y.: Washington, D. C.;
Dayton, O.; Chicago, Ill.: Omaha, Neb.; St.
Joseph, Mo.: Muskogee, Okla.; Dallas, Tex.:
San Diego,
El Paso. Tex.: Tucson, Ariz.:
Cal.; Santa Monica, Cal.: San Francisco, Cal.;
Eugene, Ore.: Seattle, Wash.

At all points in the United States where the
aviators made halts on their journey to Seattle
the men were greeted by thousands of spec-
tators and were paid the highest honors that
President and Mrs. Coolidge waited for hours
could be bestowed upon them. In Washington
To commemorate the first round-the-world
in the rain to welcome them personally.
air service a monument has been erected on
flight by officers of the United States army
Sand Point aviation field, Seattle, where the
flight officially began and ended.

The monument is twenty feet high. A granite shaft, which is two feet nine inches at the It is bottom and one foot nine inches at the top. rests on a granite base six feet square. surmounted by a bronze globe upon which are a pair of wings which represent the last poise of the wings of a bird just before it folds them to its body.

On the face of the shaft is a bronze tablet surwith four airplanes modeled in relief mounting this inscription:

"Dedicated to U. S. Army Air Service Officers in First Round-the-World Flight. Began April 6, 1924, Ended September 28, 1924, at Sand Point Airdrome on This Field, 1st Lt. Lowell H. Smith, Pilot, Commander. 1st Lt. Leslie P. Arnold, Flying Air Cruiser Chicago. 1st Lt. Erik H. Nelson, Pilot, 2d Lt. John Harding, Jr. O. R. C., Flying New Orleans. 1st Lt. Leigh Wade. Pilot. 2d Lt. Henry H. Ogden. O. R. C., Flying Boston. Wrecked off Iceland, August 3, 1924. Resumed Flight in Boston II from Nova Scotia. Maj. Frederick L. Martin, Pilot. Staff Sergt. Alva L. Harvey, Flying Flagship Seattle, Wrecked on Alaska Coast April 30, 1924."

NARROW ESCAPE OF LIEUT. LOCATELLI.

Lieut. Antonio Locatelli, an Italian aviator, with three companions had a narrow escape from death while attempting to accompany the American army round-the-world flyers on their flight from Reykjavik, Iceland, to Frederiksdal, Greenland, on Aug. 21, 1924. Owing to motor trouble their plane was forced to the surface of the sea, which was rough and cold. After three days and nights of suffering and anxiety the men were picked up by the United States cruiser Richmond, which had been searching for them. A signalman on the bridge of the Richmond late at night saw

green flares in the distance and turning in that direction the warship soon reached the Italian plane, which was so badly damaged that it was destroyed by request of Lieut. Locatelli.

ATTEMPT OF A. S. MAC LAREN TO FLY

AROUND WORLD.

Pacific coast to Tacoma, Wash., and returned
by the same route to Lakehurst, arriving
there on Oct. 25. The distance covered was
9,000 miles. For 258 hours and 38 minutes
the motors had been running, for 187 hours
and 22 minutes the ship had been moored to
a mast, for 120 hours it was undergoing re-
pairs. The distance was by far the greatest
ever traveled on a single cruise, far outreach-
ing the double voyage of the British R-34 to
America and back again. The detailed figures
in hours and minutes, showing the net time
in flight between the cities, the actual time
until making fast at the next mast, and the
time at the mast at each city, after leaving
Lakehurst Oct. 7 at 10 a. m., was as fol-
lows:
In flight. In air. Moored.
36:45

Squadron Commander A. Stuart MacLaren. Flying Officer Plenderleith and Sergt. Andrews, British aviators, started from Calshot, Eng land, March 25, 1924, on an attempt to fly around the world. They used a Vickers Vimy seaplane. Their route was by way of Havre, Lyons, France: Civita Vecchia and Brindisi, Italy: Corfu, where they were delayed until a new engine could be secured: Athens, Greece: Cairo, Egypt; Ziza, Palestine; Bagdad, Irak (Mesopotamia); Bushire and Bendar To Fort Worth..... Abbas, Persia: Karachi, Parlu, where an acci- To San Diego.. dent caused a long delay; Nasirabad, Alla-To Camp Lewis.. habad. Calcutta, India; Akyab, Burma, where To San Diego. the airplane was badly damaged and the To Fort Worth.. flight had to be suspended until the United To Lakehurst.. States navy sent a new machine; Rangoon, Burma: Bangkok, Siam, Haiphong, French Indo-China; Hongkong; Shanghai, China; Kagoshima, Kushimoto, Tokyo, Minato, Kuriles islands. Japan; Petropavlosk. Kamchatka: Nikolski, Komandorski islands. Siberia.

The flight came to an end when the plane made a forced landing on rough water near Nikolski and was so seriously damaged as to be unserviceable.

FROM PARIS TO TOKYO.

Lieut. Pelletier Doisy and a mechanic, Bernard Vesin, left Villacoublay airdrome, near Paris, France, on April 25 for Tokyo, Japan, on a Breguet sesquiplane, 370-horsepower Lorraine-Dietrich engine. He flew to Bukharest (1.240 miles) without a stop, and to Aleppo (930 miles), also without a stop, on the next day. The places at which Lieut. Doisy stopped were Bukharest, Aleppo, Bagdad, Bushire, Bender Abbas, Karachi, Agra, Calcutta, Rangoon, Bangkok, Saigon, Hanoi, Canton, Shanghai, Peking, Mukden, Pingyang. Taiku. Osaka and Tokorozawa near Tokyo. The distance traversed was 11.500 miles. As a reward for his exploit Lieut. Doisy was promoted to a captaincy in the French army.

LONG FLIGHT BY MAJ. PEDRO ZANNI, Maj. Pedro Zanni, an Argentine aviator, left Amsterdam, Holland, late in July, 1924, with the intention of flying around the world. He followed the usual route across southern Europe, India, Burma, Siam, French IndoChina, China and Japan. He arrived at Tokyo Oct. 11. After considering the perils of crossing the northern waters of the Pacific so late in the year he finally decided on Nov. 3 to abandon the attempt. Maj. Zanni used a Fokker-Napier plane on his flight.

FLIGHT FROM LISBON TO MACAO. The Portuguese aviators Brito Paes and Sarmento Beiros left Lisbon early in April. 1924, on a flight to Macao, near Canton, China, which they reached June 16. Their course was by way of Tripoli, Cairo, Damas cus. Bushire, Karachi, Papir, Allahabad, Rangoon, Bangkok and Hanoi. They were delayed considerably by accidents, the most serious of which occurred near Papir, in the state of Jodhpur, when their plane crashed in a clonic storm. When a new plane had been sent to them from Lisbon they continued their flight.

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RECORD-BREAKING TRIP OF THE SHEN-
ANDOAH.

The American-built dirigible, the Shenandoah, left Lakehurst, N. J.. Oct. 7, 1924. crossed the continent to San Diego, Cal., followed the

Totals ....

38:08

10:41

235:01 258:38 187:22

The outbound Voyage was made in 123 hours and 14 minutes, while the return voyage required only 111 hours and 47 minutes. Helium gas was used for the entire trip. The log of the voyage follows:

Oct. 7-Left Lakehurst, N. J.

Oct. 8-Arrived at Fort Worth, Tex. Took on helium gas.

Oct. 10-Left Fort Worth.

Oct. 11-Arrived at San Diego after almost hitting a mountain.

Oct. 16-Left San Diego.

Oct. 18-Reached Tacoma, Wash.
Oct. 19-Left Tacoma.

Oct. 21-Returned to San Diego.
Oct. 23-Started back across continent.
Oct. 24-Arrived at Fort Worth; did not stay
long.
Oct. 25-Arrived at Lakehurst.

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE SHENANDOAH.

The navy dirigible Shenandoah, with a full crew of twenty-two officers and men on board, broke loose from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J., at 7:30 o'clock on the evening of Jan. 16. 1924. A heavy gale was blowing at the time from the Atlantic with rain falling in blinding sheets. The huge craft was blown sixty miles inland within an hour and was then brought under control. The pilot, Capt. Anton Heinen, steered the Shenandoah over Westfield, Newark, Jersey City. Bayonne and Staten island for three hours at a height of about 400 feet. Heading for Lakehurst the airship passed over Rahway. South Amboy, Keyport. Freehold, in the meantime keeping in wireless touch with the home station, which was reached toward morning. The gale had abated and the Shenandoah was housed without much difficulty. The only damage done was the tearing away of the "cap" on the front end.

The Shenandoah, until Oct. 9. 1923, was known as the ZR-1. It was built in the aircraft factory of the Philadelphia navy yard.

ZEPPELIN ZR-3 CROSSES ATLANTIC. The dirigible balloon ZR-3. built at the Zeppelin works at Friedrichshafen, Germany. for the United States government, left the German city Oct. 12, 1924, crossed the Atlantic ocean and arrived at Lakehurst, N. J., Oct. 15. on the whole the voyage was uneventful. It encountered some wind and fog, but The route was over France, Spain and the Azores to Nova Scotia and thence over Boston and New York city to Lakehurst. The distance of 5.060 miles was covered in eighty-one

664

hours. The commander during the flight was
Dr. Hugo Eckener, president of the Zeppelin
was German and the
company. The crew
Three United States
German flag was flown.
army officers and one navy officer were aboard.
Soon after its arrival the name of the diri-
gible was changed from ZR-3 to Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles is 656 feet long, its height
is 101 feet and its diameter ninety feet. The
hull is constructed of duraluminum and some
steel. The dirigible is driven from five power
cars, each of which is fitted with a twelve-
It
cylinder, 400-horse-power Maybach engine.
It
carries 2,472,000 cubic feet of hydrogen gas
and its lifting power is 179.240 pounds.
has accommodations for twenty passengers in
addition to the crew.

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LOSS OF THE DIXMUDE. The French dirigible Dixmude, with fifty officers and men aboard. left Cuers-Pierrefeu, 18, 1923, for a near Toulon, France, Dec. three-day flight to Insalah in southern AlThis part of the trip was successfully geria. accomplished, but when it attempted to return addition and in its motors went wrong violent storm was in progress on the Mediterranean. The huge airship became helpless and drifted about at the mercy of the elements. It was last heard from directly on Friday, Dec. 21. at 8 p. m., when it was about ninety miles south of Biskra, Algeria, and was heading north toward the Mediterranean. After that nothing definite could be learned fishermen in Sicilian until Dec. 28, when waters found the corpse of Lieut. du Plessis de Granada, the commanding officer of the airship. A few days later bits of charred wreckage were swept in by the sea at Sciacca and along the coast near Palermo. They were examined by experts and it was found that an exthey were from the Dixmude, which had evidently been destroyed by fire after was reached by the plosion. The conclusion French naval authorities that the disaster occurred on the night of Dec. 21-22.

The Dixmude was a Zeppelin rigid airship built in Germany at the time of the war and was turned over to France. It was the largest craft of its kind in the world then existing and held the record for distance and endurance, having made a flight of 4,500 miles in 118 hours and 41 minutes in September, 1922. It was reported that before setting out on its last flight the commander had tested against making the trip on account of the weakened condition of the airship. FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO IN ONE DAY.

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Lieut. Russell Maughan, United States army
field, Mineola, L. I..
aviator, left Mitchel
at 3 a. m. June 23, 1924, and at 9:48 p. m.
landed on Crissy field at San Francisco, Cal.
He had crossed the continent in 21 hours
and 48 minutes, allowing for three hours' dif-
ference in time; the actual time in the air
He flew alone
was 18 hours and 20 minutes.
the entire distance, no assistant or mechanician
being carried. The following table shows the
distance of each stage of the flight, the flying
time and the average speed per hour:

New York to Dayton...
Dayton to St. Joseph.

Miles. Time. Speed.
575 4:05 140.40
565 3:37 141.00

St. Joseph to North Platte. 325 1:57 166.80
North Platte to Cheyenne..225 1:18
Cheyenne to Salduro..
Salduro to San Francisco...575 3:57

172.80

.585 3:26

170.40

145.20

Total

2,850 18:20 156.20

LAWRENCE B. SPERRY DROWNED.
aviator,
an American
Lawrence B. Sperry.
was drowned in the English channel Dec. 13,
1923, while attempting to fly to Amsterdam,
Holland, in a small one-seater airplane. He left

the Croydon airdrome in the morning and the
coast guards saw him flying seaward at noon
at a height of 500 feet. A workman saw the
machine crumple and fall at 12:50 p. m.
about three miles from Rye. The wrecked ma-
chine was recovered, but the body of Sperry
was not found until Jan. 11, 1924, when it
was discovered lying on the shore near Rye.
One of his
His airplane was a "baby" affair of his own
invention. It had a wing spread of only twen-
ty feet and weighed 500 pounds.
exploits was to land on the capitol steps in
Washington, D. C., in March 1922. His home
was in Brooklyn, N. Y.

AIRPLANE RACING.
Pulitzer Trophy.

Lieut. Harry H. Mills, A. S., of Fairfield,
flying a Verville Sperry racer, won the Pulit-
over a
zer trophy for high speed planes on Oct. 4 at
age speed of 216.4 miles per hour
Wilbur Wright field. Dayton, O., with an aver-
course of 124.7 miles. In the 1923 race Lieut.
Alford J. Williams. U. S. N., set a speed rec-
ord of 243.67 miles per hour. Winners of the
Pulitzer trophy:

1920-Capt. C. C. Moseley.
1921-Bert Acosta.

1923-Lieut. A. J. Williams.
1922-Lieut. R. L. Maughan.
1924-Lieut. Harry H. Mills.

James Gordon Bennett Cup.
Record of winners:
1909-Glenn H. Curtiss, America.
1910-Claude Grahame-White, England.
1911-Charles T. Weymann, America.
1912-Jules Vedrines, France.
1913-Maurice Prevost, France.
1914-1919-No racing.
1920-Sadi Lecointe, France.

AIRPLANE RECORDS.
Highest Altitudes Reached.
The record for height attained by airplane is
held by Sadi Lecointe, who at Villacoublay.
France, Sept. 8, 1923, rose to a height of
Following is a list of notable altitude flights
10.722 meters, or 35.178.88 feet.
since 1910:

Georges Legagneux, Pau, France, Dec. 9. 1910, 10.499 feet.

Arch Hoxsey, Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 26, Capt. Felix, Etampes, France, Aug. 5, 1911, 1910. 11.474 feet (unofficial). 11.330 feet.

Lincoln Beachey, Chicago, Ill., Aug. 20, 1911. 11,642 feet.

Roland G. Garros, Parame, France, Nov. 7. 1911, 13.943 feet.

Lieut. Blaschke, Vienna, June 29, 1912, 14,300 feet. Roland G. Garros. Houlgate, Sept. 6, 1912. 16.076 feet.

Georges Legagneux, Villacoublay, Sept. 17. 1912, 17,881 feet.

Edmond Perreyon, Buc aerodrome, France.
St. Raphael, France.
March 11, 1913, 19.650 feet.
Georges Legagneux,
Germany.
Dec. 27, 1913, 19.300 feet.

Herr Linnekogel. Johannisthal,
March 31, 1914, 20.564 feet.
Heinrich Oelreich. Leipzig, Germany, July
14, 1914, 24.606 feet.

De Lloyd Thompson, Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 6. 1914, 15.600 feet.

Capt. H. LeR. Muller, San Diego, Cal., Oct. 8. 1914, 17.441 feet.

H. G. Hawker, Hendon, England, June 5. 1915, 20.000 feet.

H. G. Hawker. Brooklands, England, April 26, 1916. 24.408 feet.

Capt. W. A. Robertson, Jr.. San Diego, Cal., May 12, 1917, 16.400 feet.

Miss Ruth Law, Peoria, Ill., Sept. 27, 1917. 14.701 feet (record for women).

Caleb Bragg, Port Washington, N. Y., Sept.