Classic Event Won by American Entrant Detroit, Sept. 19.
Pilots representing Belgium Britain. France, Svain, Germany Switzerland, Italy and the United States to-day cast off from Ford Ai Port in the sixteenth.internat: ona, Gordon-Bennets Ballzcn Race—Reuter, New York, Sept, 11.
Up to the present there has been no news of the balloons which cast off yesterday from Ford Air Port in the sixteenth annual Gordon Bennett Balioon Race.
No official report is being issued! until all the balloons have landed New York, Sept. 13.
The French balloon Lafayette has passed jover Loganville, Georgia, thus covering the furthest distance 80 far recorded in the Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race.
All the other balloons participate ing in the race, except two German ones, have descended—Reuter.
Washington, Sept, 13.
An unofficial tabulation by the ational Aeronautic Association indicates that the Gordon-Bennett balloon race has been won by the American balloon Detroit with an estimated distance of 725 miles.
The Detroit was piloted by William Hill. Tt landed at Baxley, Georgia.—Reuter.
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