Lehigh Alumni Bulletin 1919-1920 (volume 7, no4) . fully held under the auspices of theWar Department, at Mineola, L. L, on May7. This event, which will be historic inthe annals of college sport, brought to-gether in competition Yale, Princeton, with Richards as Mechanic. Lehigh was unfortunate in furnishingthe only accident, which occurred in thealert contest. In this the pilots re-moved their flying clothes and lay dow^non Army cots. At a pistol shot they divedinto their clothes and raced to their spun the props and the pilotsgot their ships into the air as fast as pos-sible
Lehigh Alumni Bulletin 1919-1920 (volume 7, no4) . fully held under the auspices of theWar Department, at Mineola, L. L, on May7. This event, which will be historic inthe annals of college sport, brought to-gether in competition Yale, Princeton, with Richards as Mechanic. Lehigh was unfortunate in furnishingthe only accident, which occurred in thealert contest. In this the pilots re-moved their flying clothes and lay dow^non Army cots. At a pistol shot they divedinto their clothes and raced to their spun the props and the pilotsgot their ships into the air as fast as pos-sible. W. G. Nowell, 23, was Lehighscontestant and his machine developedmotor trouble. The mechanic finally gotthe motor running and the plane roseabout fifty feet. Then, as Nowell startedto turn down wind, the missing motorthrew the plane into a side slip, and thenose dropped downward and the machinecrashed. The plane was completely des-troyed and the motor hurled bodily forfifty feet, but the mechanic was only badlyshaken. Nowells injuries were more. Lieut, s. :5. Richards, second Place in Intercollegiate Cross-Country Aero Race Cornell, Haiward, Pennsylvania, Columbia, serious but he was out of the hospital andWilliams, Pittsburgh. Wesleyan and Le- at the banquet the next In all these colleges are a number Tlie final scoring was as follows: of under-graduates who are Reserve Mill- ^ ^}^ tary Aviators, and many of them fiew on Williams 6 the battle lines in France. The various Columbia 5 colleges started Aero Clubs and interested Princeton o the War Department in holding a meet to Lehigh 3 test the abilities of Reserve Aviators after Pittsburgh 3 a years ahsence or more from the flying Wesleyan 3 field. The meet was an unqualified sue- Pennsjlvania ^ cess, demonstrating that these young men Hai-vard 0 had lost neither their skill nor their nerve. Cornell 0 There were four events: a cross country Lehighs pilots were: 2nd Lieut. S. , alert contest, landing competit
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