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[[part of newspaper page]] THE BOSTON GLOBE TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1911 5 [[line]] [[column one]] NASHUA CHEERS THE AVIATORS [[line]] Ovington and Milling Seen by 500,000. [[line]] Both Lost Way In First Leg of Globe Contest. [[line]] Got Away as Early as Rules Permitted. [[line]] NASHUA, N. H. Sept 4—Fully 500,000 people saw Earle L Ovington gracefully glide to a safe landing at the Nashua state fairgrounds in this city, crossing the line at exactly 12 o'clock, official time, today. At 2:06:30 o'clock, more than two hours later, the same crowd witnessed Lieut Milling USA, Drop on the same field with equal success. Both aviators got away in due time. Ovington's departure was a little later, at 1:20 4 o'clock, and Lieut Milling's departure was at 2:30:15 o'clock. Mr. Ovington expressed a determination to start for Worcester as early as the rules allowed and not do anything which might cut down his time record of the flight. During the hour and a third he was in Nashua he cheerfully posed for newspaper and other photographers and talked affably about his flight, but gave much attention to tuning up the monoplane of which he is driver. Just before his departure for Worcester his mechanician arrived by train and was driven to the grounds and assisted Mr. Ovington and getting the car ready for the start from Nashua. "I went out of my course," said the air navigator, "after leaving Lowell. I lost some time that way. The smoke-bombs which you people sent up as a signal I did not see until after I saw the ring of people around the field here. When I first discerned the field surrounded by people that looked like a 10-cent piece on a carpet four or five yards off. I then made directly for it." [[line]] Milling Goes After Rations. Lieut Milling went at once to the nearby hotel after leaping from his Wright-Burgess biplane, declaring that he had good cause to be hungry, having been on the way for nearly three hours. After a hurried meal Lieut Milling returned to the field and expressed his willingness to start for Worcester as soon as released by the directors of the race at Squantum. He briefly told the story of losing his way. He had reached Tewksbury in quick time and there mistook the city of Lowell for Nashua. Bearing to the left to find the fair grounds he was at once off his course. Lieut Milling followed up the Concord river and Stony Brook branch instead of the Merrimac river and main line of the southern division of the Boston and Maine railroad. This course took him to Concord, Mass. where he landed in the street to the great astonishment of the natives to whom the arrival was as unexpected and in a way as exciting as that of Paul Revere in the same town many years ago. [[cut off]] [[/column one]] [[three column headline]] MAP OF COURSE AND PORTRAITS OF THE TWO WINNERS [[/three column headline]] [[image: three column map of race course and a round inset showing a monoplane and a biplane aloft in the clouds accompanied by winged Icarus. The annotated map shows a diamond shaped course surrounding a photo labeled Earle Opington. There is also a torn photo of another man, presumably Milling. The course starts at a point near Boston, goes northwest to Nashua, southwest to Worcester, southeast to Providence, and northeast back to Boston Squantum Field, with towns times, and points of interested noted all along the way]] [[right hand column cut off, see scan 34]]
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