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Big Balloon Race.

Contest for World Championship in St. Louis Next October.

The cup for the world's championship for balloon racing, now the property of the Aero Club of America, which also is the youngest of the aero clubs, is to be raced for at St. Louis in October. France, England, Germany, Spain and America will enter three balloons each and Italy one.

The Aero Club of America held its first annual dinner at the Hotel St. Regis last night. "By a coincidence," said President Bishop, "the Aero Club of France, the oldest of the aero clubs, has its dinner at the same time. We sent them a congratulatory cable despatch and received one in return."

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NEW YORK TO BE IN BIG BALLOON RACE

Will Act as One of Representatives of United States at St. Louis.

ST.LOUIS, March 15.-St. Louis, New York and Philadelphia will be the official representatives of the United State in the international balloon race which is to be held in this city in October. 
Each competing country is entitled to three entries. Secretary Kearney, of the St Louis Aero Club, received word from Philadelphia last night that it would be on hand with a big balloon and several aerial enthusiasts. 
Officially the entries are now closed, but other may come in and act as "chaperons"
The names of the three men who will act as pilots have been made known. Allan R. Hawley will have charge of the St. Louis balloon. His competitors will be Lieut. Frank Lahm of the United States Army, and J.C. McCoy, of New York. Mccoy and Lahm will decide between themselves which balloon each will pilot. 
The St. Louis Club has had made an aeronautic man of the city, 2,000 copies of which have been printed and are beinfg sent by Secretary Kearney to all parts of the globe. On its margin is a record of balloon flights which have been made from this and other cities in this country, which includes the longest that is a metter of record up to 1900.
This was the flight of John Wise from this city in 1859, and which ended in Henderson, N.Y.. the distance covered being 1,150 miles. 

FIVE COUNTRIES TO BE REPRESENTED IN BIG BALLOON RACE. 
The entries accepted for the second international aeronautical cup race, to start October 14, at Forest Park, St. Louis, under the directionof the Aero Club of America, were announced last night to be as follows:-
France, three balloons, the pilots of which have not yet been announced; United Kingdom, three balloons, pilots not yet announced; Deutscher Luftschiffer Verbund, Rommern, of 2,200 cubic centimetres capacity; the Todeville, 1,0[?] metres; Dusseldorf, 2,250 cubic met pilots will be Freiherr von Hewald, mann Hildebrandt and Hauptma Averoom, respectively; Real Aero Espana, three balloons of 2,200 cu[?] tres, to be piloted by Senores Alfred delan, Emilia Herrera and Esteban Salamanca.
The Aero Club of America will be sented by Lietenant Francis Purdy U.S.A., in the balloon in which he w[?] trophy last year; J.C. McCoy, in the ican, 2,200 cubic centimetres, and Al Hawley in the St. Louis, also 2,200 metres.  
Too late for acceptance without the [?] cial permission of the Ferderation nautiques Internationales was the lenge of the Societa Aeronautica Ita which wished to enter the Vittoria, cubic centimetres, to be piloted by A Vonwiler, and the Roma, 2,250 centim to be piloted by Major N Moris. The mission of the federation to accept the italian challenge is expected in a few days.  
 BIG BALLOON RACE.
Contest for World Championship in St. Louis Next October.
The cup for the world's championship for balloon racing, now the property of the Aero Club of America, which also is the youngest of the aero clubs, is to be raced for at St. Louis in October. France, England, Germany, Spain, and America will enter three balloons each and Italy one.
The Aero Club of America held its first annual dinner at the Hotel St. Regis last night. "By a coincidence," said President Bishop, "the Aero Club of France, the oldest of the aero clubs, has its dinner at the same time. We sent them a congratulatory cable despatch and received one in return."