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SPORT WILL FORCE the NATIONS EXCLUDE the AIRSHIP from WAR Why a NEW GUN Must Be INVENTED to PROTECT SHIPS and CITIES. Why the AIRSHIP Is the GREATEST FOE of the SUBMARINE. Why the COMING AERIAL RACES Are FORCING All GOVERNMENTS to ACT. horse-power motor: L. Weill, New York, a flying contrivance "without motors;" D. C. Bassett, of South Dakota, who "expects to enter an airship to compete with anything." Here are the dispositions of time for the suggested contests: Special race, Aero Club championship, May 4; dirigible balloons, June 1; competition of ordinary balloons for distance, June 15; for duration, Aug. 3; for objective point, Sept. 7; for altitude, Nov. 16; in pursuit of pilot balloon, Aug. 17. Flying devices heavier than air, with motor and J. Norton Griffiths - Challenge Cup to winner of Daily Mail race. Brookland Automobile Racing Cup - $12,500 to the aeronaut who is successful in flying around the Waybridge track, without touching ground from start to finish, at a height of thirty to fifty feet from the ground. Ruinart Pere & Fils - $2,500 to the first aeroplane to fly from French shore to English shore or vice versa; from Cape