Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1912 — AVIATOR GETS FRENCH PRIZE [ARTICLE]

AVIATOR GETS FRENCH PRIZE

Henry Deutsch Purse Given to Andre Beaumont for Aviation Exploits—Many Candidates. The French Academy of Sports, a body which seeks to be in the athletic world what the Academie Francaise is to literature, had the task of awarding the Henry Deutsch annual prize of f 2,000 offered for the feat which aided most in‘the progress of humanity. The academy had a diversifled list of seats from which to choose. Aviation provided ten candidates. Other fields of sport were represented by Bouin, the foot rajeer, winner of the international cross-country race in England; the boxer Carpentier, who beat Young Josephs in England and Harry Lewis in Paris; the swimmer Burgess, who got acrosß the channel; Louis Percy, the world’s champion shot with a regulation army rifle, and Rallier de Baty, for his trip round the world In a small sailing Boat. The last named was a strong favorite, as his 18,000-mile trip in a 45ton ketch, with his brother and four sailors for company, was an extraordinary feat. Eventually, however, the academy awarded the prize to Andre Beaumont, otherwise Naval Lieutenant Conneau, for his aviation exploits.