Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1909 — WANT THE RULES CHANGED [ARTICLE]

WANT THE RULES CHANGED

French Think the Distance Bhould Be Longer In Airship Contests. Paris, Aug. 31. —Some of the French newspapers, especially interested In aviation, are already agitating for a change of rules for the international cup, which was won by Glenn H. Curtiss. They contend that a twenty kilometre dash does not furnish an adequate test of the merits of the machines. and point out that when the conditions were laid down twenty kilometres seemed a great achievement, but this has already been outgrown. It Is suggested that a change be made to a long distance endurance race.