1,000-Mile Flight Wins.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 1, 1913:
Guillaux Successful with His Journey from Biarritz to Holland.
    PARIS, April 30.— Ernest F. Guillaux, a French airman, with his aeroplane flight on Sunday, when he traveled from Biarritz to Kollum, Holland, a distance of nearly a thousand miles, won a prize of $10,000 and the Pommery or Single Day Distance Cup. The contest was decided at sundown tonight.
    Competition for the Pommery Cup, valued at $1,500, is open every six months, and the prize is awarded to the aviator making the longest flight in a straight line between sunrise and sunset of the same day.
    Guillaux started from Biarritz, in the extreme southwest of France, at 4:42 o'clock Sunday morning, and after making two stops — at Bordeaux and Villacoublay — to replenish his fuel, finally reached Kollum, Holland.
    Pierre Daucourt, also a Frenchman, won the cup on the last previous occasion, with a flight on Oct. 6, 1912, from Valenciennes to Biarritz, a distance of 530 miles.

    ROUEN, April 30.— Jules Vedrines, the French aviator, started at 4:37 o'clock this morning from Lyons on his monoplane on a flight, the objective of which was Edinburgh, a distance of approximately 930 miles in an airline to the North. He reached Villacoublay at 8:10 A.M., and spent fifteen minutes there refilling his tanks.
    After an eighty-mile flight from Villacoublay Vedrines met with a windstorm when over this city, and was forced to abandon his journey.

    COMPIEGNE, April 30.— Eugene Gilbert, a French aviator, attempted to fly to-day from Amberleu, in the Department of Ain, across France and over the English and St. George's Channels to Ireland.
    After flying a distance of 260 miles the airman was obliged to descend at Complegne, where he ended his flight.