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Anything Can Happen; Does at Lincoln Downs Air Enthusiast Loses Way, Lands Plane on Racing Strip By Staff Correspondent , LINCOLN DOWNS. Lincoln, R, I., May 15. — That trite, but true, statement that "anything can happen at Lincoln Downs" came in for more substantiation today. Shortly after 10:30 this morning, the few people around were staggered to look out on the race track and find an airplane landing on the racing strip. The single-motor, Piper Cub-type plane came to a stop right before the winners circle and a squat, wavy-haired chap with glasses nonchalantly got out and walked over to the rail. It developed that he was looking for Norwood Airport and lost his way. Spotting the race track, he merely stopped off to ask for directions. Luckily for him, trainer Frank Shaw, who is a licensed pilot, was around and put him back on the right track. But the fun only began then. The Lincoln strip was belted by rains pretty good last night and this newer version of Wrong-Way Corrigan had quite a time getting his plane off the ground. Three times he made the run up and down the racing course. The plane was not equipped with mud caulks and the pilot couldnt get enough speed over the soggy strip. The first two times he failed. On his third run, he eventually got the plane in the air, then gave everyone heart failure as the tip of his right wing just missed hitting the eighth pole. But he returned to a straight course and eventually took off in the placid, blue yonder. The only disappointed person was a race tracker on the lawn. He thought Dario was going to raffle off the plane, as he did two automobiles after the final race last night. Horsemen who favor a hard track were said to have remarked, "See, we told you the racing strip was too deep!"
