ROUND-BRITAIN RACE.
First Stage In King's Cup Air Contest. WOMAN'S PLUCKY FIGHT. i British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, July 20. .■petition in the 1000 miles handicap air race round Britain for the King's C ii[> completed the first stage to-day at the Renfrew aerodrome, Scotland, a distance of 540 miles from the starting point. Miss Winnifred Spooner, the onlv woman competitor, who fiys a Moth machine, made a great bid "for victory. Starting third from Hendon, slie was second to arrive at Norwich, and was first at Birmingham. She was still leading at Leeds, but afterwards lost her advantage. The first to arrive at Renfrew was Flying-Officer Atcherley, in a GlosterGrebe, his time being o'hours 19 minutes 27 seconds. Miss Spooner was tenth, in 5 hours 47 minutes ">4 seconds.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 171, 21 July 1928, Page 9
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