SCHNEIDER TROPHY

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 102, 27 October 1925, Page 5

SCHNEIDER TROPHY

BIG SEAPLANE RACE

WON BY U.S. ARMY MACHINE,

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT.)

(kbuter's mEuiusi.)

(Received 27th October, 10 a.m.)

BALTIMORE; 26th October. Lieutenant James Doolittle, driving a United States Army Curtis racer, won the International Jacques Schneider sea2)lano trophy race. Britain's entries for the race were reduced to one when Mr. Bert Hinkler's ,'plane broKe down through his pontoons being badly damaged this morning as he was commencing his third attempt to qualify. Captain Broad's Gloster Napier No. 3, which passed the navigability test on Friday, will be the only British challenger;

Three victories within five years, the years of the war not counting, arc required to give permanent .possession o±' the .Schneider Maritime Ciipj which is an objet d'avt valued at 20,000f. No 'money prize is attached to the cup now, but the- entry fees ( are divided between the first tln'co. in the race, one-half going to th&-winner. Previous winners were: 1913.—-Prance. M. Prevo'st on a De-

pcrdussili-Ghqmo at 40 m.p.h,

1914.—Britain. Mr. C. 11. Piston on

• a Sopwith-Gnoinc at 75 1n41.11. ] I)2o.—ltaly. Lieutenant Bologna on

a Sitvoia at SO m.p.h. 1921.—Italy. Do Buganti oil a Say

oia-Macchi at 118 m.p.h. l'J22. Britain. Captain Biard on a Supcrnianne-Napier at 141 m.p.h. 1923. —United States. Lieutenant Rittenhousc on a Curtiss 465 Curtiss

at 177^r m.p.h. 1924.—United States had a "walkover" owing to tho wrecking ot the British machine during trials at home. America, however, very sportingly declared the race void.

This year's race at Baltimore was over a course of 188.86 nautical miles —laps over 'a triangle of 37 nautical miles. In ail probability, said the London "Daily Telegraph" in anticipation, the winner's speed would average more than 200 m.p.h., weather conditions, of course, affecting the average to some extent. Before the race, competing machines must demonstrate "manoeuvrability on tho water; and must endure a seaworthiness test, remaining afloat unattended for six hours, and then being in a fit condition for flight.