London, January 14.
M. Henry Farman has won the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize of £2,000, by covering with an ucroplane a circular kilometre in 88 seconds, The japers describe M. Farman as an epoch-maker comparable with Stephenson.—Lieclusive Service.
Henry Farman, though now, we believe, @ naturalized Frenchman is an Englishman by birth, one of the two sons of the late correspondent in Paris of "The Standard." He is about thirty-four years of age and in company with his brother Maurice made his debar in the sporting world in the early nineties as a noted cyclist. When motor cars became a practical possibility the two Farmans turned to the new engine with ay and competed with success in all the great motor-car races of the first years (9
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