The Archive · 1927

KING'S CUP AIR RACE

London, July 30.

In the annual air race for the King's Cup to-day there were seventeen starters, including Lady Bailey. The course was 540° miles, from Husknall Aerodrome to Nottingham. The race was won by W. L. a D. H 60. Moth the International Chess Congress, to the past two weeks at Westminster—which" 16 European and South American countries sent powerful

coming first with 40 points, Den-_ teams—has ted in Hungary mark second with 383, Britain third] with 864 and Holland fourth with'

'A feature was a sideline women's tournament for the now women's championship of the world, which was won by a 2-year old Czecho-Slovak resident of England, Miss Vera Menchik. She scored 108

Reuter, points out of a possible 11.—Reuter.

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