The Archive · 1938

In King's Cup Race

Twenty Laps of a 50—Mile Triangular Circuit London, July 2, Nineteen aeroplanes started from Haifield, Hertfordshire, in the King's Cup air race today over 1,000 miles in 20 laps of a 50-mile triangular circuit, The best handicapped machines received a start of over three hours from the Mew Gull piloted by Captain E. W. Percival, who came in third in the King's Cup last race year, (Captain Percival's plane, in which there were two women as passengers, flew at the rate of 222 m.p. in the first lap.—Reuter. in both the men's doubles and mixed championship. rounds the prospects thay he would become the first player in' history to score a second successive triple victory became bright ter, pudke In 3 Finals Budge last year created a record by winning all three Wimbledon championship which could be won by a single player, One of the usual features of the Wimbledon series this year is that Americans have reached every tual of the five championships, Budge and Alice; Marble ' entered the mixed doubles final by beating Ronald Shayes and Joan Saunders of Britain, 6-4, 6-2, and will oppose the German-American combination of Sarah Palfrey Fabyan and Henner Henkel, Mrs. Fabyan and Henkel reached the final by trimming H. D. Russell and Freda James of Britain, 63, 1-6, 6-3. 4 The Californian and Gene Mako will battle in the men's doubles final agains, Henkel and George von Metaxa, who beat the Yugoslavian team of Frank Kukuljevic and Joseph Pallada, 7-5, 6.2, 6-4.

Another American—team, Mrs. Fabyan and Miss lo, will oppose Mme. Simone" Mathieu of France and Miss Ádelipe Yorke of final, Britain in the women's doubles

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