No More Schneider

When Flight Lieut. J. H. Boothman's seaplane flashed around the Calshot course at an average of 340.08 m. p. h. last September, the Schneider Trophy became Great Britain's permanent possession and the biennial Schneider Races were officially ended unless Britain should choose to put the trophy up again.* Already international apathy had all but finished the competition. The U. S. withdrew in 1926. France dropped out for lack of funds last year. Italy's team was so depleted by crashes that it canceled its entry. Even England would have had no entry last year had not Lady Houston put up the money after the Government refused it. Last week no one was greatly surprised when Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary for Air, told the House of Commons that the Schneider races were "completely over. . . . The contest has outlived its usefulness."

* The trophy was posted in 1912 by M. Jacques Schneider, famed French sportsman and maker of firearms. It is a large bronze of a nude winged female swooping down to kiss one of a group of male faces formed in the crest of an ocean wave.

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