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Show ENGLISH AVIATOR WINS. Grslianie-Whlte Takes Both Cup and Money In Aviation Contest. New York. Claude E. Grahame-White, Grahame-White, flying for tho Royal Aoro club of the United Kingdom, lifted the Gordon Gor-don Bennett International speed trophy from tho custody of Amorlcn, on Saturday, In the fastest time ever covered for tho full dlstanco of 100 kilometers (02.14 miles), around a five-kilometer course. His average speed was a fraction better than 01 miles an hour and his fastest lap was 2 minutes 55.77 seconds, but tho captain cap-tain of the French team, Alfred ha Diane, flying In a similar machine, a 100-horsepower Hloriot monoplane, was making each lap on an average of twenty seconds faster than Gra-hame-Whlte, and would havo won the cup if ho had not met with a disastrous disas-trous accident In his last lap, when he had tho race seemingly well In hand. |