Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), Friday 4 May 1928, page 1


THE SCHNEIDER * CUP1 j

DEATH OP DONOR |

-Paris, May; 3.. j

. The death is announced; of M. Jacques Schneider, the donor'-oí the Schneider Cup/ the trophy for the

world's chief aerial contest.

: [M.r Schneider^ who has been living on the.-Riviera for some years in abject ..poverty, was once a wealthy French sportsman. For. some time prior to the last cup contest he was believed to be dead. The contest for which he; eave the trophy is the great-est intensive air test ever devised; the, steepi banking, of the machines at the turns severely trying. the pilots.]