Wm. Adolph El Paso STUDEBAKER 20 Trophy

Wm. Adolph El Paso “Studebaker 20” trophy/loving cup. The legend reads: “OS APLE Jubilee Association Cup for 10 Mile  Free For All El Paso, Tex. Oct. 23, 1912. Won By Wm. Adolph in Studebaker ’20′”Trophy is 15h x 14 w/l.  Silver Plate over brass . William Adolph was a member of Barney Oldfield’s racing team. He met Victoria Codona of the famed Codona Trapeze Family in 1914 in El Paso and married her. Here is Victoria Codona Adolph’s 1983 obit from the New York Times. Victoria Codona Adolph, a trapeze artist with the Mexican Flying Codona family who later became a featured wire-walker billed as Princess Victoria in a number of American circuses, died Tuesday in Palm Springs, Calif. Mrs. Adolph, who lived in Palm Springs, was 92 years old. It was primarily Mrs. Adolph’s beauty and fame as a slack-wire performer with Mexican circuses that attracted agents of the Barnum & Bailey Circus to Mexico in 1909, where they recruited her and an aerial act put together by her younger brothers, A