FOOTBALL STARDOM.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 5, 7 January 1929, Page 17

FOOTBALL STARDOM.

SUCCESS OF LOU BROWN.

ENGLAND'S HIGHEST SCORER.

SENSATIONAL CUP TRY

Like Ces. Dacre in the cricket world, another Aticklander, Lou. Brown, playing for Wigan in Rugby League, is upholding the name of New Zealand on the playing fields of England.

Papers just to hand reveal that Brown has reached great heights in his play, and is starred as one of the finest scoring wing three-quarters in the Homeland. In the Cup Final against Widnes he notched the sensational winning try and received a wonderful ovation.

Writing to a friend in Auckland Lou. says it was the hardest and most exciting match in which he had ever engaged, being played in a howling gale and before a large crowd of spectators. "Gee," he writes, "it was a narrow squeak. Jim Sullivan (who was married at 8.30 that morning) kissed me and I was shaken, squeezed and bustled almost to death. I was glad when it was over. Charlie Seeling was more than delighted. The Mayor and the Chief of Police congratulated me at the reception at the Town Hall. Sullivan declared that my try was the best ever. It was my 25th, and it made me the leading scorer in all England." "Hooker," the League critic of the "World's Pictorial News," of November 18, mentions that Wigan's retention of Roy Kinnear, the ex-Scottish International, ncnv in his third year in the League code, was well justified, as this centre player had brought out the brilliant qualities of Brown, who is the foremost scorer in the game. "He is the best trained footballer in England," remarked a Wigan director concerning Brown, "and he never gives us the slightest trouble."

Lou. is also credited with being very conscientious about bis play, and one writer says it is remarkable the wav he puts heart and soul into his football and is a credit off the field as well. By the way, Kinnear toured South Africa with the English Rugby Union side in 1924, and is about 25 vears of