A WOMAN'S YEAR

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1930, Page 13

A WOMAN'S YEAR

NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS

(From "Tho PostV' Representative.) LONDON, 25 th July.

This year will be memorable for the number of successes scored by women in tfie world of sport. On Saturday Miss M. E. Foster won the King's Prize at Bisley; a fortnight before Miss Winifred Brown won the King's Cup air race. News of Miss Amy Johnson's ovations on her way back from Australia was still coming through by cable as these other victories wore proclaimed. .

A list of other notable records is givon by the " Sunday Times":—■

Motoring.—The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce jjrove for a'• longer timo than anyone else when she kept going for twenty-Hour hours at Montlliery, France's Brooklands, in January. Holder of twenty-four world records. Miss Violet Cordery (who, with her sister Evelyn, last year drove a car for 30,000 milos in 30,000 minutes) drove in top gear through tho city for a week in April; •■•....,!...■■..;■ Motor-Boating.—The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce last September beat twentyfour hours' record at Southampton by steering her boat for 691 nautical miles at average speed of 28.79 m.p.h. Miss Carstairs, at present in American waters to challenge for the International Trophy. ' She has already travelled at 90 ni.p.h.

Mountaineering.—Miss Katharine Trevelyan, daughter of tho president of the Board of Education, the first to ascend Mount Edith Cavell, Alberta (11,000 ft) this season. >'

In hockey English girls have dominated^matters for. many years.

Speedway racing was challenged by women, and Miss Fay Taylour has proved the greatest woman rider on the speedways, having gained many successes in Australia during the close season.

Motor-Cycling. —Miss E. Foley, Miss M. Cottle, and Mrs. M'Lean were chosen as one of the British teams for the International Vaso in the international six days' trial against male opposition. They won two years ago, and suffered hard luck last year, when a donkey ran into the machine of Miss Cottle. Three ladies, Miss Foley, Mrs. M'Lean, and Miss Lermitte, will again ride for England .this year at Grenoble. Athletics.—Eeeords, British and world's, >have been beaten by English girte during recent years, and on 21st June Miss L. Howea did the.mile walk in Bmin'l2l-ssee, a new world's record for women. In February Miss L. Styles won women's cross-country championships over testing course at Wolverton in 20min 59 2-ssec for nearly three miles. . ■

Bnt just a few grains of comfort are left to mere man. No woman has yet won the Derby, led England in a Tost match, captained a Cup Final team, or stroked a University to vietorv.