WOMAN CRICKET COACH
LONDON, Sept. 16. Ripon Grammar School, in Yorkshire. for the first time has a woman on .its teaching staff, and one of her subjects is cricket. She is Mrs. J. If. Brown, who has joined her husband on. the staff for the duration of the war. By taking the place of a young master called up recently, she has helped to solve the problem that is now. facing hundreds of English schools—a shortage of masters. The problem has become acute since the age at which masters are reserved from military service was raised from 25 to 30. Mrs. Brown is teaching science and mathematics, as well as cricket.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20378, 15 October 1940, Page 3
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