FAMOUS GIRL FLIER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20622, 22 July 1930, Page 9

FAMOUS GIRL FLIER.

WINNER OF KING'S CUP. NERVE AS HOCKEY PLAYER. [rnOM GUI OWN" CORRESPONDENT. ] SYDNEY. July to. Miss Winifred Brown, the girl flier who took England by storm by winning the King's Cup when opposed to the greatest speedsters in the world, is known to hundreds of people in Australia as the same cool young lady who kept goal for the visiting English women's hockey team wheir it had easy victories over Australia nearly three years ago. Besides being known here as a goalkeeper who never got "rattled" and let a hockey ball past her, she is remembered as a daring aviatrix who startled everyone with the wonderful feats she performed in the air during the spare moments of the lour.

Even in those days Miss Brown was very keen on flying. For that reason hockey officials saw less of her than of any other member of the team. She spent every spare moment she had at the aerodromes of the various capitals, tinkering with machines and flying whenever she was given the opportunity. While she was in Adelaide she amazed experienced fliers with her coolness at the controls and the daring evolutions through which she put her aeroplane. Adelaide bad never seen a girl, and for that matter very few men, perform such aerial acrobatics. "She is a jolly fine sort of a girl," seems to be the general Australian opinion of Miss Brown. On the hockey Held she plays a wonderful game. Few players are calmer. She was always quietly effective and had plenty of nerve. It must have been the same nerve as she displayed on the. hockey field that enabled her to beat the speed demons of England in one of the greatest air races in the world. When she was in Australia Miss Brown was a very pretty girl. She is of medium build and was keen on every kind of sport. She was accompanied on her Australian lour by her mother and her fiance, but, it is reported here that her engagement has since, been broken. Her father is a wealthy manufacturer in Manchester, who encouraged his daughter s sport and h»r sporting activities.