PLAYED HOCKEY

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1930, Page 13

PLAYED HOCKEY

FAMOUS GIRL FLYER. Sydney, July 10.' Miss Winifred Brown, the girl flyer 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, when it had easy victories over in 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 stunts ehe performed in the air during the spare moments of the tour.Even in those days Miss Brown was mad on flying, according to those who Were in close contact with her. For that reason hockey officials saw less of her than of any other member of tho team. She spent every spare moment she had at the aerodromes of the vari- • ous capitals, tinkering with machines and flying whenever she was given tho opportunity. While she was ift! Adelaide she amazed experienced flyers . with her coolness at the controls, and the daring evolutions through which she put her ’plane. Adelaide had never seen a girl do such stunts, and for. that matter very few . men perform such aerial aerobatics. “She’s such a jolly fine sort of a girl,” seems to be the general opinion of' people in Australia. On the hockey field 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 tour by her mother and her fiance, but. it is reported here that her engagement has since been broken. Hei father is a wealthy Manchester, manufacturer, who encouraged her sport and her sporting activities.