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Fewer Phonies. In California, Joe is a member of the State Athletic Commission, president of the Pony Baseball Leagues (for boys from 12 to 15), and the donor of a sports trophy room to U.C.L.A. containing such mementos as Babe Ruth's bat and the trunks Gene Tunney wore the night he won the championship from Jack Dempsey. Joe thinks he is the only man living to have two athletic fields named after him: one in his home town of Hoigate, Ohio, the other at U.C.L.A., which has made him an honorary undergraduate (Joe never got beyond the ninth...
Golfers in Beaumont, Texas were not surprised last week when home-town girl Babe Didrikson Zaharias, 39, won the Babe Zaharias Open, the local tournament named in her honor. The greatest woman athlete of the half century, Babe was an all-America basketball player, star of the 1932 Olympics (javelin, 80-meter hurdles, high jump), winner of all amateur golf titles and queen of the lady professionals. After the Beaumont tournament, Babe entered a hospital for a checkup, and doctors ordered her prepared for surgery. Medical diagnosis: a rectal malignancy. Athletic prognosis: the end of a fabulous career...
...York Yankee centerfielder Mickey Mantio yesterday smashed a mighty 562-foot home run over the center field wall at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Babe Ruth's 600-feet homer in Briggs Stadium in 1926 was the longest homer ever...
...nation's capital was postponed because of rain. President Eisenhower will now throw out the first pitch in Washington Thursday when the Senators face the Yankees. . . All 16 major league clubs are scheduled to see action today, and the weatherman forecasts that all games will be played . . . Babe Zaharias, famous woman athlete, will undergo an operation on Friday which will determine if her sports career is over...
...take a 1 to 0 lead in games in the finals of the Stanley Cup playoffs in the National Hockey League . . . Ernie Lombardi, one-time batting champion of the National League, attempted suicide by slashing his throat and is in critical condition in a West Coast Hospital. . . Woman athlete Babe Zaharias' long and fabulous career may be over as she is suffering from a malady reportedly of malignant nature . . . The Associated Press Poll of the Baseball Writers' Association of America predicted that the World Series will have the Yankees facing the Dodgers again this fall. . . Harvard's subsidiary...