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...Professional Golfer Helen Hicks: the Women's Western Open, only U. S. tournament for which she is eligible; by beating Beatrice Barrett of Minneapolis, in the final, 6 & 5; at Chicago's Beverly Country Club. Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, only other professional entered, was eliminated in the quarterfinals...
National game of the U. S., baseball can be regarded as a delicate barometer of the U. S. state of mind. Before Depression, major interest of baseball addicts was the aggressive, expansive department of batting. Babe Ruth was the game's No. 1 hero. Since Depression, major interest of baseball addicts has been the defensive, conservative department of pitching. Pitchers are currently the game's top heroes. Last week, four able major-league pitchers made news in four utterly different ways...
...purpose in chastising Pitcher Dean was to deflate his ego, he failed sadly. Instead there followed an absurd uproar which filled U. S. sports pages for three days while Pitcher Dean reiterated: "I'm not goin' to sign nothin'!" Baseball's noisiest dispute since Babe Ruth was fined $5,000 for insubordination in 1925, the Dean-Frick fight ended after three days in a ludicrously solemn compromise. Witnessed by two dozen newshawks, President Frick asked Pitcher Dean whether he had made the remarks attributed to him by the Belleville Advocate. As a reward for repudiating them...
Because he might wish to appear in sideshows when his baseball days are over, Joseph ("Babe") Denning, Montreal infielder, continued to practice eating light bulbs...
...Shrewd, grey-haired Robert Ralph Young, who called himself and partners "babes in the woods" when they bought control of Alleghany Corp. from George A. Ball (TIME, May 3), insisted again that he could simplify the Van Sweringen pyramid more painlessly than could Congress. First step, said he, would be elimination of Alleghany Corp., not Chesapeake Corp. as he had announced fortnight before. But Babe Young appeared for the first time genuinely starry-eyed when he confessed that he had never heard of the classic 1,800-page report on railroad holding companies made in 1931 by ICCommissioner Walter Marshall...