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...Mission. At Laie they attended a luan, at which President Grant alone used a fork, the others pitching into the food with fingers. At Hilo President Grant planted a banyan tree on a drive where banyans have been planted by Franklin Roosevelt, Vicki Baum, Cecil B. De Mille, Babe Ruth. Sun Fo. In Honolulu they attended a Samoan feast, a Chinese dinner. Then they set up the stake, which embraces 5,000 Mormons on the island of Oahu. Stake president: Ralph E. Woolley, Honolulu contractor. President Grant dedicated the site for a $200,000 stake tabernacle, departed in another burst...
...When Babe Ruth became angry because his employer, Judge Emil Fuchs, had refused him permission to visit New York to welcome the Normandie, and resigned from the Boston Braves last month, baseball addicts wondered what he would do next. Last week, an editorial in the American Magazine contained an unhappy suggestion. It was named "FAME,'' signed, "Babe Ruth, Guest Editorial Writer.'' Excerpts...
Helen Wills went East for the first time in 1921, a shy sturdy-legged girl with pigtails, won the National Girls' Championship at Forest Hills. Coolidge had just become President, Jack Dempsey was Heavyweight Champion and Babe Ruth was playing his fourth season with the New York Yankees the year she won the U. S. Women's Championship for the first time, in 1923, against nutbrown, iron-muscled Molla Biurstedt Mallory. By 1927, after Suzanne Lenglen had turned professional, Helen Wills, at 21, was admittedly the ablest amateur woman tennis player in the world. In 1929, she was presented...
...lanky, lantern-jawed Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, then famed only as a basketball player, proved at the Olympic Games that she was the world's best woman track athlete. In 1934, she learned baseball well enough to pitch in exhibition games for the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Athletics. She took up golf, became good enough by last spring to win the Texas Women's championship, to have the U. S. Golf Association declare her no amateur. Said she at the time: "I have decided to become a 'business woman' golfer, following the example of such outstanding golf stars as Joyce Wethered...
Against Josephine Souchek, 17-year-old daughter of a Chicago truck farmer, Miss Didrikson had a narrow escape in the quarterfinals, managed to win on the 19th hole. Next day, while Helen Hicks was losing to Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City, who later won the tournament, Babe Didrikson was beaten by able Elaine Rosenthal Reinhardt of Winnetka, Ill., runner-up at 15 for the National Amateur Championship of 1914. Experts agreed that Babe Didrikson can already outdrive any other woman golfer, that she would need another year of practice before her short game and putting are as good...