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...sidekick Bob Hope were barnstorming the country on golf exhibitions with professionals such as Byron Nelson and Harold McSpaden. "Lord" Byron, the leading money-winner of 1945, and "Childe" Harold were then known as "The Gold Dust Twins." Crosby teamed up with woman professional and former Olympian Mildred "Babe" Didrickson in a series of War Bond exhibitions on the Coast. By the end of the war, over $600 million worth of War Bonds had been sold through golf tournaments and exhibitions...
...loss of last year's captain Lissa Muscatine, Radcliffe's answer to Babe Didrickson, is the only real problem that the team faces right now. Rita Funaro, Diana Olney, Kathy Fulton, and Andy Okamura should fill out the final four spots in style, as all saw varsity action last spring...
Hopefully a winner in her third bedridden round with cancer, courageous Super-Athlete Babe Didrickson Zaharias, 42, checked out of a Galveston, Texas hospital. The leg and hip pains that brought her there were eased after intensive X-ray treatments. A full and final recovery? Said a doctor: "You can't always tell about those things...
...Grossinger's also shelters sportsmen: Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano is training there now for his September fight with Roland La Starza. Channel Swimmer Florence Chadwick was a Grossinger pro, as was Golfer Babe Didrickson Zaharias...
...Wichita, Kans., Babe Didrickson Zaharias, her second Women's National Open Golf Championship, by a nine-stroke edge over second-place Betsy Rawis. ¶ In London, California's Pancho Gonzales, the singles championship of the Wembley International Indoor Professional Tennis Tournament, in straight sets, over Welby Van Horn...