Word: didrickson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...