Word: didrikson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, 25, famed woman athlete, 1932 Olympic Games track & field star, expert basketball player, golfer, javelin thrower, hurdler, high jumper, swimmer, baseball pitcher, football halfback, billiardist, tumbler, boxer, wrestler, fencer, weight lifter, adagio dancer; and George Zaharias, 29, heavyweight wrestler; in St. Louis...
...played in his first public golf match, for a child welfare charity. Came 12,000 oglers who overran tees, fairways, greens, bags, players, so confounded Golfer Moore-Montague that on the sixth hole his approach shot landed on a spectator's pate. The foursome-including Babes Ruth and Didrikson-gave up at the 9th, with Montague 2 down to Ruth...
...over the Medinah Country Club course; at Chicago. Also entered but not among the 86 who qualified for the last day's play were: prodigious u-year-old Donald Dunkelberger of High Point N. C.; one-armed Jimmy Nichols, who swings backhanded, easily drives 250 yards; Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, 1932 Olympic track star, now a professional golfer...
...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...
...Ranch and Trading Post," Corpus Christi ships cotton, with shrimp and oysters as sidelines. Port Aransas is the world's greatest crude oil shipping port and a famed fishing resort. Port Arthur, founded by John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, and Beaumont, birthplace of Athlete Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, form the world's biggest oil refining centre...