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...Babe Didrikson, famed female track athlete of the '30s, popped back into the sports pages by winning a major golf tournament. Now 30, she trounced a 20-year-old college girl, Dorothy Germain, in the finals of the Women's Western Open, at Chicago. As usual, Babe's booming drives were seldom in the fairway, but her recoveries were so phenomenal that she had 14 one-putt greens in 31 holes...
Winner (with 97 points, 23 firsts) was Bobby Jones's 1930 "Grand Slam," the winning of both the U.S. and British Amateur and Open Golf Championships. Second (39 and 7) was Babe Ruth's pitching, fielding and homers. Among the 43 also-rans were two women (Babe Didrikson, Swimmer Nancy Merki) and three horses (Seabiscuit, Man o' War and Exterminator). Not a vote went to the most famous athlete in history: wrestling Jacob...
...Thorpe the best all-around athlete of all time? No, not versatile enough. Babe Didrikson? Runner-up, perhaps. Well, who was? Harris Baldwin Fisher Jr., said Grantland Rice, and he wrote a column last week to prove it. Even the unconvinced would have to admit that Grant Rice's surprise selection was worth arguing...
...Onetime U. S. Champion Helen Hicks Harb, Kansas City's hardy, 48-year-old Opal Hill and Washington's young Helen Dettweiler exhibit their talents at country clubs to promote Wilson golfing equipment. Husky Helen MacDonald, onetime wife of a Chicago pro, runs a golf school. Babe Didrikson Zaharias, famed 1932 Olympic track star, travels around with her husband, Wrestler George Zaharias, gives exhibitions...
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...