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...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...
Just after she made herself the most astonishing track & field figure of the 1932 Olympic Games, Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, lean, hungry-looking Dallas insurance clerk, announced that when she got around to it she would become a golf champion (TIME...
Last week at Houston, playing in the final of the Texas Golf Association's women's championship. Golfer Didrikson came to the 34th hole all even with her opponent, Mrs. Dan Chandler, champion of Mexico. Mrs. Chandler got a birdie four. Babe Didrikson passed the green with her second shot, chipped her next into the cup for an eagle three. Then she won the 35th hole with a birdie four for match & title...
...Professional Championship, did not even qualify. Josef Paul Cuckoschay (Jack Sharkey) of Boston retrieved the world's heavyweight boxing championship for the U. S. from Germany's Maximilian Adolf Otto Siegfried Schmeling in a bout that satisfied few patrons. All-around athlete of 1932 was Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson of Dallas who scored more individual points in the Olympics than any other participant. Last week Miss Didrikson turned professional...
When the Amateur Athletic Union suspended Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, the one-girl track team of Dallas, Tex., on suspicion of having sold an automobile testimonial (TIME, Dec. 19), many an observer reflected that if ever it was logical for anyone to make a living from athletic ability, it was logical for Babe Didrikson, expert exponent of all sports. Last week, while the A. A. U. pondered her case, she announced that they need ponder no longer, that she would turn professional out & out. The Southern A. A. U. soon announced that she was exonerated, reinstated. But logical Babe Didrikson closed...