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...championships in Evanston last summer, a lean, rangy, dark-haired girl from Dallas, Tex. won six first places. She amassed for her team-of which she was the only member-a total of 30 points, to 20 points for a team of 22 which finished second. Overnight Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, a typist for Dallas Employers' Casualty Co., had become a national sports figure. At the Olympic Games two weeks later she won two first prizes (javelin throw, 80-meter hurdles), a second in the high-jump when her best jump was disqualified for ''diving." She complained bitterly...
...made any pretense at listing all the pastimes at which Miss Didrikson is about as expert as anyone of her sex, it would have to include weightlifting, wrestling, fencing, croquet, field hockey, soccer, polo, shooting, rowing, skating, bowling, pool, lacrosse, cooking. She holds the women's world record for throwing a baseball. She got her first newspaper publicity when, in a Dallas store "One look at its trim beauty and you know it has class." two years ago, she hoisted a 50-lb. weight over head. A physical freak in her ability to co-ordinate her actions with...
Women. Of the 140 women contestants in the Xth Olympiad, by far the most spectacular was Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson of Dallas, Tex. The first event she won was the javelin throw with a world's record of 143 ft. 4 in. She explained that she would have thrown it further if it had not slipped out of her hand. In the 80-metre hurdles she set another world's record of 11.7 sec. Disgusted at not being allowed to compete in the discus throw (won by Lillian Copeland of the U. S.) and 100-metre dash [won by Stanislawa Walasiewicz...
When Mildred Didrikson was in her last year at high school a coach who saw her play basketball got her a job with Dallas Employers' Casualty Co. which sponsors a girls' basketball team called the Golden Cyclones. Cyclone Didrikson began to take an interest in track & field athletics. At the A. A. U. championships for women last month she won five championships, tied for another. Last week, lean, vehement, 21-year-old Babe Didrikson was hungrily contemplating further activities. Said she: "I expect our basketball team . . . to win the national championship. I'll be the high scorer. . . . My mind...
...Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, best athlete of Dallas, Tex.: the running broad jump, baseball throw and 80-metre hurdles championships for women, with a world's record (12 sec.) in the hurdle race. In the same meet, at Jersey City, famed Stella Walsh was arrested for throwing a discus which accidentally cracked the pate of a spectator...