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...British had never seen anything quite like Texas' wisecracking Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias. "She must be Superman's sister," one spectator whispered after the Babe whacked a whistling drive down the fairway last week in the British women's amateur golf championship at Gullane, Scotland. The Babe nearly always outdrove her opponents by 50 to 100 yards. On one nine, she came in two under men's par. Between rounds she entertained galleryites with trick shots and her impressions of the highland fling...
...Father, putting on an act of what he called "wrathful psychology," broke her niblick over his knee. She cried, repented, and went back to her practicing, thereupon won the Palm Springs Invitational Tournament (with play that included a par 70). Marlene's ambition: to beat National Champion Babe Didrikson Zaharias...
...Tampa the crowd edged in closer to see Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias whack out a golf ball. It was a sight all right, but there were risks; the Babe, among her other great talents, has a sharp tongue. Said she to the crowd: "I know I'm good, but not this good. I have to have room to hit the ball." As the gallery fell back, she took a look toward the flag, waggled once, and sent the ball flying...
There are few men in the land who can outdrive husky Babe Didrikson; she once slammed a ball 408 yards, averages an amazing 240. But the Babe contributes more to ladies' golf than just swat: she is a crowd-puller. Unlike most women golfers, who are timid before an audience, the Babe in her showmanship is as subtle as a punch on the nose. When she spotted a photographer trying to take her picture, she yelled, "I'm not so bad that you have to have your thumb over the lens, am I?" At Orlando, she quipped...
Most versatile woman athlete: Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias, who won A.P.'s "woman of the year" award 13 years ago as a track star, repeated this year as a golfer...