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Texas Feminine Athletic Star Impresses Burleigh GrimesHOT SPRINGS, Ark., March 14.— OP)—Babe Didrickson would be one of the best prospects in baseball if she j were a boy, said Burleigh Grimes of jthe Cardinal hurling staff after watch-ing the noted woman athlete /ork j out here with pupils of the Ray Doan ; baseball school.But since Babe is a girl, Grimes still thinks she is the wonder of the athletic world. The Texan who flashed across the Olympic horizon also convinced newspaper correspondents here that she can play ball, and that she is fully competent to take her place in the box.The Babe has mastered somewhat of a curve, too, that surprised those who gathered to watch her in action. She also showed a flash of the speed that enabled her to hang up a record in the 80-meter Olympic event when, during batting practice, she hit one to short and easily beat out the throw to first.Babe will go into the box in New Orleans Sunday for the Cleveland Indians against the Crescent City Pelicans. On March 20, she will pitch ; for Connie Mack’s Athletics in Fort; Meyers, Fla., against Brooklyn, and | on March 22 will start for the Cards in their game against the Boston Red Sox at Bradenton, Fla. It Is likely, it was said, that she will remain with the Cards on their trip north.
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Monroe News Star
Monroe, Louisiana, US
Wed, Mar 14, 1934
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