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Didrikson Making Good Claim***** *****She Would Be Topnotch Golfer!FORT WORTH, Nov. 20. —» They laughed when Mildred “Babe Didrikson. while being acclaimed the wonder girl athlete of the Olympic garner, tossed back her j head, blew hair out of her eyes and proclaimed to the world that she was going to be a golf championWhen she returned to Dallas from her amazing Olympic conquests. her home-town folkt shined up an automobile and gave her a ride up Elm and down Mam which ' was followed by a city wide popularity banquet honoring the Babe. That night the Babe made a brief speech. It was:*'Well, the Olympics are over. I still think I won the high jump but officials claimed I fouled, j That's O K by me. I'm going back to work at the insurance office. but some day I'm coming back . to you as a golf champion instead of an Olympic champion. And say, folks, thanks for that ride today, it was swell.”Is Given RibbingPerhaps i t wasn't exactly the right thing to do by Babe, but before the week was over, several sports writers ribbed Babe into several friendly golf matches just to get stories proving that she couldn't break a hundred with a baseball bat if it was painted on a glass window Babe knew it. but she took the gaff with a grinThe world of sports had a perfect right to snicker up its well j worn sleeve when Babe announced her championship golf intentions, for golf happens to be a bewilder- j ing game that few persons can j conquer smack off the bat. Professional and amateur stars of thelinks doubted if Babe could ever Ibe any more than just another weak hittmg woman dub. Even i Babes best friends could not believe in her golf career and they . told her so.It has been two years since the Olympics and Babe is no longer the amateur kid of Olympic day She has seen much of the world,; * she has learned much about life, the sweet and the bitter. She has ’ made big money and lost big money as a professional athlete. On the screen and on the stage she was a sensation as long as j her Olympic glory lasted. Then, like all headliners, she faded out; | only to bob up last summer a: pitcher on the House of David baseball team.hoots Medal ScoreDallas had almost iorgotten the Babe until last Sunday when apre-tournament story carried a paragraph that the Babe would compete in the second annual Fort Worth Woman's Oolf Asso- j j ciation It ornament.“So she is still trying to be a golf champion. ’ some one said. Why doesn t she realize she was ; washed up as a golfer before she 1 ever started **But Midred Bab':*’ Didrikson is again a headliner. Babe played over a rain drenched Fort W*orth River Crest course and bagged a 38-39—77 to be medalist. She beat such stars as Mrs. Dan Chandler, termer Texas champion and current Old Mexico champion, and Mrs. Frank Goldtliwaite. Texts and f Tner southern queen.And Wednesday Babe went out to play her first tournament j match.
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Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas, US
Wed, Nov 21, 1934
Page 5
Full Page
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Michael W.
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