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SPORTS HORNBy BILL PARKERAssociated Press Sports WriterProviding her team can find suitable opposition, Mildred Babe Didrikson has a chance to cash in on her athletic fame this winter. She has been signed by Ray Doan, sports promoter, as a leader of a girls’ basketball team. Doan is the* man who sponsors theHouse of David baseball team. Hewill assemble his basketball team immediately after His baseball team closes in Milwaukee, September 24.Bab** Didrikson is a marvelous basketball jdayer, She won her first fame as a member of the Dalles Golden Cvclines the year they won the National A. A. U. championship.An accurae goal shooter, splendid passer and fast court worker,Miss Didrikson finally has stepped Into an athletic branch that gives her a chance to appear before the public in something at which she isn’t a novice. Her idea at going east and trying to complete in billiard matches, ping-pong contests and boxing was out of her line.Doan claims he has guaranteed Miss Didrikson a large sum to lead the All-Star Girls’ Basketball team. Possibilities are that Babe Is going to cut in on the gate receipts the same as Grover Cleveland Alexander does as a member of the House of David teamthe world over as being the hotbed of feminine cage stars, altho the National A, A U. crown laKj a ... • * V • \T.hel dby the Oklahoma Presbyterian College girls at Durant, 'these girls played moat of their careers.against such teams as the Golden Cyclones, Trerevant-Cochrn, the Schepps Aces and Dallas Shoe Shop teams of Dallas.Babe Is sure to be a drawing card in Southwestern states where she has played most of her basketball. Even it she plays only a few games she should reap a riched harvest on the painted courtthan si»e ever could in track andfield where she won her greatest fame during the Olympics.i*Do youi atltution*.tmNMfllA. A. V.theandareFinding competition will be toughest part for the Doan Dikrikson venture. There plenty of feminine teams capable cf giving Babe and her sextet all the competition they care for but those teams can't play against Babe and retaUi their national A. A U, standing. The A A. U. basketball code strictly forbids any amateur organisation going on the court against a professional unit, exhibition, chanty or otherwise.There is a chance Doan will recruit a number of Texas girlr to play with Babe. Texas is notedCHIIGoodBroadlt; fast elt;styles.(i*Wl DO OUR PART
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Denton Record Chronicle
Denton, Texas, US
Fri, Sep 15, 1933
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