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Olympic Games - 1932 Los Angeles

Olympic Games - 1932 Los Angeles

Mildred ' Babe' Didrikson  Javelin and 80 Metres Hurdles

Struck out Joe DiMaggio, Jim Thorpe

For sheer athletic ability, Mildred (Babe) Didrikson may have been more versatile than Jim Thorpe. She led the Dallas Cyclones to three AAU national basketball championships and scored 106 points in one game.

She pitched for the House of David men's touring baseball team and once struck out Joe DiMaggio. Pro basketball, billiards, handball, swimming, diving, lacrosse, football, boxing -- she did them all and, she was quick to point out, she did them better than the next person. She was good at everything -- typing (86 words a minute), gin rummy, cooking, dancing, harmonica playing and crossword puzzles.

'The best way to take athletics, 'she said, 'is to like them all. Athletics are all I care for. I sleep them, eat them, talk them and try my level best to do them as they should be done.' The first time she tried golf, without a lesson, she shot 95 for 18 holes.

After three lessons, she was down to 83 and driving the ball 250 yards. In 1934, in her first tournament, she shot 77. She took the game so seriously that she spent 12 to 16 hours a day on weekends hitting golf balls until the blisters on her hands broke.

She won 17 consecutive amateur tournaments, and when she turned professional she helped point the women's tour to its present importance. In 15 years, she won 55 amateur and pro tournaments.

The Texas girl, all by herself, won or tied for first place in a half dozen events in the national women's track and field championships, collecting enough points to win the team title. She captured the Olympic javelin throw and 80-meter hurdles with world's record performances and finished second to Miss Jean Shiley in the high jump. She has played football, is a star at basketball and wallops a golf ball well over 200 yards.

First:

Village to house men

Victory Stand

Photo Finish Camera

First to shorten 16 days previously 80 days.

Buster Crabbe, the great American swimmer who was to go on to make a name in Hollywood as Tarzan, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.