Babe Didriksen

Dose anybody like sports? Well I do. I want to tell you about a woman sports hero I like. She probably played every sport that she could play. Her name was Babe Didrikson. Born 1913, she was the best women athlete ever. Let me tell you what she did. She won twice in the women basketball team and made three national records in track field games. She was a contender in the 1932 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles. She won the javelin throw (143 ft) and the 80-m hurdle (11.7sec) and then played professional basketball. She played professional golf. Between 1936 and 1954 she won every major women's golf championship, including the U.S. Amateur Championship (1946), and the World Championship (1948, 1949, 1850), and the U.S. Women's Open (1946, 1950, and 1951), both professional tournaments. Babe died in 1956.

1998, by Roy, fourth grade

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