Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-27 | Page 11 | Texas Girl Track Star Scorns Boys Never Saw Hurdle until 2 Months Ago

3 i C A. A Cn C Texas Girl Track n dial Star Scorns r Aino Boys Lass Who Set Records Likes All Sports f 4 Never Saw Hurdle Until 2 Months Ago B By Henry McLemore ore United Press Correspondent NEW YORK July 27 Joe Cook who can cap do everything e but imitate Imitate imi tate four Ha aHans has nothing on Mildred Call Me MeI t Babe DidrIkson an old year amazon amazon amazon am am- ri I azon from Dallas r Texas In filet fact after af- af L. af-L. af-A af ter ten watching B Babes Babe's n a b es e's amazing g pt performance i 1 ithe n nhe i he the national MUon worn worn- 9 1 sn's ns track and field championships on Sat Saturday u r day and talking with her we are arc Inclined tc to believe belleve the Texas Texa girl could not only imitate four Ha Ha- but five I i is 15 well And nay nay-jj v i. 30 e sL six sL Babe who hadn't even so much as seen a track meet two years ago competed com corn in three thres events all the law liw allos allows al al- lows s and the best she could do was to 0 break worlds world's records in two of or them and thoroughly outdistance her herfield field In the other She still stUl was puff puff- ing ng from running the 80 meter hurdles hur hun dIes in the amazing time of 12 flat when we decided to ask her a few questions Between puffs we learned that THOUGHT TIME IE SLOW She was we-s thoroughly disappointed with her time of 12 seconds thought I It pretty slow She never saw a hurdle until two months ago go when she ran against a field of men and won In a walk Saturday marked her third appearance in a hurdle race She likes all sports sport and is good at atall atall atall all of th them m. m That goes for polo pin ping ping- pong pons baseball boxing swimming squash quash rackets racket and what have you Is rs particularly good at basketball being forward of the team that holds the he national championship Swell boxer Mixed it up with W V L. L Young StrIbling's brother Herbert Her Her- bert bent a fairish welterweight s and smacked him a sw sweet t one on the tile nose Trains the year ear around by mor In ing ng from one sport to another Has a magnificent scorn for bo boys s Thinks they are afraid of ot her Stands 5 feet 6 0 12 2 In inches and wel weighs hs 28 In her birthday clothes Knows she is not pretty but considers herself her her- self sel graceful She's right on both points point Is Ls of ot Norwegian parentage and works In ImI a Dallas insurance office of nee flee as lS an un expert rater The 1931 meet by the way was miserably handled This was probably ably due to ro the fact that Pershing field In Jersey City is a sprawling unattractive park and fit for nothing noth In ing more Important than a n grammar school meet The officials apparently had made macic little or no provisions ro to handle the crowds with the result that spectators wandered over the track and field at will It Ita was a this haphazard state of ot affairs that led to one of the spectators being hit and badly Injured by a discus thrown by Stella Steila Walsh the tho Cleveland sprint star S 5