Friends of Yardley-Makefield Library

Saturday, May 19   2:00pm

Linda Kenyon will appear as famed woman athlete Babe Didrikson at the library at 2:00pm on Saturday, May 19, 2012.  This free program is sponsored by the Friends; no registration is required.

At a young age tough, scrappy and mischievous Mildred Ella (Babe) Didrikson was determined to become the best athlete that ever was.  At the 1932 Olympics, she won gold in the javelin throw and 80 meter hurdles, and silver in the high jump, and besides track and field, she mastered tennis, high diving, billiards, baseball, basketball, bowling, and most especially golf, for which she is most remembered.  She founded the Ladies Professional Golf Association in 1949 along with five other women.  She married a professional wrestler, George Zaharias, who helped to manage her career, and with whom she had a  sometimes stormy relationship.  She was taught to “act like a lady” by Bertha Bowen, a Texas society woman, and fought a valiant and public battle against cancer, returning to win golf tournaments after a colostomy.  She died of cancer at age forty five. 

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