1947
St. Augustine, Florida, United States
Babe Didrikson Zaharias looks out over the St. Augustine, Florida course where she won the Florida East Coast championship.
3443 Fannett Rd, Beaumont, TX 77705, United States
Babe Didrikson Zaharias attended Beaumont High School.
1929
Babe Zaharias in action
1931
Babe Zaharias drives off during the open tournament at Wentworth. Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos.
1932
Babe Zaharias, the outstanding woman athlete of the age, and winner of the hurdle and javelin throw events of the Tenth Olympic Games, is shown as throwing the javelin.
1932
Babe Didrikson Zaharias wearing training clothes and a scarf. Photo by New York Times Co.
1932
Los Angeles, California, United States
Babe Zaharias jumps over a hurdle in an event she won at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles.
1932
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins the 80-meter hurdles at the Olympic tryouts in Evanston, Illinois.
1932
Los Angeles, California, United States
Babe Zaharias, shortly after setting a world record in the javelin competition (threw a distance of 143' 4") at the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
1932
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Babe Zaharias working out at Dyche Stadium, Evanston, where she would compete in the Women's National A.A.U. meet and final Olympic tryouts.
1933
New York City, New York, United States
Babe Zaharias (left) and pool player Ruth McGinnis practise for the Women's Professional Pocket Billiard Championship in New York City. Photo by FPG.
1933
Los Angeles, California, United States
Babe Zaharias and Stanley Kentes, a golf professional, shaking hands in Los Angeles.
1933
Illinois, United States
Babe Didrikson Zaharias at training, Illinois. Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone.
1947
Babe Didrikson Zaharias holds the trophy of the American Ladies Open Golf Championship as she stands aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth prior to leaving for the United States. Photo by Popperfoto.
1948
Babe Zaharias poses for an action portrait. Photo by Diamond Images.
1950
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Winner Babe Didrikson Zaharias (right) and runner-up Patty Berg (left) at the All-American golf championship at the Tam O'Shanter Country Club, Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Underwood Archives.
1950
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Babe Zaharias with an American golfer Claude Harmon walk together on the golf course at the Everglades Club during a game, Palm Beach, Florida. Photo by Bert Morgan.
1951
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Babe Didrikson Zaharias uses a bit of body english to sink a putt at the All-American tournament at Chicago's Tam-O'Shanter Country Club, Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Underwood Archives.
1952
Babe Zaharias teeing up for an action.
1954
Babe Didrikson Zaharias grins and hugs the cup she received after becoming the first three-time winner of the U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship with a 72-hole 291.
Babe Zaharias holds a trophy aloft after winning a tournament, the 1940s. Photo by Archive Photos.
Houston, Texas, United States
Babe Zaharias holding the trophy she won in gaining the State Women's Golf Championship at Houston.
Babe Zaharias jumping over a hurdle.
Pebble Beach, California, United States
Babe Zaharias gives a golf demonstration on teeing off in a tight skirt at the Weathervane golf tournament, Pebble Beach, California, about 1951. Photo by Julian Graham/Underwood Archives.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias with the Birtish Women's Amateur Championship Cup which left England for the first time. Photo by Walter Engels/NY Daily News Archive.
Babe Zaharias holding Women's National Open Golf Tourney trophy and waving check representing first prize of $1,200.00.
New York City, New York, United States
Babe Zaharias practices as a basketball player of the Brooklyn Yankees, a girls team, at Arcadia Hall in Brooklyn.
Babe Zaharias
Gullane, Scotland
Babe Zaharias competing in the British Women's Golf Tournament at Gullane, Scotland.
Babe Zaharias in action
United States
Babe Zaharias working out at the gym. Photo by NY Daily News Archive.
Babe Zaharias and Ben Hogan (left) exchange congratulations at Tam O'Shanter Country Club where they each won World Championship of Golf titles.
101 W Main St, White Sulphur Springs, WV 24986, United States
Babe Zaharias at the pool in the Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
New York City, New York, United States
Babe Zaharias intended to box with Babe Ruth at Artie McGovern's Gym in New York City.
Babe Zaharias and Mrs. Sherman at the Women's National Amateur Golf Tournament. Photo by Cornell Capa/The LIFE Picture Collection.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias waves to cheering crowds from her place atop the float which carried her through Denver during one of the greatest public demonstrations ever accorded an individual in the mile high city.
(From left to right) Betty Jameson, Patty Berg, Betsy Rawls, Babe Zaharias, and Louise Suggs. All have won the National Women's Open. Zaharias has won it twice.
Eighty-meter hurdles' winner's podium. (From left to right) Evelyn Hall, second, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, first, and Marjorie Clark, third.
Golfers Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Patty Berg (far left) at a trophy presentation, about 1950. Photo by Underwood Archives.
(From left to right) Unknown, Louise Suggs, Babe Zaharias, and Patty Berg. Photo by Lane Bros.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias holds contract she signed to appear at sportsmen's shows in New York City, Boston, and Detroit. Sheldon Fairbanks (left), of Campbell-Fairbanks expositions, and her business manager, Fred Corcoran, are with her.
Participants of the 45th annual Women's Western Amateur Golf Tournament. (From left to right) Phyllis Otto, Louise Suggs, Ann Casey, Dorothy Germain, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
1954
Babe Didrikson Zaharias grins and hugs the cup she received after becoming the first three-time winner of the U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship with a 72-hole 291.
1932
Los Angeles, California, United States
Babe Zaharias throws the javelin to win the gold medal during the Women's track and field javelin event at the Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games.
1932
Los Angeles, California, United States
The winners of the Los Angeles Olympics high jump for women after the final of their event at the Los Angeles Stadium. (From left to right) Jean Shiley, gold medal winner, Babe Zaharias, silver medal winner, and Eva Dawes of Canada, bronze medal winner.
1929
Babe Zaharias in action
1931
Babe Zaharias drives off during the open tournament at Wentworth. Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos.
1932
Babe Zaharias, the outstanding woman athlete of the age, and winner of the hurdle and javelin throw events of the Tenth Olympic Games, is shown as throwing the javelin.
1932
Babe Didrikson Zaharias wearing training clothes and a scarf. Photo by New York Times Co.
1932
Los Angeles, California, United States
Babe Zaharias jumps over a hurdle in an event she won at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles.
1932
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins the 80-meter hurdles at the Olympic tryouts in Evanston, Illinois.
1932
Los Angeles, California, United States
The winners of the Los Angeles Olympics high jump for women after the final of their event at the Los Angeles Stadium. (From left to right) Jean Shiley, gold medal winner, Babe Zaharias, silver medal winner, and Eva Dawes of Canada, bronze medal winner.
1932
Los Angeles, California, United States
Babe Zaharias throws the javelin to win the gold medal during the Women's track and field javelin event at the Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games.
1932
Los Angeles, California, United States
Babe Zaharias, shortly after setting a world record in the javelin competition (threw a distance of 143' 4") at the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
1932
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Babe Zaharias working out at Dyche Stadium, Evanston, where she would compete in the Women's National A.A.U. meet and final Olympic tryouts.
1932
Los Angeles, California, United States
Babe Zaharias at the Summer Olympics
1933
New York City, New York, United States
Babe Zaharias (left) and pool player Ruth McGinnis practise for the Women's Professional Pocket Billiard Championship in New York City. Photo by FPG.
1933
Los Angeles, California, United States
Babe Zaharias and Stanley Kentes, a golf professional, shaking hands in Los Angeles.
1933
Illinois, United States
Babe Didrikson Zaharias at training, Illinois. Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone.
1938
Beaumont, Texas, United States
Babe Zaharias and American wrestler George Zaharias after announcing their engagement, Beaumont, Texas. Photo by APA.
1947
Babe Didrikson Zaharias holds the trophy of the American Ladies Open Golf Championship as she stands aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth prior to leaving for the United States. Photo by Popperfoto.
1947
Babe Ruth signs a baseball for Babe Zaharias.
1948
Babe Zaharias poses for an action portrait. Photo by Diamond Images.
1948
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, borrows a typewriter in The Denver Post sports department to write her sports page column for The Post and other leading newspaper of the nation. Photo By Cloyd Teter/The Denver Post.
1950
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Winner Babe Didrikson Zaharias (right) and runner-up Patty Berg (left) at the All-American golf championship at the Tam O'Shanter Country Club, Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Underwood Archives.
1950
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Babe Zaharias with an American golfer Claude Harmon walk together on the golf course at the Everglades Club during a game, Palm Beach, Florida. Photo by Bert Morgan.
1950
223 S Westlink, Wichita, KS 67209, United States
Babe Zaharias gives her caddy a big kiss after she shot a course record at the U.S. Open at the Rolling Hills Country Club, Wichita, Kansas. Photo by Underwood Archives.
1951
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Babe Didrikson Zaharias uses a bit of body english to sink a putt at the All-American tournament at Chicago's Tam-O'Shanter Country Club, Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Underwood Archives.
1952
Babe Zaharias teeing up for an action.
1952
American actor Spencer Tracy smiling with golf players Beverly Hanson, Helen Dettweiler, Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Betty Hicks in Pat and Mike. Photo by Mondadori Portfolio.
1954
Babe Didrikson Zaharias grins and hugs the cup she received after becoming the first three-time winner of the U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship with a 72-hole 291.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
3443 Fannett Rd, Beaumont, TX 77705, United States
Babe Didrikson Zaharias attended Beaumont High School.
Babe Zaharias holds a trophy aloft after winning a tournament, the 1940s. Photo by Archive Photos.
Houston, Texas, United States
Babe Zaharias holding the trophy she won in gaining the State Women's Golf Championship at Houston.
Babe Zaharias jumping over a hurdle.
Pebble Beach, California, United States
Babe Zaharias gives a golf demonstration on teeing off in a tight skirt at the Weathervane golf tournament, Pebble Beach, California, about 1951. Photo by Julian Graham/Underwood Archives.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias with the Birtish Women's Amateur Championship Cup which left England for the first time. Photo by Walter Engels/NY Daily News Archive.
Babe Zaharias holding Women's National Open Golf Tourney trophy and waving check representing first prize of $1,200.00.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias embraces her husband, American wrestler George Zaharias, about 1955. Photo by Hulton Archive.
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Babe Zaharias has fun with a sidesaddle and pistols on a mechanical horse, New Orleans, Louisiana, about 1952. Photo by Underwood Archives.
New York City, New York, United States
Babe Zaharias practices as a basketball player of the Brooklyn Yankees, a girls team, at Arcadia Hall in Brooklyn.
Babe Zaharias
Babe Zaharias
Gullane, Scotland
Babe Zaharias competing in the British Women's Golf Tournament at Gullane, Scotland.
Babe Zaharias in action
United States
Babe Zaharias working out at the gym. Photo by NY Daily News Archive.
Babe Zaharias waves her hat gleefully after winning her fifth All-American tourney at the Tam O'Shanter Golf Course in the women's pro division, while her caddy, Whitey Lieatke, grins.
Babe Zaharias takes time out from the World Championship of Golf at Chicago's Tam O'Shanter to heat up some of her irons in a furnace.
Babe Zaharias and Ben Hogan (left) exchange congratulations at Tam O'Shanter Country Club where they each won World Championship of Golf titles.
Babe Zaharias during Tam O'Shanter golf tournament. Photo by Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection.
101 W Main St, White Sulphur Springs, WV 24986, United States
Babe Zaharias at the pool in the Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
Babe Zaharias writing back home in Dallas, Texas.
New York City, New York, United States
Babe Zaharias intended to box with Babe Ruth at Artie McGovern's Gym in New York City.
Babe Zaharias and Mrs. Sherman at the Women's National Amateur Golf Tournament. Photo by Cornell Capa/The LIFE Picture Collection.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias waves to cheering crowds from her place atop the float which carried her through Denver during one of the greatest public demonstrations ever accorded an individual in the mile high city.
(From left to right) Patty Berg, Babe Zaharias and Louise Suggs are shown fighting for the Women's Trophy at the World Championship Golf Tournament at the Tam O'Shanter Country Club.
Sharkey the seal balances a golf ball on his nose so that Babe Didrikson Zaharias can sock it off.
Dallas, Texas, United States
Babe Didrikson Zaharias at work
Babe Didrikson Zaharias indicates the 76 score she shot in the opening round of the $13,333 links event at the Riviera Country Club.
(From left to right) Betty Jameson, Patty Berg, Betsy Rawls, Babe Zaharias, and Louise Suggs. All have won the National Women's Open. Zaharias has won it twice.
Tampa, Florida, United States
Babe Zaharias unpacks her bags with the help of a Betty Dodd (right), a professional golfer, after they both arrived at the Babe's Tampa, Florida, home from Texas.
Eighty-meter hurdles' winner's podium. (From left to right) Evelyn Hall, second, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, first, and Marjorie Clark, third.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias during Tam O'Shanter golf tournament. Photo by Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection.
Golfers Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Patty Berg (far left) at a trophy presentation, about 1950. Photo by Underwood Archives.
Dwight David Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, shakes hands with Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
(From left to right) Unknown, Louise Suggs, Babe Zaharias, and Patty Berg. Photo by Lane Bros.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias holds contract she signed to appear at sportsmen's shows in New York City, Boston, and Detroit. Sheldon Fairbanks (left), of Campbell-Fairbanks expositions, and her business manager, Fred Corcoran, are with her.
Participants of the 45th annual Women's Western Amateur Golf Tournament. (From left to right) Phyllis Otto, Louise Suggs, Ann Casey, Dorothy Germain, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
Babe Zaharias. Photo by PGA of America.
1948
Fresno, California, United States
Babe Didrikson (left) plays harmonica accompanying her friend Betty Dodd who is playing guitar. Photo from the collection of Underwood Archives.
Professional wrestler George Zaharias, Babe Didrikson Zaharias' husband
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This autobiography tells the story of one of the greatest female athletes of all time who inspired a generation of women and girls.
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golfer athlete basketball player
Ethnicity:
Zaharias's parents immigrated to the United States from Norway.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, née Mildred Ella Didricksen, was born on June 26, 1911 in Port Authur, Texas, United States. She was the second-to-last kid of seven children in a family of Ole Nikolai Didriksen, a ship's woodworker and cabinetmaker, and Hannah Marie Didricksen, a one-time skier and skater. Babe Didrikson had six siblings.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias' family relocated to Beaumont, Texas, in 1915, fleeing from the consequences of a hurricane in her native Port Arthur. Since her school years, Zaharias collected lots of part-time jobs, including sewing gunny sacks, to help her big and quite poor family.
Dubbed "Baby" by her relatives, Zaharias revealed her passion for sports at an early age. Active, strong, and competitive, she preferred to compete with boys, including her brothers, rather than with girls in such street plays as racing against streetcars or sandlot ball games, where she was a powerhouse hitter and a strong pitcher. Zaharias herself looked much more like a boy, having short hair and wearing boys' clothes.
Supporting Zaharias' ambition of becoming "the greatest athlete that ever lived," her father built a barbell using a broomstick and two heavy flatirons. Zaharias always stated that she was immensely grateful for such an encouragement of her athletic aspirations on his part.
Studying at Beaumont High School, Zaharias was hardly good at the most part of subjects, to say the least, but made up for it with her accomplishments on the athletic field. She even had to repeat her eighth grade. By the age of fifteen, Babe Didrikson Zaharias was the high-scoring forward on the school's girls' basketball team which never lost a game when she was its member. Zaharias forsook school and concentrated on her athletic career instead.
The start of Babe Didrikson Zaharias' career can be counted from 1930 when she joined the Employers Casualty Company of Dallas, Texas, as a typist and stenographer. The company was a sponsor of a women's basketball team, the Golden Cyclones, coached by Melvorne J. McCombs who had noted Zaharias' athletic talent when she played for Beaumont Senior High School basketball team. She was paid $75 a month for her secretarial services, and kept her status of an "amateur" athlete. It was an important detail at that time because athletes who made money on their sport weren't allowed to participate in many competitions, including the Olympics.
Playing on the company's basketball, baseball, diving, tennis, and track and field teams, she soon became a star athlete due to her competitiveness and brash confidence. The company's basketball team won the national championship in 1930, 1931, and 1932, and Zaharias was a National Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) All-American forward for the Women's National Basketball League for all three years.
In 1931, at the national AAU track meet, which was the qualifying meet for the 1932 Olympics, Zaharias competed in eight of ten events, winning gold medals in five and tying for gold in a sixth. Competing at the next year AAU championships as a one-woman team, Zaharias earned six individual titles and topped the team standings with 30 points. It was eight more points than the second-place Illinois Women's Athletic Club, composed of 20 women, accumulated.
A favorite of the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, Babe Didrikson Zaharias fulfilled the expectations and won two gold medals, 80-metre hurdles and the javelin throw, and a silver medal in the high jump. Zaharias didn't stop there and attacked other sports, football, boxing, softball, swimming, figure skating, and billiards. As for golf, she began to practice it casually the year of the Olympic Games, and it became a kind of her specialty by 1934 when she won her first tournament. Four years later, Zaharias was the first woman to take part in a men's golf event, though she didn't manage to qualify.
For some technical reasons Babe Didrikson Zaharias was deprived of her amateur status, and she competed as a professional golfer till 1944. The victory at the U.S. Women's Amateur tournament two years later was followed by 17 consecutive wins at amateur golf championships, the British Ladies Amateur Championship, of which she was the first American holder. In 1948, Zaharias won the U.S. Women's Open, as she did two years later.
The athlete finished her amateur career in golf at this point and participated in the foundation of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, along with 12 other female golfers, including Louise Suggs and her friend Patty Berg. Zaharias became the LPGA's star competitor. A year after undergoing colon cancer surgery in 1953, she resumed her golf tournaments and triumphed at the U.S. Women's Open for the third time. The success was completed by four other victories that same year and by a couple of wins in 1955, the final ones in her athletic career.
A three-time Olympic medalist and ten-time champion of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, Babe Didrikson Zaharias is rightly considered as one of the greatest athletes in the history of sport.
A truly multifaceted sportswoman, she excelled at every sport discipline she tried herself in, most notably in track and field (world record holder) and golf. She was a six-time Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year and was also voted the 9th Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century by the periodical. ESPN once named her the 10th Greatest North American Athlete of the 20th Century. Babe Didrikson Zaharias is an inductee of the Ladies Professional Golf Association Hall of Fame (present-day part of the World Golf Hall of Fame), the National Women's Hall of Fame, and the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
Zaharias' athletic achievements weren't the only cause of high praise she received. Her lifelong challenge to stereotypes about the roles and abilities of women and her success in areas traditionally considered accessible only for men laid the basis for the respected and rewarding attitude to women who chose sport as their profession. She became a role model for active sportswomen for decades to come, proving that women are worthy competitors and winners.
There are the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum in her hometown of Beaumont, Texas, and the Babe Zaharias Golf Course in Tampa, Florida.
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1955Babe Didrikson Zaharias refused to match typical stereotypes of womanhood, that often caused a backlash from the press and popular opinion. For the most part of her life, the athlete rejected traditional "feminine" clothing, accessories and mannerisms, like girdles, bras, once stating that she wasn't "sissy." In one of her interviews, Zaharias said that the only thing that she never played with were dolls. Paul Gallico, a sportswriter, called Zaharias "muscle moll" in one of his articles, and claimed in another publication that she was neither male nor female, and wrote dismissively that she was a lesbian.
Zaharias' anti-feminine approach to her personal style was completed by her influence on the perception of women's financial dependence on men. Earning a great deal of money through endorsements, stunts, and appearances, Zaharias proved by her own example that a woman was able to remain single and support herself. Her Employer's Casualty contract alone paid her three times as much as the average American man of her time made, and six times as much as the average American woman earned.
Quotations:
"The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration."
"You can't win them all but you can try."
"Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most."
"Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised."
"Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree."
"All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else."
"Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something."
"It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there."
"I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent."
"I don't seem able to do my best unless I'm behind or in trouble."
Babe Zaharias changed the initial spelling of her family name to Didrikson in order to make people know she was of Norwegian origin, not of Swedish. The nickname "Babe" that she received after hitting five home runs in one childhood baseball game, as a reference to a famous slugger Babe Ruth, remained with her for the entire life.
Babe Zaharias was good not only at sport. Since her childhood, she demonstrated her talent for sewing and typing. Afterwards, many of clothes she wore, including golfing form, were made by her own hands. A lover of singing and playing harmonica, Zaharias recorded few tunes with Mercury Records, including "I Felt a Little Teardrop" and "Detour."
The Olympic success of Babe Didrikson Zaharias brought her international acclaim, which was not always positive, however. The women of the time weren't encouraged to take up sports, and Zaharias faced much sexism as well as claims that she might actually be a man. Many of her fellows in sport as well as people, working in other fields, considered her aggressive, overbearing, and braggart. Many also believed that she would do her best for a victory.
Physical Characteristics: Babe Didrikson Zaharias was 1.70 meters tall and weighed 57 kilograms.
Quotes from others about the person
Grantland Rice, sportswriter: "The athlete phenomenon of our time."
Grantland Rice: "She is beyond all belief until you finally see her perform. Then you finally understand that you are looking at the most flawless section of muscle harmony, of complete mental and physical coordination, the world of sport has ever seen."
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, track and field athlete: "It wasn't that she was cocky or aggressive. She was actually speaking the truth [that she was the greatest]. And some people probably didn't like it at that time because it was coming from a woman."
Paul Gallico, sportswriter: "On every count, accomplishment, temperament, personality, and color, she belongs to the ranks of those story-book champions of our age of innocence."
Joe Williams, singer: "It would be much better if she and all her ilk stayed at home, got themselves prettied up and waited for the phone to ring."
Babe Didrikson Zaharias met her husband-to-be, a professional wrestler and part-time actor George Zaharias while playing golf. The wedding ceremony was held on December 23, 1938, in St. Louis, Missouri. George served as his wife's manager. Childless, Babe and George tried to adopt children but their application was rejected by the authorities.
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Betty Dodd, byname of Elizabeth Dodd, was an American professional golf player. She was a member of the Ladies Professional Golf Association and played on its tour.
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A Greek-American, George Zaharias, byname of Theodore Vetoyanis, was a professional wrestler who also tried himself in sports promotion. He was dubbed "The Crying Greek from Cripple Creek" and "The Greek Hyena" in the 1930s. Zaharias acted in the 1952 movie Pat and Mike.
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One of the founding members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association in 1950, Berg was its first president. Her fifteen victorious major titles are still unsurpassed by any female golf player.
