Evening star., 1932-07-17
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ YCHE STADIUM, EVANSTON,
Ill, July 16.-Mildred Didrik-
son of Dallas, Texas, who pre-
fers to be called Babe" will
lead the American Women's Olympic
track and field team, and such assist
ance as she may need against the for
eign invasion will be provided by IA
other young ladies.
The Babe, a wiry 19-year-old lass
who works as clerk in an insurance
company Office in Dallas, today did just
what she declared she would do-won
the National A. A. U. track and field
championship single handed and re-
served for herself three places on the
Olympic squad.
Incidental to her big days work in
which she raced from one event to an
other, changing shoes between times
were five first places, tie for another
and a fourth. One world record went
to her credit and she shared another.
MISS DIDRIKSON piled up 30
1vl points for the Employers Casualty
Club. The Illinois Women's Ath-
letic Club Of Chicago finished second,
of San Francisco had l3, and the
MeadoVbrook Club of Philadelphia, was
fourth. with 8.
There were other encouraging per-
formances. but the Texas girls
achievements came in such rapid sue
cession that the crowd of about 5000
spectators had little chance to pay
attention to homage to any one else.
She won her favorite event, the 30
meter hurdles. in 12.l seconds for her
first Olympic place and before the aft
ernoon was over had tied with Jean
Smiley of the Meadowbrook Club for
first place in the running high Jump at
5 feet 3 3-l6 inches, a sixteenth OF an
inch better than the listed world rec
ord. In the base ball throw, a nol-
Olympic event, she outclassed her field
with a throw OF 272 feet inches and
won the shotput with an effort of 80
feet "a inch for another world record.
CHE left the high jump to take leap
- in the broad jump. another strictly
A. A. U. event, and won with IT
feet ga inches. Then, as climax, she
flung the javelin 139 feet 8 inches to
break her own world record by nearly
feet
She will represent the United States
in the javelin, hurdles and high jump
In the Olympic games.
The 100-meter dash was won by Ethel
Harrington of the Illinois Women's
A. c., who was permitted to run in
the finals after forgetting where the
finish line was in her trial heat Her
time was 1913 seconds, and she was
followed by Wilhelmina Won Bremen,
San Francisco; Elizabeth Wilde, Kansas
City; Louise Stokes, Maiden, Mass:
Mary Carew, Medford. Mass, and Tidye
Pickett of Chicago, all of whom quail
fled for the Olympic team, the first
three in the century and the other
three for the relay.
DUTH OSBORN Of Shelbyville, Mo-,
n high school girl, won the discus
and set new world record Of 1873
feet "a inch, with Margaret Jenkins of
San Francisco and Lillian Copeland Of
Los Angeles taking the other two
Olympic positions. Miss Didrikson was
fourth.
Others who gained places in the
Olympic squad were Evelyn Hall of Chi
cago and Simone Schaller, Pasadena,
Calf, in the hurdles; Nan Gindele of
Chicago and Gloria Russell of San
Francisco, in the javelin, and Annette
Rogers Of Chicago In the high jump.
1O0-METER DASH LOlympic evenD-Won
by Ethel Harrington, Illinois Women's A. G..
second, Wilhelmina Won Bremen, Western