be's head cleared the bar before the rest of her body, a rule that no longer exists.
             A few years later, after Babe had toured with basketball and baseball teams, she was looking for another challenge. In 1933 she turned to golf, which had been one of her many sports in high school. As an amateur golfer Babe won an outstanding 13 consecutive tournaments during 1946. The next year she was the first American to win the British Amateur. Among her 55 tournament victories were three U.S. Women's Opens. For three straight years (1945-1947) she was named the female athlete of the year and turned pro in the summer of 1947 after she won 17 out 18 tournaments. Sadly, Babe learned that she had cancer in April of 1953. After trying to remove all of the cancer from Babe's body, the disease spread to her lymph nodes, which were inoperable. The pain became unbearable for Babe in 1955. She ended her golfing career and soon after, on September 27th, 1956, Babe died of the disease in Galveston, Texas at the young age of 42. Animosity and a dark rage that made losing intolerable seemed to be the fuel that stroked Babe's fire making her the first to prove a girl could be a stud athlete.
             The most influential tennis player of all time got her start in the 1960's with three singles titles at Wimbledon. Billie Jean (later known as Billie Jean King when she married Larry King) was born November 22, 1943 in Long Beach California. As a Young girl, her favorite sport was soft ball. When she took her first tennis lesson at age eleven, she immediately declared to her parents that she would one day be the best player in the world.
             Billie Jean attended California State University, Los Angeles, and in 1960, at the age of seventeen, she was already ranked among th
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