Great Women Rulers of Sports

12" Wooden Ruler made in U.S.A. of American-grown basswood. Nowadays, to reach the top in any sport you have to specialize. But in the past it was possible to be among the best in the world at multiple disciplines. Take for example the first entry on this ruler. Lottie Dod (1871-1960) won the Wimbledon Ladies Singles five times, won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship, played on the English field hockey team, and won a silver medal in archery at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. Her only rival in versatility is American Babe Didriksen Zaharias (1911-1956), who won golf’s women’s Grand Slam in 1950 and is still the only woman to have made the cut on the men’s PGA tour. She played basketball for the Golden Cyclones in Dallas, pitched against men in Major League Baseball exhibition games, and won two gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The Guinness Book of World Records lists them both as the most versatile female athletes of all times. M