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3O-N1iss Ann Curtis improves the woman's
8S0-yard free style swimming record with
a mark of 11:08.6
August
Joe Baksi defeats Lee Savold In 10"
round heavyweight fight.
9-Yankee Maid wins the Hambletonian
harness race.
12-Miss Dorothy Germaine retains Women's
Western Amateur golf title.
20-Bob Hamilton wins the Professional
Golfers association title.
25-Trapshooting championship goes to Les.
lie Jepsen for breaking 81 targets out
of 100.
28-Byron Nelson wins the All.American golf
championship.
30-Chcago Bears professional football club
defeats the College AL Stars, 24-2l.
September
e-Ike Williams outpoints Sammy Angott.
former lightweight champion.
10-Baltimore captures the International
league pennant.
20-Nashvle wins the Southern league play.
off. defeating Memphis.
2l-St Louis Cardinals clinch National
league pennant.
29-Wilie Pep retains world featherweight
boxing title by defeating Chalky White.
October
1-St Louis Browns win American league
3-San Francisco takes Pacific league Sc.
ries, four games to two.
9-ST. LOUIS CARDINALS WIN WORLD
SERIES. FOUR GAMES TO TWO.
l0-Most valuable baseball players, chosen
by Sporting News, are Martin Marion.
Cardinal shortstop, and Bobby Doerr.
second baseman Of Boston American
league club.
Little world series of International
league won by Baltimore.
1tFrancisco segura wins Pan.American
tennis title for third straight time.
November
Johnny Daniels defeats Sammy Ansott,
former lightweight boxing champion.
11-Army football team defeats Notre Dame,
SO to 0.
26-College football champions: IVY league,
Yale; Big Ten. Ohio State; Big Six,
Oklahoma: Southwest. Texas Christian;
Southern, Duke; Pacific coast. Southern
California.
27-Hal Newhouser, Detroit Tigers pitcher.
named most valuable player in American
league.
U. of Tennessee chosen for Rose Bowl
game with s. California, Jan. l.
Other bowl opponents: Orange Bowl, Mi
ami, Georgia Tech, vs.. Tulsa; Sugar
Bowl, New Orleans. Alabama VS.. Duke;
Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas Christian VS..
Oklahoma A. and M
Paul krunske. Chicago, is new national
Individual match game champion. in
bowling.
December
2-Army defeats Navy, 237 Notre Dame
beats Great Lakes by 1911. Georgia Tech
wrecks Georgia 44.0 to win Southeast
ern title.
13-Major baseball club owners vote TO bar
football games in ball parks until the
baseball season is over
14-Welker Cochran wins world three cush.
ion billiard championship.
15-Big League baseball owners divided on
successor to K. NJ Lands as commits
sioner, and on other questions.
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January
Thirty seamen drown when navy patrol
vessel sinks in collision off Cape May,
a freight train strikes army bus at
Kingman Ariz.. killing IS aviation
cadets.
13-Twelve persons we're killed and 40 in.
jured when a passenger train crashed
into the rear of standing train near
Novice, Texas
February
11-Crash of an arlincr into the Mississippi
river carries 81 passengers and three
creWmen 10 death near Memphis Tenn.
March
12-Collision of the Liberty Ship ]. Pinkney
Henderson and tanker cost many lives.
13-An accidental explosion of a surface
mine killed ten soldiers in training ma.
neuvers at Camp Robinson, Ark.
20-A bus plunging through a guard rail OF
a bridge over the Passaic river in New
Jersey browns 10 persons.
25-An explosion in coal mine near Shin
niston, w. Va. kills l6 miners.
April
ga blast in the naval ordnance depot in
Hastings, Neb, kills eight workers.
Thirty nine merchant marine creWmen
and % naval gunners drown when Lib
erty ship struck reef offshore and broke
up on the English coast.
e-Fire. following a collision causes the
deaths of 20 crewmen and Is naval
gunners on a tanker travelling in con-
voy.
ia tornado cutting through Arkansas
takes lives of "a persons.
25-An American Liberator bombing plane
crashes in downtown Montreal Canada,
causing the deaths of IA persons.
27-Fifteen workmen die Of suffocation
while repairing naval ship in Ports.
GA navy transport plane crashes IS miles
east of Flagstaff, Ariz.. killing % per-
sons.
May
l6-Ten members Of a naval blimp crew died
when the airship hit a hangar in its
takeoff at Lakehurst. N. ].
June
25-One hundred and forty.six were killed
and 1000 injured by a tornado that swept
over parts of Pennsylvania. West Viz.
ginia and Maryland.
July
GA fire in the main tent Of the Ringing
Bros. circus in Hartford, Conn, causes
deaths of 1877 persons. mostly women
and children. Two hundred others were
injured.
SiXty-sx miners trapped in burning
coal mine near Bellaire, Ohio. had to be
abandoned to their fate, when the en-.
u diIG w dS SGdltu " CItIh the IRE.
Wreck of troop train near Jellico.
Tenn. killed 81 soldiers and civil.
ianS, and injured 100 others.
liam army bomber crashing into a trailer
camp in South Portland. Maine, took
the lives of 16 persons.
l7--EXplosion of two munition ships at
Navy loading pier in Port Chicago,
Calf, results in $40 deaths among
naval and merchant marine personnel
and property damage of 81 000O
26-An army hospital plane was reported
lost at sea between Iceland and New.
foundland with 26 aboard.
August
4-Twenty. eight persons, including "a army
pilots and mechanics are killed in
crash of transport plane near Atkinson.
Neb
Strain wreck near Stockton. Ga. kills
As and Injuries 80
9-Crash of sirliner at Antilla. Cuba. brings
death to II.
l3-Fre. sweeps, Palisades, n. j.. amuse.
ment park, killing 3 and iniuring 100.
In another fire at Coney Island Brook
Ign, N. Y. IS persons were injured,
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Roosevelt removed Atlantic Char
ter's eight principles from category
of World War II peace aims and put
them in class of long-range human
aspirations along with Ten Command
metns and Wilson's II points class,
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January

January
l-southern California U. wins annual Rose
Bowl game. defeating Washington U,
8-Jug McSpaden wins the Los Angeles
Open golf tournament with score of
2i8
l7-Byron Nelson wins San Francisco Open
golf tournament with 275,
February
12-New manager of Boston Braves, Bob
Coleman, named to succeed Casey STEM
25-Joe Baksi outpointed Tony Mauriello in
ten-round heavyweight battle.
28-Sammy Byrd wins the New Orleans Golf
tournament with 285.
March
Bob Montgomery regsns the lightweight
title, as recognized in New York. by
outponting Beau Jack.
ILL. of Michigan wins the Big Ten in
door track and field meet at Chicago.
lS-Gilbert Dodds bettered his own indoor
mile mark in Chicago, with a time of
1864
18-Alan Ford establishes new world rec.
ord for the l0o-yard free style swim at
gu. of Utah captures the N. C.AA. basket.
ball title by defeating Dartmouth. 42-40.
in New York.
April
l3-Montreal Canadiens defeat the Chicago
BlackhaWks for the fourth successive
time in the Stanley cup professional ice
hockey cha pionshp playoff
l3-Major league baseball season opens.
May
s-Charie Grimm becomes new manager
of Chicago Cubs.
erPensive wins the Kentucky Derby.
Broadcloth was second. and Stir Up
third.
l3-The Preakness race was won by Pen.
sive.
gu. of Michigan wins western conference
outdoor championship track meet.
June
10-U. of Illinois wins the National Collegiate
Athletic association track and field cham.
ponships.
l5-Francisco Segura of Ecuador wins the
national clay court tennis title.
24-Mrs. Mildred t'Babe'D Didrikson Zaha.
rias defeats Miss Dorothy Germaine TO
win the Women's Western Open golf
championship.
25--A new world record for the tWo.mile run
set by Gunder Hagg in Sweden. His
time was 8:46.4.
July
1l-Nationsl league team wins the All.Star
game, IL, in Pittsburgh.
l7-Willie Pep outponts Manuel Ortiz, world
psntamWeight champion. in l0round
non-title fight in Boston.
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January

January
6-Ida NJ Tarbell, IS, writer, famous for
exposing trusts, in Bridgeport. Conn.
20-Walter Hackett. 81. playwright, in New
York.
29-William Allen White rs, famous editor of
Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. died in EN-.
poria.
February
25-Rear Adm. Charles c. Hartigan, S. ma;
val attache, winner of Congressional
medal, in Palo Alto.
29-Rep. Thomas H. Cullen. rs, member Of
house from Brooklyn. N. Y. since 1919.
died in Washington, D. c.
March
Thomas E. Campbell, IS, former COVER
nor of Arizona. died in Phoenix.
REV. DR.. Thomas Nicholson, 80, Method
ist bishop and former president of the
AntiSaloon league. in Mount Vernon,
Iowa.
15-Joseph B. Eastman. 81, director of Office
of Defense Transportation. died in Wash
ington, D. c.
19-William H. Thompson, former mayor of
Chicago. ILL.,, died at IA in Chicago.
April
be the oldest American. born resident of
the United States. died in Chicago.
25-Coe l. Crawford, Sc, former governor
and senator of South Dakota. in Yank-
William D. Stephens, 81, former COVER
nor of California, died in Los Angeles
23-Sccretary Of Navy Franz, Knox. s'ho
has held that cabinet post since 1890
died in Washington, d. c.. a. age of
10. He was newspaper publisher IN
private life.
May
Twice Adm. William Rodgers, 81, com;
mander of U. S. Adriatic feet in World
War l, died in Bethesda, Md.
8-Brig. Gen Donald A. Dawson, chief of
provisional engineering command, Medi-
terranean area. Death reported from
12-Brig. Gen. Henry D. Styer, 81, com
mander of Allied troops in Siberia in
World War l, died in Coronado, Calf.
16-George AIDE, famous humorist. died at
73 in kentland. Ind.
June
1-Gen. O. R. Gillette. 49, Confederate
brigader general. in Shreveport, La.
Sol. Josef Beck, prime minister of Po-
land during German invasion In 1883.
died at 40 near Bucharest. Romania.
25-Louisa E. G. Thorp, 80, internationally
known artist and art teacher. in Los
Angeles.
July
9-Martin D. Morrison, 80, former congress
man from Indiana, died in Abingdon, Va.
l2-Mrs Betty Compton Knappen, 81 for
mer. musical comedy actress, in New
York
17-Alan Dinehart, 81, film and stage actor
who has appeared in more than 100 pic
lures. died in Hollywood, Calf
20-Mildred Harris, Al. movie actress and
27- Les Ang Gen Leslie McNair killed In
France.
3O-Manuel Quezon. president OF the fnlI-
iippines, died at Saranac Lake. ~ \.
He was %.
August
Al. NJ, p,-soo n,oo, en- raw,
I,.it,ed 1e e,icide in Washineton while s,f.
ter;mo frnro "con,hat fstieue
eeins 1apr s soi Iaef ~ the Cherrv Sic.
IN Ie ',a,,Sd,., Iii fsp,e in Sed.r Ran.
a. fn,,. ~ 'N''~' "
io'' .o"a
Septen,her
Isabel Trying, 73, whose stage career
7-George W. Norris; former senator senator from Mon
he served 90 Years in C congress, includ
Ing Ave terms In the senate.
8-S si1s a. 90 IN E,irview Mich 'io'''
a' "
October
ALFRED E; smitn; -FOUR unles soNernor OF
New YORK and Democrauc candidale LOT
President IN 1919 IN New YORK cry az ~;
8-Wenden l.. Wilikie, %, fepuolcan
presidential candidate IN 1910, and
utility executive; IN New f eo GUY.
4s-nep, nd''lptSot r. S.roiins d;etrict for 70
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January

3-Twenty-eight men and two women are
indicted on sedition charges.
l0-Congress reconvenes.
l1-Roosevelt asks for National Service act.
ia budget of sos. 1859 ,O0O. 900 is Presidents
estimate of 1914 needs
20-Army allows induction Of loyal Japanese.
Americans.
26-Muster.out- pay bill passed. providing
for a maximum of $500.
29-Worlds most powerful batteship, the
45,000.ton Missouri. is launched
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SOUTHERN FRANCE

4-Governors' conference ends, after issu-
ing statement defining limits of state
and federal powers.
6-Phladephia street cars and busses op-
crate under army control.
Newly developed calculating machine
that will solve problems in higher mathe-
mates is announced by Harvard uni
versity.
l2-President returns from visit to Hawaii
and Alaska.
14-Strike of midwestern truck drivers ends.
following government seizure OF lines.
16-Army ends censorship of soldiers read
ing matter.
23-U. S. department of justice files anti.
trust suit in Lincoln Neb., against AZ
western railroads.
25-Secretary OF State Hull and John F.
Dulles. representing Dewey. discuss for
eign policy.
Senate passes reconverslon bill TO take
care Of government surplus sales.
29-Republlcan campaign opens with radio
speeches by Governors Warren Of Cali
fornia. Green of Illinois. and Baldwin
OF Connecticut
30-Navy reports the construction of $1,000
ships of all types since September l.
1898
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December

1-Strikes in Detroit and Chicago delay
production of Bog bombers.
2-Government halts reconversion plans in
125 cities until munition production meets
schedule.
Rear.Adm. Husband Kimmel and Mai
Gen Walter Short, Pearl Harbor COM
manders will not be court-martialed,
war and navy boards rule.
4-Draft of agreement of International Civil
Aviation conference is completed, and
ready for signatures of delegates.
7-Sedition trial of 26 defendants ends in
mistrial.
Prison revolt of 25 Atlanta convicts
ended.
1o-'Work or fght'' order issued by War
Mobilization Director Byrnes, threaten.
ing men in age 26.37 bracket with in.
duction who are not in war jobs.
11-Nobel prizes awarded to five Americans
l3-War prisoners at Fort Sheridan, Ill, go
on sit-down strike; 1900 put on bread
and water.
Introduction quotas on machine guns
reduced to release workers for more
critical items.
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February

Tax bill sent TO White House. II pro.
vides for S2,3l5, 200 900 of additional reve.
nue..
l6-War Relocation authority tWRA) trans.
ferred 10 department of interior.
l7-Army announces more than 100000 men
have been returned from the Pacific
fronts on furloughs. besides the sick and
wounded, and that the rotation furlough
plan is in full swing.
18-Selective service orders farm workers
reclassitied.
22-TaX bill is vetoed as wholly made.
quate."
2i-Congrcss overridcs veto on tax bill Sen.
Alben Barley, Democratic majority
leader who resigned in fareup on veto,
is renamed.
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November

6-Dept. of Agriculture announces decline
in farm population in last four years
amounting to 4 743, 900.
Nationwide elections held. President
Roosevelt reelected by majority of 3.000-
600 votes. or SO per cent of popular vote
winning So states and 432 electoral votes
Twenty Democrats and 10 Republicans
gain senate seats. Democrats elect 242
representatives. and Republicans 1875.
Eighteen Republican and l3 Democratic
governors elected.
14-Congress meets. Supplementary appro-
prations main business.
Especial committee on wartime living
costs reports to President that rise is 90
per cent over January l, l94l, level.
20-Sixth War loan drive opens.
27-Strike on two electric railroads serving
Chicago area ends after II days.
Edward Stettinius appointed secretary of
state to succeed Cordeu Hull.
30-Assistant attorney.general Norman Lit.
tell dismissed by President
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September

6-Army announces rehabilitation plans.
More than a million men will be dis
charged when Germany is defeated.
Seventeen processed foods are removed
from ration list.
ll-Roosevelt meets Churchill in Quebec for
military discussions.
15-Nneteen coal mines are seized on the
Presidents orders.
2l-Congress recesses until November IA.
28-Ration controls removed from all farm
machinery except corn pickers.
30-Birth rate for 1943 increased, census
bureau says.
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THE BASIS OF COURAGE FOR
THE FUTURE

LESSON TEXT-Matthew 16:13-20; II Pc.
ter 3:14-18; l John BIB
GOLDEN TEXT-Wherefore, my beloved
brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable. al.
ways Astounding in the work of the Lord,
forasmuch as we know that your labor is
not vain in the Lord Corinthians Is: So.
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October

5-Strike of Detroit maintenance workers,
affecting SO war plants and $4,000 work.
ers, ends.
6-Super. powered X-ray announced that will
photograph through foot of steel
7-Peace conference at Duinbarton Oaks.
N. H., ends sessions A general frame:
work for peace and security agreed
upon, it is announced.
l3-War Production board announces that
it has permitted LILO manufacturers to
resume civilian production.
23-De Gaulle recognized as head of French
Provisional government by the U. S. and
other United Nations
25-U. s. and other United Nations resume
diplomatic relations with Italy.
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January
February

1-ChineSe advance in northern Burma.
3-Marines capture Namur and other is.
lands in the Marshalls.
gu. S: army takes Kwajalein atoll in
Marshals.
16-Heaviest bomb load vet dropped hurled
on Berlin by British bombers.
17-U. S. naval task force attacks Truk,
main Jap base in south Pacific.
19-Japanese cabinet reorganized. following
attack on Truk.
23-U. S. naval task force strikes at Mari
anas islands.
PAIL of western New Britain passes to
American control.
29-Stalin offers peace terms to Finland.
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March,

8-Record raid on Berlin made by 1000
planes.
15-Russian army crosses Bug river.
19-Advancng Russians enter Bessarabia.
26-Russians reach Romanian border
30-Paau islands. LOCO miles south Of ia.
pan. attacked by u S. navy.
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Pulitzer prize for novels awarded TO Mar
tin Flavin for Journey in the Dark"
Musical comedy Oklahoma" won spe.
cial award for authors.
3-Most meats are removed from ration.
ing. Steaks and beef roasts are prnci-
pal exceptions.
11-New draft regulations defer most men
over &c Those under % arc scheduled
for early induction. Men 26-29 in war.
supporting industries gain at least six
months deferment, and those 80 and
over an indefinite stay.
15-Senate voted to delay action on poll
tax bill.
British delegation arrives for talks on
postwar security.
2o-Communist party votes to dsband as
political party. but to continue as an
association
22-Supreme court decision uphods validity
of OPA suspension orders.
31-Synthetic sugar is produced at the Uni.
versty of California. Process is too eX.
pensive to be practical at present.
Governors conference adopts resolution
calling for restoration of state powers
yielded TO federal government when war
emergency ends.
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l-secretary of State Hull pledges that in
the postwar world organization, small
nations will be kept on an equality with
large in every practicable way.
War Manpower commission announces
that it viii take over absolute control
OF all male workers over II TO check
turnover in essential industries"
8-TWenty.one briEadier generals promot
ed to major generals and SO coIonels TO
&C. I. Bill of Rights" clears congress
l3-Democrats lose majority in the house
with the election of Rolla McMillen,
10Th Illinois.
2l-senate passes army appropriation bill
2s-Republican convention dominates Thorn.
as f. Dewey, governor of New York,
for President and John W. Bricker, gov
ernor of Ohio, as vice president.
ga serum to prevent measles has been
developed and will be made available
soon, the Red Cross reveals
July
1Treasury reveals that war costs for As
cal year total 90 billion dollars.
1.-The Grammar F.7-F. new tWo.motored
naval fighting plane. is tested. and is
called superior to the Hellcat
8-Roosevelts conversations with Gen.
Charles DeGagle o: F sfs1;t end Pc :
9-Vice President Wallace returns from Chi.
ma. He predicts an era Of peace in the
Pacific. with Russia and China as lead.
CrS.
ll-President Roosevelt says that he will
run again If nominated"
l3-Eric Johnston, president of U. S. Cham.
Der of Commerce. returns from Russia
Duke and duchess of Windsor arrive in
New York from the Bahamas.
l4-Army reveals that there are now 1876 GAL
war prisoners in the o. S. las 1Ol be.
ing German and 80 253 Italian.
2U-Democratic convention in Chicago nomi.
mates Roosevelt for fourth term
2l-Sen. Harry Truman tMo) is nominated
for Democratic vice presidential candi.
daCN.
3O-Army says that malaria has been re.
duced to tWo.thirds of early war rate
August
2--Stltke of Philadelphia transit workers
is referred to President.
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August

1-Resistance in Tinian island in Marshalls
ends.
2-Turkey breaks diplomatic relations with
Germany.
10-Guam conquered, giving U. S control Of
all important islands Of Marshas.
ia second Allied invasion force lands on
southern French coast between Mar.
Seille and Nice.
l9-U. S. tank units reach suburbs of Paris.
20-Southern France invasion force enters
Toulon.
3l-Romanian capital. Bucharest. is entered
by Russians.
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December

ALBERT B Fall. secretary of interior In
Harding administration: at 49, in FL
Paso. Texas
3-Dr David KinleY. 80, president of U. OF
Illinois 1920 to 1920, in Champaign, Ill
Federal Judge Arthur J. futile, rs, in
Detroit, Mich. Most outstanding case
was treason trial of Max Stephan.
Mai. John Griffith, commissioner of in.
tercollegiate athletics OF Western confer
ence, at 81 in Chicago.
l4-Iupe Velez "a, movie actress. kills
self in Hollywood, Calf.
Released by Western Newspaper Union
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2--Strtke of Philadelphia transit workers
is referred to President.
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March

Give veterans organizations combine in
asking for a bonus UP to $4,000 for all
members of the armed forces.
4-Draft deferments for men 10 TO 20 in
essential industry ended except for
key men,"
15-"Soider vote" bill providing for short
federal ballots is passed and sent to
President
21-State department announces that it will
have no dealings with the Vichy French
government
25-Three men and two women are convict
ed as spies, and sentenced TO long terms.
April
Army reports that ,058 900 enlisted men
have been discharged between Deem
Der !, I94l, and January 81, 1874.
4-House committee reveals that the fed
eral government now owns One-fifth of
the land area of continental United
States
5-Wendel Willkie WithdraWs as a Repub-
lican presidential candidate after defeat
in Wisconsin.
12-Attorney General Bddle reopens investi-
cation of Political Action committee of
CLIO.
IA new chemical treatment that will give
wood any degree of hardness desired, is
announced.
26-Federal troops take possession of the
Chicago plant of Montgomery Ward Co.
by order of FDR when the company re.
fused to obey his order to recognize a
CLIO union.
29-Gen. Douglas Macarthur announces that
he will not accept nomination for Presi-
dent
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November

8-Mss Christiana Bond, 100 author art
list and lecturer. in Baltimore.
9-Jane Grey, Sc, well-knoWn actress, In
New York city.
12-Edgar s. Kelley, 81, composer of classi.
cal music, in New York city.
l6-Boake Carter. cores pondent and radio
news commentator, As. in Hollywood
Calf.
l7-Sen. Ellison D. Smith, who represented
So. Carolina in upper chamber for. 80
wears longest consecutive period in his
tory) at 30, in Lynchburg, S. c.
25-Judge Kenesaw NJ. Lands. commissioner
of professional baseball for "a years. at
10, in Chicago