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Show 6 Pensive wins the Kentuokv Derby. Broadcloth was second, ai'd Stir Up third. 13 The Preakness race was won by Pensive. 27 U. of Michigan wins western conference con-ference outdoor championship track meet. June 10 U. of Illinois wins the NatVmal Collegiate Col-legiate Athletic association track and field championships. 18 Francisco Segura of Ecuador wins the national clay court tennis title. 24 Mrs. Mildred ("Babe") Didnkson Zaharias defeats Miss Dorothy Ger maine 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 11 National league team wins the Atl-Star Atl-Star game, 7-1, in Pittsburgh. 17Willie Pep outpoints Manuel Ortiz, world bantamweight champion, in a I 10-round non-title fight in Boston. 30 Miss Ann Curtis improves the woman's wom-an's 880-yard free style swimming record with a mark of 11:08.6. August 7 Joe Baksi defeats Lee Savold In 10-round 10-round heavyweight fight. j 9 Yankee Maid wins the Hambletonian I 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 Leslie Jepsen for breaking 97 targets out of 100. 28 Byron Nelson wins the Ail-American 30 Chicago Bears professional football i club defeats the CoUege All Stars, 24-21. ! September 6 Ike Williams outpoints Sammy An- . gott, former lightweight champion. 10 Baltimore captures the International t league pennant. 20 Nashville wins the Southern league playoff, defeating Memphis. 21 St. Louis Cardinals clinch National league pennant. 29; Willie Pep retains world featherweight feather-weight boxing title by defeating Chalky White. October 1. St. Louis Browns win American league pennant. 3 San Francisco takes Pacific league series, four games to two. 9 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS WIN WORLD SERIES, FOUR GAMES TO ' TWO. 10 Most valuable baseball players, chosen by Sporting News, are Martin Mar-tin Marion, Cardinal shortstop, and Bobby Doerr, second baseman of Boston American league club. 11 Little world series of International league won by Baltimore. 14 Francisco Segura wins Pan-American tennis title for third straight time. November 10 Jimmy Daniels defeats Sammy An- gott, former lightweight boxing champion. cham-pion. 11 Army football team defeats Notre Dame, 59 to 0. 18 Representatives of National and American leagues extend Judge K. M. Landis term as baseball commissioner commis-sioner for another seven years. 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, pitch-er, named most valuable player in American league. December 2 Army defeats Navy, 23-7. Notre Dame beats Great Lakes by 28-7. Georgia Tech wrecks Georgia 44-0 to win Southeastern title. 13 Major baseball club owners vote to bar football games in ball parks until un-til the baseball season is over. 1 14 Welker Cochran wins world three cushion billiard championship. 15 Big League baseball owners divided on successor to K. M. Landis as commissioner, and on other questions. January 6 Ida M. Tarbell, 86, writer, famous for exposing trusts, in Bridgeport, Conn. , , . , 20 Walter Hackett, 67, playwright, in New York. 29 William Allen White, 75, famous editor edi-tor of Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, died in Emporia. February 25 Rear Adm. Charles C. Hartigan, 62, naval attache, winner of Congressional Congression-al medal, in Palo Alto. . 29 Rep. Thomas H. Cullen, 76 member , of house from Brooklyn, N. Y., since '1919, died in Washington, D. C March 1 Thomas E. Campbell. 66, former gov- , ernor of Arizona, died in Phoenix. 15 Joseph B. Eastman, 61, director of Office of Defense Transportation, died . in Washington, D. C. 19 William H. Thompson, former mayor of Chicago, 111., died at 74 in Chicago. 28 Stephen B. Leacock, 74, internationally internation-ally famous author and economist in Toronto, Canada. April 24 Mrs. Sarah Jane Swanson, 113, said to be the oldest American-born resident resi-dent of the United States, died in Chicago. 28 Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, who has held that cabinet post since 1940, died in Washington, D. C, at age of 70. He was a newspaper pub-. pub-. lisher in private life. May 7Vice Adm. William Rodgers, 84, commander com-mander of U. S. Adriatic fleet in World War I, died in Bethesda, Md. 12 Brig. Gen. Henry D. Styer. 81, commander com-mander of Allied troops in Siberia in World War I, died in Coronado, Calif. 16 George Ade, famous humorist, died at 78 in Kentland, Ind. June 1 Gen. O. R. Gellette, 99, Confederate brigadier general, in Shreveport, La. 6 Col. Josef Beck, prime minister of Poland during German invasion in 1939, died at 49 near Bucharest, Romania. Ro-mania. 25 Louisa E. G. Thorp, 80, internationally internation-ally known artist and art teacher, in Los Angeles. July 12 Mrs. Betty Compton Knappen, 37, former musical comedy actress, in New York. 17 Alan DineHart, 54, film and stage actor who has appeared in more than , 100 pictures, died in Hollywood, Calif. 27 Lieut. Gen. Leslie McNair killed in France. 30 Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippines, died at Saranac Lake. N. Y. He was 65. August 6 Rear Adm. Don Pardee Moon, 50, committed suicide in Washington while suffering from "combat fatigue." Effie Cherry, 65, last of the Cherry Sisters of vaudeville fame, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. September 2 George W. Norris, former senator from Nebraska, died at 83 in Mc-Cook, Mc-Cook, Neb. He served 40 years in congress, including five terms in the 8 James' A. Reed, former senator from Missouri, at 82 in Fairview, Mich. October 4 Alfred E. Smith, four times governor of New York and Democratic candidate candi-date for President In 1928, In New York city at 70. 8 Wendell L. Willkie. 52, Republican presidential candidate in 1940. and utility executive, in New York city. 22 Richard Bennett, 72. famous actor, in Los Angeles. November 8 Miss Christiana Bond, 100, author, artist and lecturer, in Baltimore. 16 Boake Carter, correspondent and radio ra-dio news commentator, 46, in Hollywood, Holly-wood, Calif. 17 Sen. Ellison D. Smith, who represented repre-sented So. Carolina In upper chamber cham-ber for 35 years (longest consecutive consecu-tive period in history) at 80, In Lynchburg, Lynch-burg, S. C. 25 Judie Kenesaw M. Landis. commissioner commis-sioner of professional baseball for 24 years, at 78. in Chicago. December 1 Albert B. Fall, secretary of Interior In Harding administration; at 83, in El Paso, Texas. 7 Maj. John Griffith, commissioner ol intercollegiate athletics of Western conference, at 67. in Chicago. 14 Lune Velez. 34, movie actress, killa self in Hollywood. Calif. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |