Month of Decision

Happy Chandler is sure that fans everywhere want him to carry on in his $65,000-a-year job as baseball commissioner. Last week he made a major speech in his campaign for reelection. At a dinner of the New York Baseball Writers' Association, attended by most of the club owners who oppose him, Happy pleaded for unity under Chandler leadership. Said he: "The American fan will have his way. We must not let him down."

The club owners acted as if they had not heard a word. They set March as the month of decision, made a date to meet in Florida to pick a commissioner. Top name in the scuttlebutt last week: Governor Frank J. Lausche of Ohio, a Democrat who bitterly offended party regulars by conceding, before the last elections, that Bob Taft has his good points. Among other things, Lausche was once (1917) a third baseman for Duluth in the Northern League.

On the other hand, Happy Chandler still insisted that the election might light on Happy Chandler.

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