New York, June 14.
National League pennant chase reached a feverish pitch Army Inducts Highest-Paid Baseball Player One week early last month, Hank Greenberg, Tiger out-fielder and baseball's highest-paid player, currie to bat in the second inning against the Yankees and hit his first home run of the season. In the third inning he hit another, Next morning at 6.30, along with some 300 other draftees, he reported to an induction centre in Detroit, took the oath of allegiance and became a buck private. Pictured above he gravely studies the Detroit newspapers which gave great play to every phase of his draft situation, Reporters tagged after him in the street, routed him out of bed at night.
Greenberg endured everything without losing his temper.
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