The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 27, 1933, Page 6

i ‘ “Day” engagement will be a special * Schwartz, Mike Jacobs and the reserve ; THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, MAY-27,-1938 - BIWARGK, BEULAH T0 CROSS BATS IN COLORFUL CONTEST Band Will Be on Hand to Enter- tain Spectators and Spur Athletes on STRUGGLE WILL BEGIN AT 3) Capital City Team and Fort Lincoln Club Will Clash Here Memorial Day Bismarck baseball fans will turn out Sunday afternoon for the first home game of the local nine this season— and a gala occasion it will be. American Legionnaires, sponsor of the Capital City club, have arranged special features in connection with the opening game, which will find two of} the Missouri Slope’s greatest teams— Beulah and Bismarck—battling each other, On hand for the colorful “Booster! band to entertain the spectators and spur the athletes on to greater en- deavor. Game Begins at 3 The game will be staged at the city) baseball park, just across the North-; ern Pacific tracks from the Interna- tional Harvester company plant. The} chief umpire will toss a brand new horsehide out to the pitchers’ box at 3 o'clock and hostilities will begin im- mediately thereafter. In the first engagement between the ‘two teams at Beulah last Sunday, the Miners eked out a 3 to 0 decision in a) contest in which each team was al- lowed but three hits. The Miners took advantage of breaks and Bis- marck errors to cop. But the Capital City lads look for ‘vengeance in the contest here. Manager Neil O. Churchill has not @nnounced the starting Bismarck lineup yet, but it is certain that Sam Hyland will catch, Long John Sage- horn, the siege gun, will be at first, Sebastian Goetz, neat fielder, at sec- ond, Bob McCarney at shortstop and Mike Goetz at third. George Heldt To Play Churchill expects 10 use George ‘Heidt of Mandan and Roy D. McLean in the outfield, along with Gus pitchers. ‘The box choice will be Smiley Simle, Honey Boy Becker or Lefty Klein. Manager Roy Seibert of Beulah is expected to start F. Stewart or Harold} Viestenz in the box. The remainder of the Miners’ lineup will include Kerbs, Webber and Martin in the out- field, J. Stewart at third, Lawrence at short, Thronson at second, Heihn or Carmichael at first and the heavy- hitting Wessels behind the bat. Next Tuesday the Bismarck club); will clash with the classy Fort Lin- coln nine in a Memorial Day game at} the city baseball park. That game will begin at 2:30 o'clock. “Stage Set for Opening Baseball Game of Season Here Sunday NODAKS COP NORTH CENTRAL TRACK AND FIELD HONORS OUR BOARDING HOUSE IT RUNS FINE AT SPELIS, AN DEN \T SPUTS AN FOLDS UP-JES LAK A MULE, BUT AHS GETTIN’ TO KNOW WHEN (1S GOIN’ TO ACT SKITTY, AN’ AH LEAVE. \T ALONE DEN IS WHEN AW PAINTS \T—SORT OB IN BETWEEN WHIMS/ ITS GONNA BE ORANGE AN RED WHEN AWM FROO WITH IT, AN’ MAXBE, DIS SUMMAH, ME AN TH MISSUS WILL TAKE A TOUR TRIP IF AH CAN BE SURE WHICH IT WILL DO-GIT US THERE, OR GIT US BACK / ER-UM=I WILL * NEED YOU A LOT THIS SUMMER, FOR CHAUFFEURING JOBS——TLL “PAY ae IN BIGHT EVENTS 10 GETS8-POINT TOTAL Big Ted Meinhover of Bismarck Equals Shot Put Record He Made in 1932 | JACKRABBITS PLACE SECOND Stiff North Wind and Heavy Track Permit Only One TAKE FIRST PLACES |Bismarck’s First Golf Tournament Of Season Is Planned Memorial Day BOSTON RED SOX CONTINUE TO ANNOY BY DEFEATING INDIANS Cellar Team, With Even Break In Close Contests, Would Be at Helm By HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR. (Associated Press Sports Writer) It has been observed more than once the’ Boston Red Sox have been making themselves exceedingly anoy- ing to loftier teams of the American League. So far Boston has lost 10 games by AFRAID SASON WONT BE Restauranteurs and Highwaymen Use Different Plans for Victory Record Performance one-run margins and has won only four that way. If those 10 were shift- ed to the victory column, the Red Sox caped going extra innings when Chick Hafey came up in the last half of the ninth and smacked Van Mungo’s sec- ond pitch out of the park to give the Reds their third straight victory, 3-2, Scores by innings: NATIONAL lorie Cubs Win in 1 (0 innings) Betts and Hargrave; Hartnett, 3 Reds Cop in Ninth yn e+000 010 be eer Grand Forks, N. D., May 27.—(®)— Winning firsts in eight events and ‘counting in all others except the pole vault and high jump, University of North Dakota’s powerful aggregation swept to its first North Central Con- ference track and field championship here Friday with a total of 58 points. South Dakota State, defending champion, placed second with 35% points, while University of South Da- kota was third with 30%. North Da- kota Aggies had 11%, and Morning- side college, fifth member of the loop. scratched its entry. Booked as a three-cornered battle between the Sioux, Jackrabbits and Coyotes, with South Dakota State a dangerous contender, North Dakota jumped into a lead with the first event of the afternoon when Roy Pearson won the mile and steadily in- creased the margin as the meet progressed. One Record Broken Only one record was broken. Law- rence Hanson of University of South Dakota hung up a new mark in the pole vault when he leaped 12 feet 9 ‘ ' i ‘i 3 2 2 1:6. Patt . It 3000 (Kitchen Artists Hit Heavily|B 30 8 Ol Red 31 0 Blinches to better the one set by Joe While State Engineers Field H : : is Hample, cf .. . 1000 ered of the Bison at 12 feet 2% aa ches. Brilliantl aataeey tals ..:...sseeee+-3L 7 8 3! Ted Meinhover, big Sloux weight uJ to Ae score By innings S711 210 0-8 6 5|tosser, equalled the record he made ysis Righway i ept. <2 011-010 4—7 8 3] last year in the shot put with a heave STANDINGS ——— jummary: stolen bases, Nei-|of 45 feet 6 inches. Joe Plihal of W.L. Pet. |g, Total : 5 5 (6) bauer; “sacrifices, Hummels” page South Dakota State tied the low hur- weet 10} » C. ict uble 17 secont bodied way eee tel amen, (=: aes, and 42 3 0|base hits, F. Hummel, Falconer,| vented the record-breaking per= weet Shop . 1 0 1.009 [5 Martin, rf 4 3 2 0| Zahn, Maddock; three base hits, Mc- Ae aisared sbATarorthie tase Chameibubee aes Soa. awe lar een 14330 fining; hits off Mi Mumamel 8 norman cererce Individual Siar : le Af a . . . 4 . = Company a art 01 oo EF. iuanney, “ia 4 1 1 0|nings; struck out by M. Hummel 5;] Ralph Pierce, University of North a ‘ N. 23°21 1 01D Neibauer 8; bases on balls off! Dakota sprinter, won individual hon- Members of the Sweet Shop team| TL. eat mae Does Si um-Jors with 13 points. He was first in i 5 L. Schneider, 13100 —_— the 100 and 220-yard dashes and sec- Friday night showed a world of bat-|- Schneider, p’. Jee stg od) ond in the javelin throw. Meinhover ting punch in defeating the Classic eae . .38.19 20 1 American Girl and of the Sioux, with firsts in the shot Barber Shop 19 to 5 in a city dia- geen py ia . ‘002 1020-5 5 6 and discus, baer ee vetis mela y sales firsts in the mile and two-mile, an mondball league contest, while the! Sweet Shop .... 540 073 x—19 20 1 Partner Ad Plihal of South Dakota State’ with state highway department entrant, in} Summary: ‘stolen bases, Tracy 2: vance firsts in the 440 and low hurdles tied defeating the O. H. Will and Com-| sacrifices, F. Lee, D. Hugelman; home for second honors with 10 points each. pany A club 7 to 6, displayed a neat {defensive game. The highwaymen scored. four runs in the last half of the seventh to win the one-run decision. Paul Neibauer allowed the seedmen but six hits while Matt Hummel granted the en- gineers eight. The planters erred five times, the highwaymen thrice. C. McCorrie took hitting honors of the evening, swatting two home runs and a triple, scoring three runs and ‘Agre, Martin: hits off L, Benser; “aouble Plays, Dohn to aq Nelson to. Tracy; ed base hits, E. z H. Hugelman, A. ae, 5 Lee; three base hits, Hugelman 2. Schneider 5 in’? innings: off P. Nelson 6 in 1 1-3 eae off D. Hugelman 11 in 3 2-3 innings; off Berger 3 in 1 in- ping: struck out Ac L. Schneider 5; Nelson 0; by Hugelman 1; by Berger 0; bases on balls off L. Behinel der 4; off Nelson 0; off pucelinaD 1; off Berger 0; umpire, George Hi In Doubles Pla Palmer, South Dakota State sprint- er, failed to place in the 220-yard dash _—_— ree he pulled up lame 20 yards from e tape. He was well up with the Frank Shields, Helen Jacobs Jeaders ey the patie Frits rae 2 North Dakota sprinter, let and Dorothy Andrus Burke surprise by running Pierce to bee fin- in Si ish after failing to place in the Remain in Singles pavaideah. University of North Dakota made Auteuil, France, May 27.()—|e clean sweep of the broad jump when Elizabeth Ryan was America’s sole}Bacon, Hill and Iverson took all three | batting in two others. . H. Will (6) representative in the doubles divisions places in the order named. | "The Classic Barber Shop used three| J. 5; ey and it. APP Glot the French hard court tennis hurlers in an attempt to stop the|M. Winner, 3rd 3rd 1 1 0|championships Saturday but Frank chefs’ artillery. F. Lee, E. Agre, H.} F. name 1 1 0jShields, Helen Jacobs and Dorothy Hugelman and A. Schneider each Pe ie : i Andrus Burke were prepared to carry i he | secured three hits in four trips. R.| 7, 11 3/% in singles. | Mason was the only barber to get} Dr, 1 1 0|,, Miss Ryan still was in the running more than one hit. H. 1 1 | both for the women’s and mixed dou- ‘an in S The chefs touched R. Nelson, D.|C. 0 © 1/bles crowns. She and Mme. Rene | Hugelman and C. Berger for a total a x a a 9 see ie ee celenied seen ‘of 20 hits, including five nome runs, of elgium an largare' six triples and three doubles. | 2” 0 0 0) Scriven of England, 7-5, 6-2, Friday AMERICANILEAGUE | pot | Schneider allowed the tonsorial artists 6 6 6 | (0 qualify for the women’s finals Sat-| new York -. 12 625 ENJAMIN FRANKLIN be- | but five bingles and was given al- urday against the strong French com-| Was! 16 579 came the most famous | Most errorless support. c. 3 3 {bination of Colette Rosambert and | Chic ies printer of all time. The Gu- Teams will be idle until next Wed-| F. . 0 1 ©|Mme. Henrotin. In the quarter-finals] Phil Skis . ar = ftenberg Bible was printed be- | nesday. a eaee, 0 1 0|{of mixed doubles, Miss Ryan and Nat| Cleveland .... 18 20 429 tween 1450 and 1455. ROB. Friday night's box scores: *. Flan 7 : A Farquharson of South Africa were) 3° Tous 14 24 (368 ERT HOE invented the modern Classic Barbers (5) RBRHE L Be 1 0 6| Pitted against Mme. Henrotin and) Bo. 12 21 [364 rotary printing press. H, Herschleb, rf 110 2H 1 1 9|Jean Borotra. D. Tracy, Ist . 3.0 1 O] Ww. 1 1 0] Miss Jacobs, American singles NATIONAL LEAGUE champion, opened her bid for the] Pittsburgh . 12.647 [_our our way By Williams ||® senna senucne Sure aia, gue -0 conquest of Jacqueline urnier. “ BAAS: Shields’ first-round opponent. in| Cincinnati 1. men’s singles was to be Emile Thurny- ago 21 447 ssen. The tall New Yorker and his|prooklyn. 18 438 THINGS must 1S THAT AN OFFICE MEN, AN! TH German partner, Daniel Prenn, were| Philadelphia 24 «351 BE STARTIN' To Picw UP | A LTTLE. ITS AROUND TH SHOP THAT THER GOIN’ To MAKE A COUPLE OF NEW FOREMEN. inn a Y G 50? 1TS TH FIRST \\ I HEARO Boy HEARS MORE ABOUT | -Tanes iv WHATS GoIN' \ . ON INSIDE TH! OFFICE, WHEN HES OUTSIDE OF TH OFFICE. OFFICE BOY FROM TH’ OVLTSIDE IN, AN’ THEN TH OFFICE the victims of a mild upset in the men’s doubles quarter-finals Friday. AMERICAN ASSQCIATION and Quist were to meet Borotra and gecienspolls Jacques Brugnon in one semi-finals Knows Just WHAT THEYRE Don’, oF WHAT THEY OING UP! TRwiuams © 1993 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. REA.U.S.PAT.OFF. 5-i Toledo 5 match. The other involved Henri Loniseiiis” . Cochet and Andre Merlin and the| Kansas Ci . British stars, Fred Perry and G. P. Hughes. Americans in Easy the Associated Press) ton pitching for home run, double Washington, “May 27.— (®) —The} and single. United States team went after two] Schoolboy Rowe, Tigers—Held Ath- Yesterday’s Stars | —— By Win Over er Argentina ab eatin cube Raters Boe would be in first place with 22 tri- umphs and 11 defeats and the current | ang Pace-setters, the New York Yankees, would be second after the necessary deductions, 3% games behind. The Red Sox threatened again to move out of their cellar berth Friday as they nosed out the Cleveland In- dians 6 to 5. The Chicago White Sox had a sim- ilar experience before they pulled out an 8 to 6 triumph over the Yankees. Washington registered a 5-2 victory over the St. Louis Browns in a game that was cut short in the seventh by rain. The Athletics, after seven straight victories, found Detroit and ‘Schoolboy Rowe a bit too tough and went down 10-1. Pirate Lead Reduced Pittsburgh's lead in the National League also was reduced as the New York Giants won the opening Leet between the leading teams, 6-5, on Gus Mancuso’s eighth-inning homer. Chicago's Cubs continued their up- ward progress by turning back the Boston Braves 4 to 3 in 10 innings af- ter Babé Herman's four-bagger had ‘knotted the count in the seventh. The St. Louis Cardinals had an even long- er struggle, finally beating the Phil- lies in the 14th when Dizzy Dean scored on Ernie Orsatti’s single to win his own game, 5-4. Brookl; Cincinnati ..... 200 000 001—3 Clark, Mungo and Lopez; Joh! Giants Wallop Pirates New York . Pittsburgh 1 Fitzsimmons, Bell and Mancuso; Meine, Harris, poll co Padden. Cards Win in nx Philadelphis Seen Tece wana eab aa: 1 Eee ae (01 001 000 000 11—5 131 Elliott, Pearce, Liska and Davis, Todd; Dean and Wils ‘Wilson. AMERICAN L LEAGUE Chisox Defeat Yankees HE . 4 001 sus 15 3 pad Sew Cork Be one ae ak Detroit . au and Bayeaths Walnere, Petersen and scciene ot Mad; Bosox Down Clevelan R x z Cleveland . ~ 000 010 022—5 3 Boston ... 002 boa 20x—6 3 1 Brown, Connally, Bean and Spencer; H. Johnson, Pipgras anc Gale R. Ferrell. ‘Senators Trim ee pees . 000 000 2—2 4 1 + 400 001 0-5 11 1 Knott and Biseholder® ray, Cincinnati’ and Brooklyn barely es- Crouch; Whitehill and Sewell. NO-HIT PITCHER MAKES GOOD BY WINNING 11-INNING GAME Trojans Replace | Stanford Outfit As Meet Favorite Floyd Newkirk of St. Paul Hurls Team to Victory Over Brewers, 4-3 Chicago, May 27.—(#)—Floyd New- kirk, the American Association's latest Southern Californians Quality 14, Only One Behind Car- dinals, Friday Cambridge, Mass. May 27.—(P)}— Reversing previous speculation and exceeding even their own most opti- mistic expectations, Southern Cali- fornia’s Trojans Saturday were favor- ites to beat off Stanford’s strong challenge and win the intercollegiate AAAA. track and field champion- ships for the fourth successive year. Since 1925, Southern California has won the classic eastern meet five| 9" times and been “out of the money” only twice. This year, having lost such champions as Frank Wykoff, and Dick Barber, among other veterans, the Trojans were not figured to have the scoring strength of their arch- rival, Stanford. Their coach, Dean Cromwell, ad- mitted it but his pupils sang a dif- ferent tune in Friday's preliminaries. Stanford outscored U. 8. C. 15 to 14 in the qualifying trials, chiefly by a concentration of power in the weight events, but the Trojans gave a much better-balanced and more impressive all-around performance. The “dope sheets” pointed to U. 8. C. scoring between 50 and 55 points, with Stanford lucky to tally 45. Yale, al- though qualifying only five men Fri- day, to New York University’s seven, They were eliminated by the young| Columbus a ay appeared of the eastern contin- Australians, Vivian McGrath and Ad-|St, Paul 16 543 8eNt and Certain to annex third place. rian Quist, 8-6, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, McGrath | 5 pos 14 55 Saturday’s finals were scheduled to 133, start at noon (E. 8. T.) with the pole Hi ieee | Nadine O’Leary Will Graduate Ten Bismarck high school athletes are members of the graduating class this year. "\ ASSES ee eee | 10 Demons and | no-hit game hurler, has earned him- self a starting job with St. Paul. If the no-hit no-run+ masterpiece against Kansas City last Monday didn't cinch a job for him, an 11-in- ning triumph over Milwaukee Friday did. He gave the Brewers only seven hits in the -11 rounds, and his mates finally got to Americus Polli for a 4 to 3 decision. Nick Allen assumed charge of Kan- sas City’s fortunes Friday and saw his charges take a 9-to-3 beating from Minneapolis. The Toledo-Indianapolis, and Co- lumbus-Louisville games were rained out. Scores by innings: Newkirk Wins in sass Milwaukee .. 200 010 000 00—3 6 Paul .... 100 200 000 01-4 11 0 (11 innings) Polli and Young; Newkirk and Fenner. * Millers Wallop meee on E 200 000 oo 60 223 020 00x—9 13 0 Blackwell, Browning, Wood and|7 Brenzel; Benton and Griffin. Louisville-Columbus, rain. Toledo-Indianapolis, rain. | Moorhead-Fargo | Appears Jinxed St. Paul, May 27.—(?)—Man- ager Al Theis and his Moorhead- Fargo players-of the Northern Baseball league are wondering just what kind of a jinx is fol- lowing them. They have lost 11 straight games and tied one, some just by! the breaks of the game. And Friday's tilt with the league-leading Super- jor Blues capped them all. Tony Thissen twirled ‘a three- hit game for the twins but lost the decision, 2 to 0, the Badgers scoring a pair of home runs by Morris Arnovich and Eli Enger in the first inning. . After that Thissen permitted only one hit but his team-mates could not bunch their five singles off Westerman. East Grand Forks, too, was out- more singles victories over Argentina's] letics to six hits; fanned seven. In addition, Miss} nit g to 4, but came through with tennis stars Saturday to make a clean Ernie Orsatti, O’Leary, state) s 3 to 2 triumph over Brainerd. sweep of the already won American: Cardinals—singled women’s golf) ‘The third game, between Winni- Zone Davis cup finals. in 14th to drive in champion for the! peg and Eau Claire was postponed | A decisive 6-1, 6-4, 6-1, victory by run that beat last three years.! because of wet grounds.: It was Johnny Van Ryn and George Loti Phillies 5-4. will graduate also.| the seventh game to be postponed lover Adriano Zappa and Adelmar George Pipgras, Two of the ath-| since the schedule started carly Echeverria in Friday's doubles had Red _Sox—Reliev- letes won letters) this month clinched the five-match series at three-love for the Americans, 50 Sai urday’s singles, Ellsworth Vines again- st Hector Cattaruzza and Wilmer Al- Jeon facing Zappa, were mere exhib- ed Henry Johnson in ninth and stop- ped Cleveland rally. Chick Hafey, Reds — Clouted Paul Gregory, cup officials will White Sox—Lim- perfect plans for campaign. Vines and Keith Gledhill, ited American doubles champions, will sail} six hits in 71-3 innings; hit double dune 10 for play at the Queens Club|and two singles. in England and the Wimbledon cham- pignships, but the rest of the team|against Pirates including homer that homer in ninth to) beat Yankees to in three sports, football, basketball and track. They are Gus Schlick- enmayer and Jack Andrews, Lester D. will leave around July 1, going direct-| won game. ly to Paris to meet the Davis Cup} Earl Whitehill, European well, the French champions. game. BASEBAL BISMARCK vs. BEULAH > Sunday May 28, 3 P.M, Bismarck Baseball Park one sport, basketball, while Marvin O. Senators — Gave| Welliver, captain of this year’s track zone winners and, if all goes| Browns only four hits in seven-inning/and field team, concentranted in this Four others who played football are Burton, Richard C, Hugelman and Kenneth Gus Mancuso—Made three hits|W. Josiiz, John W. Olgeirson participated in ace (Lefty) Gwynne, ‘Toronto, outpointed Stanley Katzman, Buffalo, (6). Detroit—Ernie Mauer, Detroit, and Midget Wolgast, Philadelphia, drew, <0). Chicago—Willie Oster, Boston, Langford, York, outpointed Puggy Weinert, Chicago, (8). Every Fourth Finisher in 18+ Hole Medal Play Sweep- stakes to Get Prize Bismarck’s first golf tournament ‘this season will be conaucted over the courts of the Bismarck Country Club Memorial Day, it was announced Sat- urday by Paul T. Cook, member of the club’s tournament committee. It will be an 18-hole medal score Sweepstakes tournament, Cook said, with everyone interested invited to participate. ‘A small entry fee will be assessed Participants to defray costs of inex- pensive prizes. Those who finish first, fourth, eighth, 12th, and every fourth finisher thereafter, based on medal scores for the 18 holes, will receive the prizes, \Cook said. Entrants may begin playing any time during the day, just so they complete their 18 holes of play early 2/in the evening. They must turn in their cards to Tom O'Leary, profes- sional, who also will be in charge of registration for the affair. This will be the first in what the tournament committee hopes will be @ series of weekly tournaments of va- rious descriptions. Other members of the committee are E. E. LaFrance and E. W. Leonard. Association Swat Stars Riding High 5/Two Leaders Hit at Better Than .400 Clip; Red Bird Leads Pitchers Chicago, May 27.—(#)—Perhaps the boys are hitting over their heads, but the latest available figures reveal that it takes an average of .400 or better to lead the American association in batting. Ray Radcliff, who joined St. Paul after the season started, was the new leader with a mark of .433, accord- ing to averages which included games up to Thursday’s night tilt at Indian- apolis. After losing 53 points a week ago, Frank Sigafoos, Indianapolis infield- er, picked up a little and went into second place with .403. Irv Jeffries of St. Paul was the pace setter in hits, with 59. Paul Dean of Columbus, was credit- ed with two pitching victories dur- ing the week, and led the league with five straight. Minneapolis, gaining only one point, replaced Toledo as the team batting leader. The Mud Hens lost 11 points, bringing their collective mark down to .295, while the Millers boosted theirs to .299, St. Paul continued to lead in fielding, with 976 and in double plays with 37. st | Major Leaders | —_—__________4 (By the Associated Press) NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting—Martin, Cardinals, .360; Frederick, Dodgers, .362. Hits—Klein, Phillies, 51; FPullis, Phillies, 50. Home runs—Berger, Braves, and Klein, Phillies, 10. Pitching—Parmelee, Giants, 4-0; Meine, Pirates, and Carleton, Card- inals, 5-1. * AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting—West, Browns, .381; Ho- dapp, Red Sox, .374. Hits—Simmons, White Sox, 50] Manush, Senators, 48. Home runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 8; ‘eas Athletics, and Lazzeri, Yankees, “Pitching—Brerman, Yankes, 4-0; McAfee, Senators, and Mahaffey, Ath- letics, 3-0. Now that physicians are permitted to prescribe as much liquor as they see fit, you might say that hilarity is just around the corner. STEEL OPERATIONS IN UNITED STATES Ao | Fights Last Night | PA baa as Minister Two of the Missouri Slope’s greatest nines will clash in the Capital City's “Booster Day” contest. Beulah’s all-salaried Miners last week nipped Bismarck 3 to 0 in a bril- Mant game in which each team secured but three hits, The Capital City nine seeks retribution. Beulah claims the state championship for the last two seasons while the Capital City bossts one of its best teams in the last decade. ae