Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit September 11, 1964, 19258_1 (Thessolonia Smith, by Julia Brown, His Mother and Next Friend, and Julia Brown v. United States)

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.

Thessolonia Smith, called Junior, lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. In 1962 when he was thirteen years old he was a member of the Woolworth store’s Pony League baseball team that went out to Eielson Air Force Base, near Fairbanks, to play a game with another team in the league with its home at the base.