The Washington herald., 1920-04-11

First award, third event, Howard
Gronberg. GAL Massachusetts, avenue
northeast.
The three distinguished local
Judges were the final Judges in Sc
lecting the winners of the five spe
cial Parezo awards. They also Sc
lected the three best sets of mate
rial submitted in each of the three
events to send to the national judges
as this city's representation in the
nationwide contest.
DR.. Lee de Forrest. J. S. Newman
and Elmer f. Bucher are the three
national judges who are going over
the material sent from each city
which conducted a radio contest.
and will soon announce which
Washington amateur radio opera
tors are to share in the $1,000 in
cash and radio apparatus which is
to be distributed.
Report of Local Judges.
Following is the report Of the To-
cal judges regarding the first two
events as certified to the Radio Ed
itor:
First Event.
First award. William T. Barthol-
omew, 1909 Crittendep street north
west.
Second award. ]. N. HanIon. 1345
Florida avenue northwest.
Third award. Margaret r. Carroll,
1647 Lamont street northwest
(The essays of these three ANA
| teur radio operators were selected
as the best submitted in The Wash
L. n
have been sent to the national
tionwide contest).
The judges found considerable
difficulty in making these awards
because of the excellent quality OF
a number of the other contributions.
The principles followed in selecting
the prize winners were as follows 4:
"First-The essay should keep
closely to the announced subject,
namely, Amateur Wireless TeIeg-
raphy.' This consideration ruled
out a number OF excellent contribu-
tions which were good descriptions
of particular radio installations or
Interesting accounts of personal ex-
perience.
''Second-Considerab stress was
laid upon literary excellence, and IL
was necessary to reject on this ac-
count some contributions which
were interesting and showed an ex-
cellent knowledge Of the subject.
"Third-The examiners felt that
the principal purpose in calling for
these essays and in offering the
largest prizes for them was to OBJ
tain statements which would en-
courage young people to undertake
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and which would stimulate enthusi-
asm for this vocation; and there
fore, in making the selections much
stress was placed upon the adapta-
| bility of the essays to this end.
THE examiners felt that II might
not be inappropriate to make spe-
cial mention Of the contribution of
A. Mae Rogers, entitled The Wire
less Girl While this contribution
was Judged not to comply with the
conditions as set forth in sufficient
measure to justify the awarding of
a prize, II is felt to be a commend
able piece Of literature and worthy
/ of honorable mention"
Second Event.
First award, Joseph W. Meyer,
1884 College avenue, Elmira, N. Y.
Second award, James Dorsey
Simpson, jr., 500 West Twenty-fifth
street, South Richmond, Va
Third award, Walter W. Reed.
1928 Randolph street, Washington,
D. C.
The photographs and descriptions
of these three amateur radio oper-
ators were selected as the best
submitted in The Washington Her
AIDS Radio Contest and have been
sent to the national judges for con-
sideration in the nationwide con-
test.
"As there are two special local
prizes offered for Washington con-
testants. and only one OF the above
prize winners resides in Washing
ton, an additional award for the To-
cal prize has been made to j. G..
Sproken, 1406 Fifteenth street
northwest, Washington, d. c.
In making the awards for this
event. which relates to photographs
and descriptions of amateur radio
stations, the examiners were once
more impressed with the value of
contributions from a number whom
they were not able to include in the
list OF prize winners. The follow
ing considerations were kept in
mind in making the choice:
81. Other things being equal, It
seemed fair to prefer the most rela-
lively complete and powerful send
ing and receiving station to one less
complete or of shorter range. Most
OF the competitors have only. re-
ceiving stations. and for this rea-
son the first two prizes have been
awarded to contestants who have
sending as well as receiving equip
ment.
"2. The excellence of the pictures
submitted from a Photographic point
of view was given a certain amount
of weight.
"s. A reasonably short. concise
description was given preference
over one which was too wordy or
went Into too minute detail.
e. As this is a contest for ANA
teurs. 1t seemed necessary to rule
out, any contestants who were judg-
ed nSt to be in that class,
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