The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-02
PHONE REPORT
OF BATTLE TO
over 100000
Is MementOus Development In the
Field of Science, Thanks TO
Wireless.

Jersey lily. July - i've uuA
dred thousand persons who couldn't
come to the Dempsey-Carpentier
fight saw it by ear"
Wireless telephone carried voice
description of the fight round by
round. Attentive ears many miles
distant also heard the thud of
blows, the shutting of feet on the
canvas of the ring and the alter
nate murmurs and roars of the
great crowd in the arena.
Crowds gathered in halls in LAG
towns to listen in" on the fight by
means of huge sound amplifiers.
Thousands of amateur wireless
men and their friends heard" the
! fight. The returns also went to
ships at sea-and even were relayed
to Paris, where the wife of Georges
Carpenter listened in"
This unprecedented novelty in the
annals of sport is a momentous de-
yelopment in the field Of applied
| science.
Funds obtained from admission
fees to halls were divided between
the American committee for Devas-
tated France and the Navy club.
The fight returns were sent by
telephone wire from the arena to
the wireless towers at the Lacka-
| wanna railroad terminal in HO-
boken. From there they were trans
mitted to receiving stations in
stalled in halls in 112 towns within
a 200-miIe radius of New York
The powerful wireless station of
the Westinghouse Electric & Manu-
featuring company in East Pitts
burgh, Pa, picked up the returns
and flashed them to receiving sta
tons in halls in 81 towns within a
50-mile radius of Pittsburgh.
Commander Patterson, district
superintendent of the United States
naval communication service, re
layed reports to ships at sea.
The wave length from the jersey
main station was 1900 meters ant
} the wave length of the East Pitts
burg station was $50 meters.
Wireless fight parties sat in hall
, in the following liz cities within
a 200-mile radius of the arena:
New York-New York city
Brooklyn, Mt. Vernon, New Ro
chelle, Port Chester, Cortland
Oneonta, Schenectady. Auburn, Syria
cuse, Glenn Falls, Saratoga, LAX
, George, Amsterdam, Gloversville
Little Falls, Albany, Troy, Hudson
Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Newburgf
Middeltown, Port Jervis. YonkeT!
} Ossining, Utica, Rome, BinghamtoI
Norwich. Elmira, Peekskill Ithaca.
Conecticut-Greenw Danbur!
Stamford, Bridgeport, New Haver
Norfolk, New London. Waterbury
New Britain, Heridan, Hartford
Norwalk
MaSsa chusetts - New Bedford
I Fall River, BrCckton, Quincy, Bos
= ton, Lowell, Worcester, Holyokf
l Springfield, Fittsfield, Fitchbure
t Lawrence, Gloucester, Lynn, Salem
New Jersey-Paterson Passait
e Newark. The Oranges, ElizabetE
= Princeton, Atlantic City, Ashbur
y Park, Long Branch, Lakewood
Trenton, Plainfield, Jersey Cit
, Perth Amboy, Somerville, Bayonnt
i Camden, Hoboken.
; PennsyIva nia-Philadelphia MOI
ristown. Columbia, Reading, Bastor
y POttSyllle, harrisburg, York, Hazel
ton. Williamsrort, Pittston, Scran
ton, Wilkesbarre, Carbonate, Sayr'
q Chester, Lancaster, Lebanon, Allen
3 town.
S Rhode Island-Providence, New
e port.
: New Hampshire Man
e chester, Concord, koene.
T DelawaTe-Wilmfn Dover.
o Observation-Disclosures Annapoli
d Hagerstown, Redwick
e Vermont-RUtlaud.
o Washington, d. c.
d The East Pittsburgh Wrestling
house released the returns to hall
q arranged for in these Pennsy
n vania towns:
: Pittsburgh, Northsi6e Pitt!
= buTgh, East Liberty, Wilkinsburi
n Verona, Oakmont, Sewickley, Ne
: Castle, Homestead, Munhall, Whit;
ker Mckeesport, Duquesne, Wilmer
:, ding, Pitcairn, jeanette, Greens
. burg, Dravosburg, New Kensingto,
9 Coraopolis, Sharpsburg, Rocheste
Washington, Beaver Falls, Vande
: grift. Butler, ElWood City, Conneli
y vile, Brownsville, Kittannin
BIairsville and Indiana