Arizona republican., 1921-10-11

who play the game for the crowds every day in this city were intr0- duced between the seventh and eighth innings of the game yesterday.
 All the plays which the fan sees on the board must be interpreted be- hind the board by these four men before they can be shown to the crowd. As the news comes over the
 wire it must be examined rapidly and thoroughly, the condition of the board
 with regard to players, strikes, balls, fouls and other possible plays ascer-
 tained, and the new play. whatever It
 is. executed rapidly and correctly.
 Not for moment can the attention
 of the workers be taken from their task, and their success may be gauged from the fact that during the five
 games already played not single
 misplay has been registered by the
 player board
 The announcements yesterday were
 made by Curly Blanchard, dean of all the announcers of the. Southwest,
 who introduced the operators of the
 board in the same style which would
 have distinguished him at a banquet
 of the Elks lodge The first man to
 be introduced to the crowd and to be
 cheered by it was Ed Harrington,
 sports editor of The Republican, who
 mas I1due tQe SpOrIHS page Ol IIe
 Republican the best thing of it's kind
 in the state. Then came Ward
 Adams. assistant sport editor and also
 assistant telegraph editor and mem
 Der of the local news staff. Harring-
 ton is in charge of the board and
 operates the ball and directs the
 playing field, while Adams operates the Yankee box score and is in charge Of the fouls and balls regis tered by the board.
 The third member of the combina ton is Oliver King, circulation man ager of The Republican. who Is in charge of the Giants box score and
 the side of the board opposite Adams. These three play the New York games for the Phoenix fans on the player board; keep the box score in order; make the announcements, and present the entire game, day after day, to the
 crowds in front of The Republican. Then came perhaps the most im- portant member of the organization c. F. Deem. the speed king of the As, sociated Press wire system in the Southwest, to whose quickness, ac-
 curacy and knowledge of the great American game much of the success of the player board is due. Deem gets the plays over the telegraph wire as they occur 3100 miles away in New York; Harrington okeh's the play and directs the operations of his assist ants as well as the motions of the ball. and Adams and King move the players on the board, watch the score board (which is a big job in itself) and do whatever else is necessary to present the play to the fans.
 Sounds simple, doesn't it? Well. it's usually about two hours of hard and gruelling work, in which every mental faculty must be kept at the alert in order that The Republican serve the fans with the best possible duplica- ton of the big series. And the suc- cess that has attended their efforts and the care with which they have operated the board Is proved by the l fact that at the end of the complex
 game of last Friday, the complicated box score as shown by The Repub- lican talIied at the end of the game exactly with the box score sent by the Associated Press when the game | was finished-and this mas been the
 case in every game.