New-York tribune., 1922-10-03
w World's Series
Radio Tuned
For "Play Ball.
Apparatus Meets All Tests
and Crantland Rice Will
Broadcast Came Play by
Play for The Tribune
Many Notables to Speak
Baseball's Fam Gus Men
Likely to Address the
Audience of 100000
By Jack Binns
Radio Editor The Tribune


Radio Editor The Tribune
Complete success is now assured for
the broadcasting by radiophone Of
every play in the worlds series be-
tween the Yankees and Giants at the
Polo Grounds. By concerted efforts
yesterday the engineers of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company and the
Westingh house Electric and Manufac-
turing Company smoothed out the
minor difficulties that had to be over
come before the first attempt at broad
casting worlds series could be a sue
cess.
Now the stage is all set, ready for
Grantland Rice, The Tribunc's noted
sport expert, to begin his description
of each game to an audience of mil
lion and half
Wires in Perfect Shape
Shortly before dusk yesterday engi-
neers of the two companies had COM
pleted one of the most remarkable
tasks ever accomplished in such a
short time. Every inch of the two
wires, especially set aside by the West
ern Union, was gone over with testing
apparatus, and every extraneous noise
that would interfere with perfect
transmission was eliminated by one or
another of the many devices known to
the telephone engineer. Filters were
placed at some; points and repeaters at
others, in order that nothing would
check the easy flow of current that
will carry Mr.. Rice's voice from the
Polo Grounds to the Radio Corpora
ton estinghouse station, WIZ, at
Newark when the games start to-mor-
row.
This work of preparing the wires
was accomplished under the joint su-
pervision of NJ. l.. Moseley and T. J.
I Smith, of the Western Union. and
c. w. Horn and j. C. Frazier, of the
Westinghouse company. In the eve
ming they announced that both wires
were in perfect shape for the impor-
tant project.
The only remaining test to be made
now is the actual hooking up" of
the two wires to the radio transmitting
apparatus at WIZ. This will be done
to- day during one of the broadcasting
periods allotted to that station.
This test will last only few
minutes, and will be made to obtain
final assurance that everything is
ready.
Early in the morning the engineers
will install the three-stage amplifier
that will build up the voice of Mr.. Rice
in the Polo Grounds. This amplifer
is so powerful that it will easily mag
nifty all of the noises in the grounds
for transmission to the Newark radio
station. Thus IL is quite probable that
at rare moments during the games
when the vast crowd is fairly quiet, the
sound of a bat hitting the ball may
be heard over the radiophone.
At Newark similar amplifer will
again build UP the voice currents in
order to make up for any losses that
may occur in transmission before they
are placed on the modulating system
of the transmitter. All of this work
has entailed tremendous amount
of detail experimentation, which has
been accomplished only because of
the unstinted cooperation between the
officials and staffs of the two compa-
nies. The transfer from the wire to
the radio will be supervised by George
Bliziotis, chief operator at WIZ.
Personages May Speak
1t is expected that during the games
all of the personages in the baseball
world will speak to the radio audience.
ne owners anu managers OF Lne TWO
teams undoubtedly will speak, and it
is probable that the umpires will an
nounce the batteries for each game,
provided it is possible to install the
microphone in convenient place. =
The tremendous interest in the un-
dertaking has already manifested it.
self in the number of letters received
concerning details for broadcasting the
games. In addition. to this, it is re-
ported that the rush for new radio
installations is virtually as great as the
demand for tickets to the games.
Mr.. Rice is call set" for the novel
experience, and has promised to be
at the games early in order to describe
the crowds, as we'll as the preliminary
practice of the two teams.
All is ready to go, on wave-length Of
$50 meters.