Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-02
TWO ARE WINNERS
IN RADIO CONTEST
Florence Foston and Douglas
Richardson Each Select Six
of Seven Stations.

Florence Poston, So Maryland
avenue northeast, and Douglas Rich
ardson, 1915 Gallatin street, are the
winners of The stars radio station
identification contest for the fourth
week. which ended Sunday according
to a final tabulation of the returns
TO-DAY. Each succeeded in identifying
six of the seven stations listed during
The week. and therefore must 'iare
the honor OF winning the contest as
well as the SO cash prize.
Miss Ppston apparently believes in
he old adage If AT first you don't
succeed. try try again. for she has
competed in the contest from its incep-
tion without ending among The win
ners each week Mr.. Richardson
apparently was a new entrant for the
! fourth contest week.
Mere Stations Identified.
Either the radio station Identified
ton contest editor selected stations
just at the time q majority of the CON
testants were tuned to it, or else the
contestants are becoming more eiiici-
ent. for the percentage of stat ons
identihed during the fourth week Of
the contest were higher than amy
/ preceding week Four of the partici
pants named five of the seven stations
correctly, Is of them identified four,
nine OF them three and five OF them
two.
The stations selected during the
week were as follows:
Monday January IA. Wis, Chi
cago.
Tuesday. January IS. WBAL. Bal
timore.
Wednesday. January 26. WMBF,
Thursday. January 81, WEBER,
Rossville, n. Y,
Friday. January %. WGY. Sche-
nectady, and WMAK, Lockport
which were linked for joint broad
cast.
Saturday, January 90, wGN. Chi
cago.
Sunday, January 80, WAX, Jack
sonville.
The only station which Miss Pos
<ton and Mr.. Richardson failed to
identity was WBBR, which was Sc
lected Thursday night.
The contestants who Identified five
stations each .Jere: William Crentz,
l21 Twelfth street southeast; Will
| liam Turner. Vienna Va.e ii. ID.
l.
northeast. and Mrs L. b. Olmstead,
station Fl, Route 2. ID. c.
Thirteen Got Four Stations.
Those who named four stations fol-
low: Alvin l.. Plant, 1925 First street.;
Mrs. H. l.. Briggs. 2577 Rhode Island
avenue northeast; j. e. Lunsford, 214O
" street; Winston Mooney, Kensing.
ton, Md; A. S. Branson, 6l7 Third
street; Eugene Jefferson, 40 South
Oak street, Lyon Park, Va; Mrs. Leo
V. Seaman, SIS Kennedy street. Elsie
NJ Hart, 1901 Euclid street; Roger A.
Hoyt, 4210 Thirteenth street north
east; Muriel G. Davis, 1402 Monroe
street northeast; G. Kenneth Horner
224 Beech street, Clarendon, Va; Ran
dolph Buckley, Clifton Station, Va,
and an unnamed contestant who lives
at 10 Wine avenue, Hyattsville, Md.
The nine contestants who identified
three stations were: John j. O'Brien,
20 NJ street: Mrs. b. +. Knox, Manas-
sas, Va: w. b. Morse, 911 Twenty
second street; A. B. Mess. 1907 Spring
road; Albert b. Butler. SIS Ninth
street northeast: Joseph b. Elliott, 104
Mason street, Cherrydale, Va. George
McCeney. Upper Marlboro. Md; Miss
Bessie Merrick, sac East Capitol
street, and J. Strong, 30 Thirteenth
street southwest.
Those who named two stations each
were: Mrs. w. M. Spare, $50 Mime
sofa avenue northeast; Mrs. James
Hulfish, GIG North Washington street,
Alexandria, Va. Thomas A. Bamford,
725 Fern street. Evelyn Reaney, 25S
Park avenue, Takoma Park, Md, and
A. Pearl Mcpherson, 104 West Thorn
apple street, Chevy Chase, Md.