New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-02-19
Through the Static

1t was a case of try and. bring in
anything last night. A tough evening,
verify and absolutely. Static and 9TH
er noises of an equally disturbing
nature made listening in duty rath-
er than a pleasure, at least as far as
this promising young writer was
concerned. There was little volume,
with the result that even the fairly
local stations had a tough job bat
ting their way through. Western
stations? Don't be silly! The static
was Of the swapping variety. very
hard on the nervous system. 1t didn't
bother us any. though. because If we
had any nerves we wouldn't be writ
ing this column every day.
Ha-ha- -ha! Did you try to get
the fight? So did we. Did you get 1t?
Neither did we. Again we laugh
this time. heartily 1t was great
sport, trying to bring in said fight,
since WMSG. New York. the only
station broadcasting the event direct
from the ringside, was swamped In
a mass of other stations, rendering
| it we'll night impossible for listeners
in this vicinity to get within hailing
distance. WPG, Atlantic City;
| KDKA, Pittsburgh; WLIB and WGN,
Chicago, and another unidentified
| broadcaster which was transmitting
from Carnegie Hall, whether In New
| York or elsewhere we don't know,
made matters decidedly tough. Every
five minutes or so during the pre-
| liminaries, we were able to hear the
announcer at WMSG saying some
thing about weights or stuff like that,
but we heard no real fight dope. 1t
was too hard to keep out the other
stations. WMSG faded like the very
dickens, too. Finally, in desperation,
we went over to WMCA, New York,
where Geographic report OF the ifs
tic struggle was being presented.
Several other stations were on the
air with Geographic stories also, but
We were anxious TO hear WMSG,
We finally landed the station so that |
it was audible and we held it for
four rounds. We were really getting |
interested in life once more. Other
stations were behaving themselves |
and the voice of the reporter at the |
ringside was fairly loud. Just as the !
tenth round was approaching its
height, some blamed idiot from an |
other station broke up the proceed
ings by running right into the fight |
program with a song, Little Span
ish Town" The announcer had just |
said that Delaney was in bad shape !
and we were eagerly looking forward |
to the end, only a matter of seconds
away. That finished It. We heard no |
more and we didn't even hear how
the fight ended until about an hour
later. We'd like to find that fellow !
who sang Little Spanish Town"
from WPG.
Another thing that balled up mat
tiers was the fact that WGN, Chi
cago, was broadcasting one of its
World Championship Fight series,
the Dempsey Willard battle at
Toledo in 19-well, several years ago.
1t might have been interesting and
we would have enjoyed it If we
hadn't been trying to bring in fight
which was in progress, out we were
in no mood for historical battles. and
we cursed WGN roundly, that is
round by round. For awhile We
thought we were listening to a Bat
tie Royal, with Delaney, Willard,
Maloney and Dempsey making passes
at each other. We thought lots OF
things in the course of last evening,
and some Of them wouldn't bear re-
cording here.
At 9 o'clock we tuned in on WBZ,
where Mary Garden, Emilio De Co
gorza, Hans Barth and the Famous
Artist concert orchestra presented a
delightfully."- high class offering. De
Gogorza, one of the most famous of
baritone, offered among others In
Old Madrid" a song we believe to
be the sweetest of all the Spanish