New Britain herald., 1927-09-23
Through tie Static

"S S~~6" sssS DS0SS\ It was great fight, Wow. The
 thrills are still chasing themselves
 along our backbone and we can still
 hear Graham NcNamee's voice, tense
 with excitement, telling us that . Dempsey is practically out on his
 feet" just as the battle ended with i the bell that brought the 10th round , to close. ] We can frankly say that Graham ! McNamee has never handled a fight , more capably. Through his efforts i and those of Phillips Carlin we were at the ringside at Soldiers Field. l The pictures painted were brightly colored and the entire affair made | ! Us glad that we waited around until | 1 II o'clock. while preliminary rounds ! were fought between two young men | | Who according to Mac, were trying. i ! He said it would be impossible to | | characterize the blows as right | ] hooks, left hooks, jabs or anything ! else. "They just stand there and ; SOCK" he said
 WEAF. New York, operating through it's 50-KW transmitter, went on the air from Soldiers Field, promptly at 10 o'clock. WI3Z follow ed shortly after, as did WIZ. WTIC offered dance music until 10:30 o'clock and the fans of that station were denied Phil Carlin's Enappy and some times humorous comments on the crowd and-the crowd. Phil's statistics regarding the amount Of refreshment consumed and the num- Der of bald headed men present, to- gcther with the comments on the number with boards was decidedly funny. Early in the presentation he started on the"butcher boys as he called those who trotted into the ring with the cards announcing the number of the round to come and each time he referred to them as the butcher boys" describing them as wearing white flannel coats, edged with patent leather. Phil talked well and he presented facts in an inter esting manner, telling about the fire brigade, the number Of men required to take care of tickets and other things.
 The fight was the best we have ever heard broadcast. There were comparatively few idle moments and Mac succeeded in transmitting to us his excitement and his enjoyment Of the fracas. He had us almost doing nervous handsprings in the seventh round, so graphic was his descrip- ton of the manner in which things were going against Tunney. There was such force in Graham's talk that we could almost feel the blows as they were struck. We switched to WTIC for the big bout, and we might say that transmission was per feet. WEAF faded to some extent, in addition to being cut up just a trife by static every few minutes WBZ was not bad at all, but we went over to WTIC, anyway.
 After the fight, other things seemed commonplace. We tuned in l. the Eskimos at WEAF earlier in the evening and heard them play Miss issippi Squabble." It was squabble all right. Sort of wild.
 WGN, Chicago, came through very loud at 12:30 a. m. with band music. We didn't stay for any set number Of From WGN we went over to WIS, Chicago. where a playlet, Plantation Night" was being offer cd. It was all about negro who left his family in the south 40 years ago and returned. We don't imagine he recognized many of the folks. Poor Uncle Ned" and "Massa's in De Cold, Cold Ground" were two ot the selections. WLS was decidedly loud.
 WTAM, Cleveland, boiled over with dance music, the program al most demolishing our loud speaker. We played cagey, though, and turned down the rhcostat. WHAM, Roches- ter, offered an organ recital, High, High, High Up in the Hills and Magnolia" being a couple of titles. The organ was a deep voiced young ster and it was played with a magic touch, (Quick, Watson, -----).
 
 WJR, Detroit; KDKA, Pittsburgh, and all the locals came through well last night. There was a bit oi static Of the grating variety. There were few crashes, just sort of a raj tie off in the distance. Some times It came quite close and other times 1t off in the distance, where lt should have been all the time. We noticed little fading, and we also mo- 'iced that clarity was one of the big features on all wavclengths.
 That's all for today, thanks!
 p. E. L,