Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-06

L y world series, which gets
under way in Chicago Tuesday be-
tween the Cubs and the Athletics.
Both the National and Columbia
broadcaSting systems have COM
pleted the installation of equip
ment at Wrigley Field in Chicago
and Shibe Park in Philadelphia.
and preliminary tests are now be-
ing made to preclude any inter-
ruption in the broadcaStS by tech
nical or engineering defects.
According to present indica-
tions, the games will be handled
by more broadcaSting stations
than ever before. The N. B. G.
already has signed up So stations,
the largest network ever formed to
distribute a sports program. Thlr-
ty-three stations have arranged to
be connected with the Columbia
microphoneS, and others are eX-
pected to be added.
Graham McNamee, veteran
sports announcer, will describe the
games for the N. B. c. chain, and
Ted Husing, ace of the Columbia
announcing staff, will be at the
microphone for it's network.
McNamee plans to announce
every game. In Chicago he will
work from a specially constructed
radio booth in the press box di-
rectly back of the catcher'S box.
Sen" Kaney of the N. B. c. Chi
cago studios will serve as "obServ-
err" At Shibe Park. however, NC
Nance will be assisted by George
Hicks, WRC announcer.
The Columbia microphoneS are
located in special glaSS-incloSed
booths in the stands behind first
base. Separate microphoneS also
have been installed outside the
booths, which will be used when
the crowd noises remain at a nor
NAL level. In moments OF intense
excitement, however, HuSing will
60 in the glass incloSeH booth to
prevent an interruption in the
running description of the games.
Six thousand miles in sixth OF
a second is the speed record for
distance covered made by the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System in 3
recent broadcast, when 1t trans
ferred a radio audience from a
dressing room in the Paramount
theater in Paris, France, to d
broadcaSting studio in Hollywood.
Calf. The incident took place as
a part of a recent performance OF
the Paramount-PubliX hour.
Arrangements were made with
Maurice Chevalier, one OF the
Paramount stars, now playing at a
Paris theater, to expect a tranSat-
lantic phone call around 2 o'clock.
Paris time. Sunday morning. Ar
rangementS had also been made III
New York City to connect this end
of the phone call into the trans
mitters of the Columbia system.
At 8 O'Clock, Eastern standard
time, the call was put in to Cheva-
lier and IL minutes later the oper-
ator informed Columbia engineers,
1--WE are ready with Paris!" That
portion of the Paramount-Publix
hour which was scheduled to be
produced in New York was draw
ing to close and Louis Witten,
the guest announcer, was about to
turn the rest of the broadcast
westward to the Hollywood studio
Instead, he turned eastward to
Paris, where Maurice Chevalier
voiced his greetings to the Ameri-
can radio audience from his native
city. In his greeting Chevalier
called attention to the fact that
this was the first time in his life
that he had ever spoken to an
audience on Sunday morning and
had them hear him on Saturday
night.
When Chevalier concluded, the
control of the Columbia system
was shifted direct to Hollywood
thus completing the longest
switch-over in radio history, one
quarter of the distance around the
earth. Less than one-sixth Ola
second was required to make the
shift. Statisticians have figured
that If this rate OF speed were
maintained, the globe could be
rounded in less than a second
They further figured that the dis
lance from S2aris to Hollywood
was covered aS q rate Of 2,160, DOC
miles per minste Further stats
teal figures on *il:S feat are Tar
from human comprehension and
therefore omitted.