The Washington times., 1930-05-13
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KEGS Of the right to broadcast
games in which the Griffmen par
ticipate at Yankee Stadium has
raised a new problem for WRC
which plans to put the out-of-town
Washington games on the air.
Colonel Rupert lines up with
Connie Mack in barring micro
phones from the press stands.
Both magnates claim that the ali
account hurts the box office busi-
ness.
Without the Yankees and the
Athletics the foreign broadcaSts
of our out-of-town games will be
sadly incomplete. The matter is
still being debated with WRC
eager to give a complete service
or none at all.
Another spelling bee from
Washington with Ladies of the
Press" competing against the
championship team of the Gen
tlemen of the Press" will be
broadcast by the National Broad
casting Company from the audi
toriuln of the National Press CLUB
on Saturday, May IT, from 7:30
to $3.50 o'clock, Eastern standard
time.
This spelling bee is the out
ArNUyfN ~ tho Loa1J
In Washington in which members
Of the National Press Club won
over congressional team of Sen
ators and Representatives Sew
eral days ago the Woman'S Ma
tional Press Club challenged the
VictorS.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife
of the Speaker of the House and
daughter of the late President
Roosevelt. has accepted a post
as Judge Of the contest, as has
Mrs. Alfred J. BroSseau, former
president general of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution.
Acceptance by the mems team
Of the challenge of the women
correspondents came with consid-
cradle reluctance, according to
Margaret Poe Hart, who is chair
man of the entertainment COM
mittee of the women'S club. She
admits that the fact that her
brother, Lee Poe Hart. Of the
New York Journal of Commerce,
who occupies post similar to
hers in the National Press Club,
had considerable bearing on the
decision to yield to the challenge.
Miss Hart and her brother are
organizing their respective teams
and expect to complete their line
up in a day or so.
To insure victory. the Women'S
Press Club has been conducting
elimination contests among its
members. The last of these con
tests will be held today. In addi-
ton the club has invited Ruth
Hanna Mccormick. Representative
and Republican nominee for the
Senate from Illinois. and Mrs.
Frances Parkington Keyes. wife
OF Senator Keyes Of New Hamp-
shire, to Join its team.
When Max Schmeling and Jack
Sharkey tangle for the heavy
weight championship of the world
at the Yankee Stadium in New
York on June u, the scrap will
probably be put on the air.
The title fight will be staged
for the Mrs. William Randolph
Hearst Milk Fund and the Column
bia BroadCaSting Company ex-
poets to have a microphone at the
ringside.
Highlights On today's programs
are:
2P. M.
WMAL-American School of the
Air program.
Between the early experiments
OF the Wright Brothers and the
epoch flight of Colonel Lindbergh
lies the dramatic history of avia.
ton which will be presented to
school children. The dramatiza-
ton will deal largely with the life
and efforts of the Wright Brothers
in developing the airplane into a
practical means of transportation
1t will show the giant strides
made between the past and the
present.