BASEBALL POINTS.
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QUESTIONS.-
One-If a fielder touches & runner with the ball as he slides into the bag, then juggles the "ball, and in the meantime the runner reaches the base, is the runner out if the ball isn't drop ped, or does the juggling of the ball make it necessary to again touch the runner?
Two-If a ball first hits in foul territory after leaving the bat, and then bounds into fair ground and settles there, is it a fair or
foul ball f
on the back. Should this be ruled interference and the runner he de clared out?.
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One The runner is not out. Juggling the ball made the touch void. If the runner reached the base in the meantime he is safe.
SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1923.
THE BRITISH BROADCASTING QUESTION.
Many-Sided Problem for Enquiry.
Two-A ball is fair or foul as to bereit finally settles. A ball can hit foul and thien bacome:fair, Four-It a base runnor starts to if it settles in fair territory be
A writer in the London Times (taste for the strict letter of the law. It is boside the point for the atesl as the pitcher delivers thetween first and home or third and
says. ball, said piton being wild, making bome. It was a fair ball.
Broadcasting is to be thrown Postmaster General to argue that. it an easy matter for the runner
Three Umpire should pay po to reach the next base, is it are attention to act of coacher in patinto the melting pot. That is the on a strict legal interpretation of ited as a stolen base?
ting the runner on back Changs upshot of six months bickering the agreement he might issue a "In all its licence to broadcast to another. for play bad ceased and there was and confusion no interference.
aspects," it is to be the subject company. In the same way the Four-Ifranner starts to steal of a Government inquiry; and, British Broadcasting Company prior to & battery error, he is festful that that simple reference credited with a stolen base. was too general, the Postmaster Five First baseman is charged General has invited the attention with an error because of bis fail- of the Committee over which Bir Frederick Sykes will preside to the following specific points which seem to go to the root of the present difficulties:--
Five-If the first baseman, įreceives a throw from the short- stop in ample time to retire the batsman, and fails to do because he misses the bag in attempting to touch it, is he
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(b) The notion which should be taken upon the determination of the existing licence of the Broad casting Company.
(c) Uses to which broadcasting may be put.
(d) The restriction: which may need to be placed upon its user and development.
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have not abone in the role of Kias Canute attempting to command the waves of honto construction by invoking the law to uphold the strict letter of their bond. Such
thing as 200 000 home-constrac tore was never thought of when the agreement was made,
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The problem of the home-made receiving sot is still with us. Sic William Joynson Hicka's decision to send the 33,000 applications for experimental licences to be ex- mined by his staff of experts, on the understanding that they will be granted if the authorities are satisfied that the object of the prospective licence-holder is experiment in wireless telegra phy, does not alter the position in the slightest. Two hundred There can be no doubt about thousand people will still con-j the wisdom of the step the Guv-tinue to "listen in" for nothing. ornment have taken. Things It is probaly true to say that could not much longer have gone the 600 manufacturers who are on as they were without serious members of the British Broad- ly fnjuring the prospects of the ossting Company are much more! industry. The whale position disturbed. at the evasion that is was prejudiced by misunderstand-going on in the trade than at the ing and even ill-feeling. The evasion by the home constructors. public was getting short of tem-The British manufacturera enjoy per; manufacturers were annoy-protection, but it is of a limited ed: traders ressatful; and there cbaraoter. There is no prohibi was something like an opention on the importation of wireless rapture between the Postmaster-apparatus, but the provieo that the General and the British Brond apparatus used under the broad- casting Company.
casting receiving licence must be! It comes as a relief to all con-marked with the trademark of cerned that the whole matter is the British Broadcasting Com- to be sent to arbitration. The pany prevents the tee of imported British Broadcasting Company apparatus for ordinary broadcast announce that they welcome the reception. inquiry an less than their neigh- boure, if it can do anything to clear up the confusion for which we are not responsible."
There is, however, no similar provision in respect of apparatus used under experimental licences, and, as a matter of fact, it is woll The Committee have a heavy known that large quantities of task in front of them, and it is foreign parts made principally in oertain their labours will not be countries with depreciated cur quickly over. The problem they rencies, and imported to Great, have to attack is big and many Britain at prices with which the sided, and, ite novelty only in-home manufacturer cannot hope craaaes its dificulty. The only to compote, are being employed. precedents they have to guide Chem are the experience of the last six months in this country and what has happened in the United States both of which pre cedents, it must be admitted, are full more of warnings than ex- amples. Still, signposts pointing. the road one should not go are better than nothing.
THREE SIMPLE ISSUES. No matter how numerous and thorny may be the points of detail, the terms of the Committee's re- ference may be reduced to three plain issues:-
(1) Who is to broadcast?
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(2) What is to be broadcast?
Thees parts are capable of easy assembly into efficient receiving. sets by almost any layman. It is strange that it should be so where one of the most wonderful dis coveries in the history of the world is concerned.
How this particular problem is to be faced will be one of the The Committee's main tasks. home manufacturers are urgent in their demand for protection against what they regard as menace to a new and promising British industry.
PROGRAMMES.
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(3) Who is to pay for broad sas-may safely be left to the Cǝm.
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There are three different ques.be for all who share in its benefits. either social or posuniary, to tions to be weighed when con sideration is given to the question contribute towards the mainten under whose auspices broadcast.ance of the service.
The members of the public have ing is to be carried on. There is tho singlo concrat private shown no iodjeposition to contri- Authority, as represented by the bure their abare. That is not the British Broadcasting Company; explanation of the 200,000 persona there is the unrestricted issue of without licences. What the pub-
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as in the United States; and, lastly, there is the State.
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Theprogrammes are improving. remote that it may be ruled out at oneo. Accordingly it seems to be They show a steady advance, and a question of one broadcasting the very difficulties in which the company or many. The multipic British Broadcasting Company themselves with the ity of companies in America has Bad produced nothing but confusion theatrical managers and others aad injury to the public interest, prove. that those responsible for: and the authorities there are now the programmes recognize the engaged in the sorrowful task of desirability of further improve- trying to remedy their original ment. mistake..
It is in regard to this matter of There are objections to a single programme that the development authority, but the objecitons are of broadcasting requires to bo probably fewer than to either most carefully watched. There of the other alternatives. We are Interests which may be might easily have reproduced in adversely affected of far greater this country the position which importance than broadcasting, exists in America, for there were and it is well that the Committee originally twenty applications for of Inquiry, have been asked to permission to broadcast. It was mark out, as clearly as possible, due entirely to the firm stand the boundary lines within which taken by the Post Office that the the new. enterpriee may freely
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A SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM. Plans for establishing a school
It is not too much to say that manufacturera. were driven inta one combine against their will, When the presont Postmaster of journalism in China on. the Generel uses such a bard, word as lines of the Pulitzer School of *monopoly " he ought to remem. Journalism at Columbia Univer- her that the British Broadcasting sity are announced. The scheme. Company la the handiwork of his was drawn up by Dr. Leighton predecessors, and their advisors Stuart, president of the Peking more than of anyone else. University, before bis recent In this quarrel between the departure for Chins, from Ameri Postmaster-General and the can. A drive for funds will soon British Broadcasting Company be launched in Washington sad both sides have shown too keen a in the Far East,
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