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BASEBALL.
More Points Explained.
The throw is low and gets away, from the first baseman. It rolls. down the right field foul line. saying about six feet in fair
In the last half of the' ninth- laning, with the score 2 to D in favour of the visiting team and The following article is by the Mr. Wilson says that we are Manchester correspondent of suffering to-day because advantno one out, the home team, filled: Popular Wireless Weekly -
age has not been taken of the best the bases, The next batter hits the ball to the pitcher, who Treichant and telling sen-electrical study. tences these, spoken to me in the
The whole trouble:" he said throws home forcing the runner with emphasis. "is that the at the plate. The catcher then course of a most interesting con- versation I have had with Mr. L business has got into the hands throws the ball to the first base E. Wilson A.MI.EE, electrical of bagmakers and paper merman in an effort to complete a
double play.. engineer, famed in the North as chants and opticians. What is is the advice of the lacking pioneer of electrical enterprises and practically concerned with expert. One result is that com the broadcasting of music under mercial men are not taking the the old electrophone system.
interest in wireless that they
territory all the time. would otherwise do. "The coming thing." he said,
Now here is the problem. Prior| Tradesmen have made ex to the start of the game it was is the broadcasting of public periments the result of which any speeches. People who address expact could have told them be-greed that on overthrows of first huge gatherings will
make forehand. They have experi-or third all runners should be themselves heard over a very meated upon the British public entitled to advance one base. wide area. This sort of thing, instead of making their experi-right Gelder who returns it to the The ball is recovered by the Mr. Wilson reminded me, has ments in in the laboratory. Let been developed already
plate. In the meantime the us see to this at once and wire. ! America. It means that
less will not only go but willers originally on first and audience of a hundred thousand
second had scored and the bats-{ boom.” can hear one man at a time, hear
man who hit the tall to the the voice uniformly and evenly.
pitcher reached third.
"We shall," Mr. Wilson persisted, see appliances of this kind very shortly in this country. They can be used, too, at coal exchanges and cotton exchanges for disseminating news which every member ought to hear. doing away with notice boards. usually besieged by big crowds, multitude of people who have at present to be employed. I may say I have already ap proached the Master of the Manchester Royal Exchange with the view to this practice | being adopted there.
and
in
"I have also,-uggested to the Altringhar(Cheshire) show anthorities that they shouldtrans
mit music so that everybody in the showground can hear the same band playing. If the enter tainment tax were only removed we should be able to do it. To realise what can be done in this direction, you have only to look
The team in the field claimed
he had throw of the catcher to
the first baseman should be re-
I asked Mr. Wilson if he thought Manchester was holding its own in the national movement. There was no doubt, he said, that Manchester transmission at the present moment was quite good, garded as an overthrow, and that and almost equal to any other the runners be permitted to ad-
vance only one additional base,) station in the country, but at one which would have permitted the time it was notoriously the worst runner on second to score, the It was the old story. Manchester runner on first to go to third and had tried to carry too much on the batsman who hit the ball to their own shoulders without get second. What about it? ring into touch with people who knew something about it.
Glas-
gow started months after Man- chester, but were better advised: consequently they got better results long before Manchester.
CHEAP CRYSTAL SETS.
NELSON 1 ETTER DISCOVERED.
Written from The Victory
Before Trafalgar.-
THE INTERPRETATION. The throw of the catcher to the' first baseman which got away from that player and, rolled into right field, all the time remaining in fair territory certainly would not be considered in the light off As for the ordinary man in an overthrow by major league the street," say Mr. Wilson. "he ampires. The ball would be con wants to get enjoyment from sidered in play and runners allow- broadcasting with the minimumed to advance at their peril. The: amount of expense and without two runs that scored should have requiring any technical know been allowed and the batsman ledge. Therefore the cheap cry permitted to remain at third. stal sets are the ideal thing for him because there are no 30- at the great Brighton enterprise,cumulators and the connections where the music of a band is pro-are simple, if only they could give jected so that it can be heard the Tanke. A boy of seven could use whole length of the promena le. the crystal set without any diff- Then Mr. Wilson proceeded to ecity or danger. Developments nge that wireless should be
are taking place by which the treated as a commercial propusi- the public will get valve sets tak- tion and not as a plaything, but ing the minimum amyont quick s'added that he was hope-current and abolishing the use of tful because the telephone, when
the accumulator. That is a ster first invented, was regarded as a in the right direction.
Cheun Life is publishing a fac-) scientific ty
We can look forward to the simile of the letter as a supple- day," he said in conclusion, "when ment to the coming issue. INTERESTING HISTORY.
there will be no power required The letter is dated November "A Manchester cotton man,"
at the user's end, but that all the 19. 1803. It has been submitted to was the first to see the
power will be supplied from the high authority and pronounced business value of the telephone, à broadcasting station. That is the He tinanced it, and the first tele; ideal system. and it is one that It was written from the Victory phone exchange was erected in the telephone has to some extent at the time when the British Manchester. The French had a fevolved. One need have no fears main fleet was waiting behind the service called the theatrophone, concerning the future of wireless. Madalena Islands for the French and we in this country, thinking It does not present any of the and Spanish naval forces tr it might be applied to church difficulties of telephony. Passing emege from Toulon and Carb- services, brought on an instru- ! a current over a copper wire is a fagena prelude to the battle of{ ment which we called the electro- far more complex business than Trafalgar. phone. In 1898, when the then most
imagine. people
The letter reads: Prince of Wales was laid up with popularity of wireless has rather Sir--I cannot allow myself to an injury at Waddleston Hall, hainpered than helped its develop depart from the Mandalone Is mu-ie was broadcast to him by ment in the past. Now we must lands without assuring you how mean of this electrophone, so
settle down and apply it scien-sensible" I am of your greatį ; that broadcasting is really a very, titi-ally practical business attention To me and to!
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An instrurgent was erected at i Mr. Wilson's last remarks Fleet which has anchored here | Wimisor Castle by which Queen aptly put the whole position off and I shall be much obliged if Victoria, who had never used a wireless, as applied in broadcast you will forward my letter to his telephone in her life, heard music ing, in a nutshell. There is no Excellency the Vicerns, expres This was the beginning of the de- I doubt but that a considerable sive of the same sentiments. selopment of brade asting
amount of hindracre to the; I am sorry it it not in my "Now we have reached the advance of this science has been power to prevent the Barbary wireise mit The thing I will caused by the sale of inferior cruisers from landing in Sardinia. say for the bid system, we never apparatus and attempts to boom as we are at peare with them. forgot were entering for wireless by wrong methods, and but if they had attempted a land- music loving projde, and the
a publicoure disappointed ring at this place during my stay purity of our transmitters was taken-in is difficult to optisce I should have felt myself bound THE HUMAN ZOO perfect. As engineers we did not where the real social and com-in honour to have afforded you i dare to thrust discordant tirikes
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ORIGIN OF LIFE.
Sir Oliver Lodge and the Power of Ight.
Will scienife research solve the niystery of the origin of life?
ing are concerned.
Chur instinet, Sir Oliver added. rebelled against the idea that all this radiation resulted in nothing. He could more readily imagine! that light re-ulted somehow in the veneration of matter.
then.
Fun, sir, wishing every pross perity to your infant settlement with the greatest respect your
TITONE
Obedient Servant,
Nelson & Bronte.
1 hee that you will deliver the encloset letter to any if his! | Majesty's ships who may arrive. The subject of origins." hei I leave the transport here and continued, usually lies outside consider under the protection of srience. The origin of matter is the neutrality of the port. · N. &j as beyond our ken as the origin) B.
Sir Oliver Lodge the famous scientist, has made some tentative of life: and yet people speculatej Lien:-Commander speculations upon the problem in about the origin of life.
writes of the document:
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la lecture to the staff of the ***Some highly estimated men | The letter to the Governor of
National Physical Laboratory. of
science hope It any, the Madalonas was written by: reproduced in the Current issue rate that some day the Neln on eve of one of his de of "Nature" »
chemistry алок physics ofpartures from the bases; he had "There is an immense amount life may he 3 far under been anxious to enlist the sym- of rudiation. he said, travel stond that * highly complex pathy and co-operation of the ling about space. The whole assemblage of organic molecules Governor, who amount of solar radiation is por may simulate and perhaps, adopt provide both supplies and water tentous. The fraction which the its functions.
to the fleet, and also, in its absen-
was able to
earth catches, though terres- "I see nothing ipconceivable ince, to act as agent. trially so important, is but a this. Life has originated soma- "He was in fact a 'benevolent minute fraction of the whole how, and if we can get to under-¦ neutral,' and, as such, of con-
importance to less than the two thousand mil- stand anything about its origin,siderable
thei lionth part--and it seems to have the effort is legitimate. ·
British Admiral, partically in the been going on for hundreds of
"It may fail; but it would be a matter of giving information re millions of years. The radiation very superficial view of religion the movements of the enemy. from many of the sters
which resented its success. Mind} "The letter illustrates anew the dominates matter; and the mind pains which Nelson, took greater.
of man is not altogether of a cultivate the friendship of any different order from the mind of official who might be of service to the Creator.”
England,"
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What becomes of all that radiation? Is it-all waste?"
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