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BASEBALL POINTS.

More Questions Answered. "

QUESTIONS

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run sign and singles through - short Eunner on first goes to third on play, while batsman reaches second on play to get rudner going to third. Runner who reached third, failed to touch second, ball is thrown thoro and he is called out, retiring side. What about this play.

Five-Ground ball is a few Two-le there a penalty i afinches foul as it passes third. fielder throws his glove at a batted then englishes into fair territory or thrown, ball, but fails to bit it.

Three-Bataman strikes at ball, bits same, ball rebounds from bat and strikes batter, rolling into

Oue-When must the catcher hold the ball on a third strike to retire the batsman ?

fair territory. Bateman had not left his position. What is proper ruling?

Four-With runner on first and two down, batter gives hit and

Is it fair or foul?

ANSWERS.

One-When bases are empty catcher must always hold third strike to retire batter. If any base other than first is occupied he must hold the ball. If with two out and first in occupied ke

must hold the ball. The rule is that with first base occupied and; less than two out, the batsman is automatically out on a third strike. This is done to prevent purposely dropping the ball and trying for a double play.

Two--The glove must come into contact with the ball for a pen- alty to be inflicted.

Three-It is a foul ball as the batsman who has not left his box

SATURDAY, JUYL 14, 1923.

RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.

Broadcasting Project for Japan.

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news.

Musical programmes,

"We can look forward to the stock market reports and lectures future of the radio industry with by radio, states the Japan Adver high hopre, not only from the tiser, may become a commonplace standpoint of broadcasting bu in in foul territory.

Four-Bateman is not credited form of instruction and entertain from the standpoint of its general with a hit, eince the failure of ment in Japan if the Department commercial application. It is big, the ruquer to touch second on his of Communications grants a per- and it is here to stay. And who way to third, made a force play mit to the Japan Radio Corpora- dares to say what the future will

Novel Demonstration Van.

tion to sell receiving sote" and be ?** for the third out,

Five-The ball is foul, if so erect a broadcasting station In directors are prominent in Tokyo when it passed third base. It Tokyo. This new company, whose

It is difficult to give demonstra. matters not what later happened. business circles, is capitalized at tions in remuto country villages, Y1,000,000, and preparations have but Mesara, Wireless Service, Ltd., progressed to such a point that, have overcome this by rigging up should a permit be granted to-day a special van. Itconsists of a cour the country could be listening to ing motor car, the body of which radio programmes in 30 days, has been camouflaged to look likes The company has been at work smallcountry cottage. A short ver for weeks, and has laid its plans efficient serial his been, erectel carefully and in a business-like on the roof, and the interior is manner. The project is now be equipped with a Gacophone two. fore the Government for ap valva receiving set and loud proval, and hopes are high that speaker equipment. Some very the permit will be granted by the auccessful toure have been, mada Department of Communications in the country districts within before the end of the year. Ia 100 miles of London, and the a pormit is refused, the van has visited several market company will ask the Diet to towns and given demonstrations pass a law next spring to allow in the market places. Buch & company to operate. There are no regulations con- trolling private wireless vontures in Japan at present, For that reason the company has been de- layed and has met with many barriers and discouragementa.

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Recent Inventions,

E Paffner Condensers.- Digi charges from the edges of platasi separated by an insulating dielec- tric are prevented by providing the plates with a high-resistance The officers of the company border such as a very thin layer believe that they can convince of conducting material applied to the authorities that such a project the insulator by chemical pre- would bring immense and incalcipitation or by heat, or powdered culable benefits to the Japanese graphite and a binder. nation in the form of entertain- British Thomson-Houston Co., ment, education and culture, sod Ltd-Producing Oscillations.- that for this reason their plans In a thermionic negative resist should be allowed to, progress anca device the electrode emitting unbindered.

the secondary electrons or 'dynatrone" is maintained at an average negative potential. Io one arrangement the load circult is coupled to the plate circuit of a valve and is given a high pos itive potential (300-1,000 volts) by a direct current source. The

Radio Not a Craze.

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is difficult to estimate the econo-grid is connected to the usual mic importance of a thing that will allow the voice of a single map to be carried to a million ears. Today it is largely a mat- ter of entertainment; to-morrow it will be à utility.

oscillators (inductance capacity). circuit, but is maintained at a negative potential by a battery. Oscillation is started by giving a momentary positive charge to the grid.

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*There are still many problems E. Pollock. Transmission.- that must be worked out, sore. In transmitting speech or spark technical and some commoralsi.siguals the output circuit, con A phonograph. manufacturer trolled as described in No. 194,- makes more profit on his records 765, is inductively ecupled in- than he does on the machine, directly to the aerial inductance! George Eastman once said that which is also inductively coupled he would give Kodaks away if to the plate circuit of a triode. people would buy bis film. Row-valve, the grid oircuit of which ever, in radio we have an entirely is shunt coupled to the microp- different state of affairs. When a hone or key. Thus current radio manufacturer solls avariations in the microphone or receiving instrument be is more key circuit." cause modulated or less morally obligated to sup-energy to be transmitted by the ply the purchaser with entertain-aerial. In another arrangement, ment. Here is a condition that use is made of a combined. is economically unsound. Yet generating and modulating valve. there is no way in which the L. G. Preston & G. Shearing. ranufacturer can charge the user-Transmission.-Sparking and for the entertainment he supplies. other troubles due to cutting out "We must look upon the year portions of the grid coupling coil 1922 as the great year of experi- when reducing the wave-longth ence in radio. It has taught in high power sets are prevented many severe lessons and has by splitting up the coil into blighted many bapes. Our manu- several sections arranged (qually facturers have learned that they ¦ on each side of the exciting coil. muet sell programmes instead of Mutual coupling between the instruments. They have also sections and the sparking poten- learned many new and interesting tials of the tapping points are things about broadcasting and thereby reduced. the public likes and dialikes, They know more about adver tising than they did, and they

J. Marschall.-Alarma-An are starting to fully appreciate interesting application of the the meaning of standards and thermionic valve is its use in this THE HUMAN ZCO general co-operation among themselves. To this end a Rado alarm. The rid is connected. patent to operate a fire or burglar Apparatus Bection bas been formed in the Associated Mang-through a high tension battery te a safe, and the flament in facturers of Electrical Supplies, earthed. The anode circuit and we also bave a National includes a relay for operating Radio Chamber of Commerce"

On & rige of *The patent et gle of the radioan alarm

temperature, or on a barg'ar Industry is still somewhat invojv- approaching or touching the ed. One bg patent pool has been rafe, the capacity or -reais. effated, but there are still many tance of the rid circuit is altered. infringements that have not been thereby reducing the snode cur worked out. This pooling of rights rent and allowing the relay to formed a good step forward and

Resent Inventions.

prevented the precipitation of a operate, thus bourding the alarm. C. 8. Goode-Valves-In-a cluster of legal battles similar to

valve having thres vertical these the elretrical Industry ex-

parallel électrodes, meanssuch as perienced years ago

"There are still many logal megnet are rotably mounted wrinkles to be ironed out in theupou the bulb so as to provide an

adjustable magnetic field for con care of smaller corporations in trolling the current in the valve, fringing upon the patent sightsA horse-ahon magnet, may b

laimed to be owned by others,

In fact, there is an independ. Divoted on the pip of the hutb, the ends being level with the middle nt group drawing together

for the purpose of protection of the electrode,

along this line.In the trio- phone field we still have rome

CARL ROSA OPERA vary powerful independent monit facturers who have been able to Von Ncorden, Chairman of the maintain their position only Carl Rosa Opera ompany, staled through research work. The im-in an interview that he had pre provements that have been mande pared a scheme for the reconstru hy their research workers havsion of the Company with a capital thoroughly justified their exist of £10,510. Ha declared that the ence and r. cognition, and no experience, of Jari Tear showed doubt the same state of affairs that an opera in English could be will come to pass in radio..

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