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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1. 1923,

BASEBALL POINTS.

More Queries Auswered.

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LATEST 4848-Honeymoon Chimes Dreamy Lotus Land

4855-Seduction

Electric Girl

4888-Morning will Come

Little Rover

4850 Honolulu Nights

Who's Borry Now?

4862 Louisville Lou."

Henpecked Bines

4863-Keep it under your Hat

Oh! Harold

+

4966-Yes! We have no Bananas

HITS!

...E Waliz

I've got the Ain't Got Nothing Blues

4867-Lonesome Journey Blues

When the Jazz Band Starts to Play

4869-Beside a Bubbling Brook

Blue Hoosier Blues

4861-Barbey Goodis

Nothing But

4833-Souvenir

Eumoresque

4838-La La

Gladioli

4831-America

The Star Spangled Banner 4835-The Red, White and Bine

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Fox Trot.

Fox Trot.

Fox Trot.

Fox Trot.

Vox Trot.

Fox Trot.

For Trot.

Fox Trot.

Fox Trot:

Fox Trot.

Fox Trat,

Fox Trot."

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Interesting Invention by

Hungarian.

DENES MIHALY AT THE REPRODUCER OF HIS "TEEÑOR:"

When it has

opaque

"QUESTIONS.

One-Can the pitcher get on the rubber without baving the ball in his possession ?

Two-When a balk is called what are the rights of a base rug- ner? Can a runner score from

Three-when a felder is maki Inga play on a battled ball, who has the right of way, flelder on base runner?

Four-If a pitcher with runner on first starts to deliver the ball to the batsman and it accidentally drops to the ground" what is the proper ruling ?

Five-Bas a pitcher the right to anap the ball to any base the without first stopping in direction of that base↑ ..

ANSWERS.

One The pitcher commits & balk when he gets on the rubber wit out having the ball in his possession,

Two All base runners have the right to advance one base. when balk is called. A tudner third most certainly has the right to score.

"Blind Spots." Gradually radib is closing in on the impossible.

Broadcasting was not long too evercome the final obstacle, radio progress in Great Britain before

Three-The fielder always haa will have brought to the ken of the authorities became aware off

the right of way when making bumanity anch nowaday "{00-

curious phenomenon—namely,

play on a batted ball. The baso possible" feats as seeing at that there were certain places in runner must avoid a collision or distanco and through

this country which, for one reason be called out for so doing, objects. feeling the presence of or another, it seemed impossible

Four-The dropping of the ball the unacen, bearing the slightest to reach by means of wireless constitutes a failure to deliver sounds, and so on.

signals. These became known as the ball to the batsman, and must A step toward this ultimate

blind spots. There were other be regarded as a halk even goal is an instrument called the symptoms of the same problem is though it was accidental. Rünner "Telehor" invented by Danes the fading" of signals, and in a first advances to second. Mihaly. 28-year-old chief engineer the fact that certain localities. Five-A pitcher has no right of the Budapest telephone works pay, fifty miles from London to snap the ball to any base up- in Hungary. According to this beard with better effect the New less he steps directly toward such youthful inventor, his machine

problem.

throw..

!!

BUSES IN THE TROPICS.

seca at any distance, not photo le programme. considerably base in the act of making such farther away, then they could graping the object or action seen,

hear the London programme. but reproducing it on a screen as There were endless variations of in a film studio.

The Telahor consists of a re-what appeared one and the same ceiver and a reproducer. The re- coivar is placed at the scene of action and the reproducer where over the spectators may be. Both may be connected by wire or wireless.

In less than one-tenth of a second, explains Mihaly, the object Beons through a movie camera--by the receiver, is reproduced on the screen of the reproducer. Still or moving, the object is shown to the spectators

The Radio Research Board of the Department of Scientific and

Industrial

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A. E. C. in Mexico City. British manufacturers of motor. omnibuses are rapidly increasing their experience of the requira. ments of countries the climatio conditions of which are very dif- ferent from those prevalent in England. So far as chassis are concerned, only comparatively slight modifications; are. found necessary on certain occasions, and, as a rule, chassis suitable for

Research consider that the phenomena are worth careful investigation, and thes setting an inquiry on re foot in which they invite the co-operation of all who interested in radio telegraphy and telephony, especially the amateure who posseses experimental licen ces. The observers will describe the local surroundings, of their Greater even than this-and statione, whether town, country what it promises to be--will ba hill, or valley, and if they are Londen and other big towns in the invention that can discern situated near any large metallic Great Britain are equally suitable the slightest sound or movement, masses, trees, buildings, &c, they in cities elsewhere. Among the at any distance. For, with the are required to state the distance most recent example of the adop application of such instruments, from them. A description of the tion of British vehicles in other receiving apparatus will, of course, countries is that of Mexico City, also be necessary.

miles away.

are

NOW

secrecy and underhanded plomacy among nations could

A theory which is widely held where six AEC, omgibuses

being

into put not exist for long.

Bervice. Thess are of the can be heard from one nation, governing factor in this problem. provincial Model 4 or "S" type,

Just as broadcasting stations is that, the wave-length is a across the It is a fact that amateurs who are to another even Atlantic-because of their trom- troubled with "fading" in the but are mounted on pneumatic endous power, stations with reception of British signals have res, the dimensions of which extremely short wave lengths and little or no trouble where there 1,185 by 185 mar A-spare. low power ought to be discerned longer wave-lengths of Paris.and wheel with tyre is carried in a The Hague are concerned. It locker at the rear of the omnibus, by powerful receiving sets.

an interesting investigation, how A mechanical tyre pump is

provided, together with automatic. detonator device, ever, and if the cause of the

fading" is established we shall which warns the driver im- be well on the way to removing mediately if the air in any tyre falls below the proper working disconcerting characteristic British "wireless."

pressure. Lathis case the tyre can be inflated by the pump in a very short period, the full in- The Detroit Welfare League Astion of a flat tyre occupying has set an enviable example inits only one minute. programme to supply every blind The electrical equipment fa

The only obstacle to discover- ing such secret methods of radio communication may be their use of extremely complicated code systems, such as have already been invented and applied. Yet radio promises the achievement of so many hitherto impossible wonders, that even the decoding of such system may not be placed beyond its scope.

That is for use after war bas begun. The real benefit of radio came through its tite as war

preventive, as a means toward bringing nationalities together in a more amicable relationship.

This is boing, brought about

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seated

tbus space being engine, economized. The result of this Leviathan Wireless,

without arrangement is that, Progress toward this sort of

The Braides baving what may be unduly long wheelbase or over- relationship is rapid. western hemisphere is bound to the greatest radio outfit in the

accommodate gether by radio, as well as its shipping world, the newly out bag, the single deck body can Pan-American agreements. And fitted ocean liner Leviathan bas passer gers. Doors are provided now Europe is taking up popular two motor driven lifeboats equip on the near side, both at the ped. with radio apparatue. The front and at the rear of the radio in the same way.

England, France, Germany, ship's outfit can communicate vehicle, so that if one door is used Holland and Scandinavia have with points as far as 3,000 miles regularly for entrance and the been broadcasting music and off. lecteres under certain con

Mail Stations.

other for exit the least possible: delay is experienced at stopp.ng points.

ditione, not 25 freely as The US. Air Mail Service is The engine is of 35 hp, here, but with promise to ward greator popularity. Now being regulated through 16 radio and is fitted Italy has decided to take up stations at principal points in the broadcasting, although under similar restrictions as exist in Germany and the other European countries.

Radio cannot be confined to a

single nation, and so the people

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"WALKER BEWARE".

with magneto ignition, pump-water circulation,

··and: pomp and through lubrication system. The drive to the rear axle is through under- elung wormgear,

The vehicles have been shipped Walker Beware. No walk in waterproofed cases to Yera

of one country, will be able to near the scaffolding Take care Cruz, whence they proceed by This rail same 500 miles to Mexico enjoy the productions of another, your head and clothes,"

to learn about the other nations kindly admonition roughly print-City. In preparing the chassis around them and to understanded on a board was placed on for service full account has, of either end of a building in Shang-course, been taken of the fact that them better

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6,000 fost above sea level.

Copyright 1923

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