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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1923.

BASEBALL POINTS.

Arctic Explorer to Keep in Touch with Amateurs. More Questions Answered.

DONALD B. MACMILLAN, AND THE "BOWDOIN, WHICH WILL BE STATION WNE TRANSMITTING FROM THE NORTH FOLE.

The polar sobooner Bowdoin, on which Donald B Mac Millao, famous explorer, will oruise the North Acctio region, is fitted with à special radio set.

Amata rathroughout the United States will have their sets ready to receive the messages which MaoMillan promises to send back from the polar region. He has.

·On-Is it possible for a bata- man to reach frat basé on a foul- fly ball that in caught?!!!!.

Two-Why doesn't the infield By rule apply with a runner ou first base only!

Three-If for some reaso-8 player fails to bat during an en- tire round of the batting order, what happens?

Four-ls there any limit to the distance'a runner can ran in order to avoid a fielder making a play on a batted ball?Y AND Five-If a batsman try his best to dodge a wild pitob, and the ball goes fair, what is the ruling?

ANSWERS..

One-Yes, a batsman can reach first on a foul fly that is caught, if while making such a hit the cacher interferes with him.

-Two-Because there is never a ohance of making a double play, if the batsman will run out his bit as bo supposed to

Three It for some reason bel should fail to hit during an entire round, and the mistake is not properly discovered, the batsman simply takes his regular turn the next time around,"

Four-There is no limit. He [simply must avoid interfering with the fielder, and can run as wide as he desires to do so, before esíd fielder gets his hands on the ball. Five-Under a change of rules definitely agreed to wireless of the Carnegie Institution at made in 1919, it was treated as an news story of 500 words a week, Washington, D. C. MacMillan accident and counted as nothing. conditions permitting.

Besides, will take. pictures of the The majors, however, went back the alert amateur may be able to phenomenon with two cameras 10 to the old ruling shortly after the tune in on other messages flished miles apart, connected by tele. start of 1920, which made such a to Washington reporting the prophone wires.

happening a fair if the bail went fair and foul if foul. grees of the Mac Millan expedition. WNP-Wireless North Pole

Ha was Inside the aurora

is to be an amateur station several times and last in 1921, throughout. At present, Mao-when he was able to copy time| Millan is seeking an adventurous signals from Arlington through ham" who can take care of the it. This was on long waves. Now station and not become blue when he will see whether short waver he finds himself alone with his also will penetrate it. set in the vast open expanses of the north. The American Radio Relay League off sials are helping him and one.

The atation is to work on a wAVO length of between 200 and 300 meters. It is to be equipped with two 50 watt tubes and will have a 500 cycle plate current from & haif kilowatt generator, motor driven from the ship's 39 volt storage battery.

A Lull in Radio. After the first spurt in radio development, the science Reema to have settled down to a matter of distancó aud hook-ups.

BANEFUL PRACTICE.

Cramming" for Exams.

Mr. Wool, the President of the Board of Education, raid recently that no man can rightly be termed, lucated "who seeks to amass information to pass examination",| Yet, there is more to be done to to obtain degrove as stepping improve present apparatus and stones in the process of getting perfect the clengen than has been on Cramming forexaminations, accomplished of Me agree, is a fundamentally The lull in the process of de wrong conception of education Besides sending messages to velopment, like the quiet after a which has been exposed again the amatours in the United storm, does not mean, however, and again and yet there are few States, Mac Millan says he'll that scientiata are resting aftor schools which are free from the transmit a weekly list of the their first successes, Oa the temptation to advertise their ex amateur and other stations be contrary, moro research work is cellenco by the success sabieved hears. That's an incentive to being done nowadays than ever by pupils in public examination:

before.

It is true, no substitute has yet amateurs.

The purpose of the present ex. pedition, according to MacMillan, is to make certain observations of the aurora borealis for the terrestrial magnetism labourstory

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But this is the quiet, plodding been fund at schools or at Univer kind of work which retains itssities, for the examination methot secret until it has accomplish of testing knowledge; and yet all who take education ed something big in the de teachers velopment of the science. When seriously are well aware that the the scientists are ready to an-students, who have made the b.st nounce their next developmente, uan of their time from the point it will be like another wave in of view of mind developinent,.are the advancement of radio. hy no means always those whol "Meanwhile radio fans are got have the knack of displaying all ting their fill of book-ups and their goods in the shop-window of obanges for their receiving and an exsunination paper.

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Yet, ultimately, distance will Schoole examination. It is partly bave little significance in radio a question for the Universities: THE HUMAN ZOO- transmission. Broadcasters will but it is primarily, a question for end their race for the farthest the schools themselves "If head [receiver and devote more atten- masters and head mistrosses tion to the quality of their pro- would stand firmly by their con grams. För broadcasting event-victions, their pupils would not he ually will bagé to be systematized exposed to the depredations of the and even centralized to bring out examiner on the one side, and, on the other, of the driven teacher the best that is in ita

Broadcasting statione in Eng-whose reputation is believed to be land don't try to seek the most at stake Daily Chronicle. -distant receiver possible. Thero,}

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geographic areas and a station! The answer is:As the two-

provided for each.

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stations are under contralized valve amplifier is run from a separate high-tension battery, sea government control,

what happens when the negative In America "the plan is to establish a central broadcasting of this battery in connected to atation from which concerts would arth. If this falls try reversing go out to auxiliary stations in the connections to the primary in-portant centres. Thus one good windings of the transformers, one programme could be heard at the at a time. It is worth trying to same time throughout the country. Parth the iron cores of the trans formers. If the above suggestions A Query Answered, fail to stop the howling, die

connect the wladings of the A correspondeat writeB

to secondary transformer from the Popular Wireless Weekly.

as low-tension negative, or positive, follows:-I bave a three-valve as the case may be, and connect set, one detector and two low-them to the negative pole of « frequency amplifiers, When Ifour and a half volt pocket-lamp switch on the two valve amplifier battery. Connect the positive" of} it becomes very sofsy, and sets this pocket-lamp battery to the up a bowl which I cannot prevent negative of the low-tension unless I reduce my high tension battery. In this manner the grids current to practically nil This are always given a fairly strong stops the howling, but signala die negative potential, which should away. How can I prevent this? certainly prevent the amplifier I am using separate high-tension from breaking into continual self- batteries.

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