AMERICAN JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2330, 17 September 1921, Page 3

AMERICAN JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE.

“Last year,” said k T. M. WilI'ord, M.P., at. the Eastbourne reception to the All Blacks, at 'Wellington this week, “I saw Dempsey in his training quarters, and had my photograph taken with him, a pholograph which I have not .yet had published.” (Laughter.) .Continuing, Mr Wilford said that Dempsey was not popular in America, the favourite being the Frenchman, Carpentier. When the light actually occurred he was 4,000 miles away from the Stadium. Outside the Examiner office at San Francisco, between 10 and 11 o’clock iri the morning, be listened to the result of a. light at 3 o’clock in the afternoon of the same day, (bis being possible owing to the distance. A huge crowd was told how the tight was progressing by means of a magra box, a wonderful little instrument, which magnifies the human voice so that it cart be heard 300 or 400 yards away from the speaker, who merely uses his natural voice. The same afternoon its the light look place, a photograph of the actual knock-out Wits published in the newspapers. Though separated by over four thousand miles. Yankee hustle overcame the difficulty by means of the telegraph service. A sheet was drawn out with an infinitesimal number of minute squares, each numbered, and a duplicate was retained in the distant newspaper office —Ban Francisco. When the actual knock-out occurred, it was photographed and developed, the squared paper being laid over it, and the two figures, Carpentier lying down and Dempsey looking on, were pricked* out. Then the numbers of the squares pricked were telegraphed immediately, and the pin-pricks reproduced on the duplicate-squar-ed paper, the two boxers’ faces being ent from photographs anf affixed, the whole being reproduced as an illustration in the Examiner the same afternoon as the fight. “It was a wonderful exhibition of American alertness and ingenuity,” concluded Mr M ilford.