BLOW FOR BLOW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 4, 12 August 1927, Page 11

BLOW FOR BLOW

DEMPSEY v. SHARKEY FIGHT DESCRIBED BY RADIO. New Zealanders who were interested in the great battle between Dempsey and Sharkey will envy the millions of Americans who heard the ringside description of the fight described by radio broadcasting. The San Francisco ‘‘News" and 26 other Scripps-Howard newspapers ayranged with the National Broadcasting Company to broadcast the boxing. match at New York between Jack Dempsey, former world’s champion, and Jack Sharkey, a strong contender, on July, 21, to decide who should attempt to wrest the championship from Gene Tunney. Thirty-seven stations were linked up by land-lines in the chain. It was the most extensive boxing hook-up in the history of radio. Two nationally-known NBC at nouncers described the contest for the millions of listeners. One was Gra ham McName, famous for his microphonic pictures of the country’s premier athletic events, who gave the .blow-bv-blow description, while ig mate, Phillips Carlin, manager of WEAF, New York, gave listeners a resume of each round, in addition to furnishing interesting sidelights of the fighters, the crowd and other notes,