NBC transmitter (Jan-Dec 1938)

6 NBC TRANSMITTER ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES NBC Nine Beats RKO Baring their creaking joints to the blustery winds of Washington Heights, the NBC baseball team inaugurated the Motion Picture Baseball League with a win of 6 to 4 over the RKO nine on April 25. Behind the masterful pitching of Jim Von Frank the team managed to give four opposing pitchers the blues. Von Frank allowed only one hit and three walks in the five-inning twilight game. He pitched ten strike-outs. The first inning opened with NBC scoring two runs. In the second they gathered one and in the third, with two men on base. Bill Hannah slammed out a triple to bring in two men, Hannah coming in on a hit by A1 W illiams. In the first three innings only eleven men faced Von Frank. Every man on the squad made at least one hit which certainly looks good for the NBC team, considering the fact that no practice preceded the game. Going into the fifth and with one man on base the RKO boys, through a series of errors, made three runs before Von Frank could stop the carnage. At this time the players were playing in the dark so the game had to be called. Starting line-up for NBC: Frank Crowley (Guest Relations) • -2b Ed Nathan (Guest Relations) •••• 3b Capt. Jack Wahlstrom (G.R.) --cf Pete Bonardi (Guest Relations) • • lb Jim Cody (Accounting) Bill Hannah (Duplicating) c A1 Williams (General Service) • • ss Jim Shellman (Announcing) rf Jim Von Frank (Guest Relations) • • P NBC replacements: Allan Henderson (Mail Room) 3b Hugo Seiler (Mail Room) • • If Joe Baricak (Guest Relations) cf A. A. Bowling League The 1937-38 season for the NBC Athletic Association Bowling League came to a close on Wednesday night, April 27, at the Pythian Temple in New York when the four participating teams played their final meet in the second series, which was won by the team captained by Henry Hayes of the General Service Department (see cut). Hayes’ team placed third in the first series of the season, which was headed by Steere Mathews’ team. As we go to press two teams are being picked from the A. A. bowlers to play against the two NBC teams which have been competing in the Rockefeller Center Bowling League. The standing of the teams in the order of their final scores is as follows: Chairmen Elected At the last meeting of the members of the Athletic Association, held in Studio 8-H on May 2, all the 1937 chairmen of the various committees in charge of different sports and activities were reelected for another year with the exception of three chairmen who were elected or reelected at the April meeting. Vacancies in chairmanships were also filled. The following are the chairmen who were re-elected: Jack Wahlstrom (G. Relations) Baseball Suzanne Cretinon (Sales) Gym-Women Team (by captains) Won Lost Harvey Gannon ( Program) —Gym— Men Albert Grenshaw (Executive Off. 1 Basket H. Hayes 19 8 ball D. G. Wallace 15 12 E. M. Lowell (Gen. Service) • • • Bridge S. Mathew 14 13 Jack Mills (Guest Relations) Ping Pong C. H. Thurman • • • 6 22 Helen W inter (Treasurers) Skating Katherine Hoffmeir (Sales) Badminton The honors for the three-game series Women high went to A1 Frey with the total of 583. Single-game high score* of 222 was taken by J. S. LaTouche. The members of the Wednesday night group who have had outstanding scores of 200 or over during the season are A1 Frey of the Mail Room; J. S. LaTouche, chief telegraph operator; Henry Hayes, General Service; Coulson Squires, Central Supply; Anthony M. Hennig. Treasurers Office; Thomas J. Dolan, Traffic; and Charles H. Thurman, manager of Guest Relations. Thf. Winners of the Second Series of the NBC Bowling Leaciie. Front, left to right: Joseph Hogan. Henry Hayes, George Luther. Back: Howard Selger, A1 Frey and Martin Devine. John Gasko is also a member of the team, all of whose members are in the General Service Department. Lee B. Wailes (M&O Stations) BadmintonMen A. Frank Jones (Artists Service) Golf Ashton Dunn (Personnel) —Membership (Selma Wickers, Program, and C. H. Thurman, manager of Guest Relations, are also on the Membership Committee) Henry Hayes of General Service was elected to a vacancy in the Social Committee, resulting from the resignation of Grace Sniffin. Dwight G. Wallace, personnel manager, was elected chairman for the handball group; Donald H. Castle, engineer, was elected to head the rifle and pistol shooting group and Don Meissner of Artists Service was appointed chairman for swimming activities. Those interested in swimming were not present to elect a chairman for their group. It also was decided at the meeting that, henceforth, twenty-five instead of thirty persons shall constitute a quorum. Those elected to chairmanships in the April meeting were George 0. Milne, Eastern Division Engineer, for bowling; Serge A. de Somov, Engineering, for tennis, and D. B. Van Houten, Building Maintenance, for horseback riding. (Continued on Page 18)