Newsday (Suffolk Edition) from Melville, New York • 181

5 (he ffiQfvin liftman hoixi00 Chess bored THE ORIGINAL MAKE IS BACKI RRGELR LRflSBURV I 'racraating bar original Broadway rola' AS ntflnfE Opens Tues July 18-23 WO 0KLV: (515) 333-2533 Sisops: (515)333-2101 or 333-2514 044-4400 Vjg WESTBURY i1 muolc lair JULY 24 -30 TEmPTRTIOnS A rumor making the rounds in broadcasting Tuesday morning said that Shelby Lyman the play-by-play announcer of Ch terrific public service cover COMISG MM SUPREmES age of the Fischer-Spassky championship chess match had disappeared mysteriously Another wild story said Lyman would refuse to Aow up at the studio as scheduled because he had a pathological fear of riding the subway He was also reported to be unhappy about the honorarium Ch paying him and he was demanding a per- i SAVON AUTOMOTIVE UNLIMITED SO OYSTER BAY RDHICKSVIUE WE 57400 ff- OPEN WEEKDAYS TILL 9 tilic 4 AC er CHAMPION OIL TREATMENT 59 Nik centage of the money WNET viewers were donating to pay for the unprece 79 each are reminiscent of the Lie ticker-tape simulations of out-cf-town baseball games on radio minus the cheering crowd noises In chess silence is golden Shelby Lyman every chess day 1 to 4 PM is simulating the action cff-the-floor where the assembled masses are kibitzing the game On one board in the studio the play-by-play announcer posts the moves (relayed in some possibly illegal way from the floor to the Marshall Chess Club and then to Ch 13 by phone) Then the color man also played by Shelby Lyman in real life a chess mas ter explains what happened at the analysis board Fischer play the Lyman asks after the first play Tuesday moving pieces with razzle-dazzle fancy fingerwork that took this viewers breath away go down the path that made him lose his last two games to masterful kibitzing is already being credited for increasing the audience for chess from dozens to hundreds According to Ch 13 its phones were tied up by hundreds of viewers many of whom disagreed with expert analyses what makes chess matches If the game is ever going to become as spectacular as all the advance publicity there are those who think it needs a certain presence or excitement or something to carry it over tire 40 moves-a-day every other day for the next two months on TV A more visual presentation is a firet step Instead of the inanimate method in use they say Bobby moves in the studio could be made by that noted chess-player Steve McQueen A more photogenic sit-in for Boris Spassky would be Ann-Margret wearing her old dress from But I think a wonderful maturing experience for television to put on with undue embellishment a thinking qport This truly intellectual pursuit may eventually gain recognition as the mast boring event in public TV history (a litle presently held by the last hearings on municipal government reorganization) Nevertheless Ch 13 deserves credit for its courage The door is now open for a bocci tournament on TV SnulNO WHEEL COVER Perforated Leather Look dented TV At 1 PM with the literally dozens of chess fans in die New York metropolitan area holding their breaths Ch coverage went on the air Shelby Lyman the dean of TV chess reporters was in the studio The rumors had been unfounded The recreation of the chess match of the century was finally on 51 KEEP COOL RADIATOR TREATMENT 59 i AH Sale Prices Good Through July 15 1772 P-Q4 N-KB3" said it all about the game that everybody has been anticipating It wag chess at its finest But for all the new chess fans created by the one never realized there was such a wide interest in chess the game itself must have been something of an anticlimax His was after all chess not International diplomacy or war Chess is not a very visual sport on TV It very exciting on radio either In the opening match Tuesday there was no instant replays of the great moves Nor were they shown again in slow-motion or on the isolated cameras (Perhaps those techniques will be used when ABC Sports presents its coverage of the actual event in Iceland on Saturday) Ch recreations of the Wildly popular matches in Reykjavik Lyman observed only show in C- I i i jr i I i 4l Jfr I I Jl 1 I i I- SAL OVER 1000 FIRST QUALITY BR0ADL00M ROLL BALANCES REMNANTS Reporter Jane Flanner c-f the New Yorker WEVD: Ruth Jacohs Show Interview! and talk WOR: Arlene Francis "Pregnancy Note- by Marcia Colman Morton 1:50 WNBC: Pack at the Track Brief racing results till 5:50 PM 5:25 WOR: Margaret Train an Vacation AT SAVINGS OF Concerto (Garbousova Waldman) (Stereo) WVNJ: Curtain Time Flcrello! (Steieo) WOR: Jee Franklin Ex-Cons Get an Even WQXR: Vocal Scene Historical interpretations of Verdi's Otello (TBmagno Caruso Melchior Buffo Granforte Lemnilz Muzio and others (Stereo) WEVD: Talk by Larry Collins and Dominique LaFierre lliM-WKVO: Spoken Words John Ash berry reads his WOR: Barry Farher At the Democratic Convention WHOA Saperfecta Results from Roosevelt (Time approx) WNYC: While the City Steps An Alpine Symphony (Kempel String Quartet No 15 (Budapest Quartet) Carmine Burana Janowitz Stclze Fischer-Dieskau Jochum) Monn's Cello Concerto (du Fre Barbirolli) WQXR: Midnight Concert Works by Saint-Saens Albania Dillersdorf Mozart Sehuman (Stereo) Friday 5:00 AM WGL1: Open Line Telephone (ttscwsicne WOR: Martha Deane rodioDD Thursday Evening 5:0 U11RF WRON-FM (1435): Oldtime Radio WQXR: Concert Mlada: Procession of the Nobles (Fiedler) Wagner's Die Walkuere: Aria (Flagstad Xnappertsbuscti) Stravinsky's The Firebird: Sxcerpt (Milstein Susskind) Carmen Suite (Munch) (Stereo) NYC: Masterwork Hour Handel's Concerto Grosso No 3 (Leopard) CtP EL Flute Concerto (Delius Marschner) Symphony No 2 (Abbado) (Stereo) WNCXi Concert Schelomo (Nelsova Ahravanel) Quartet No 3 (Edinburgh Quartet) (Stereo) 1:00 WCBS WINS WOR WNBC: Democratic Convention Live coverage of the balloting for the vice presidential nominee and acceptance speeches of the candidates Also WBVI at 9:00 PM WQXR: Concert Symphonic Fantasy (Krueger) Barber's Cello Thursday July 13 1972 GOA -T.