| Show S Rain Cant Win This Way WayBy By JACK MAHON MAhiON I NEW YORK YORK Aug 22 1 INS INS INS- Do yO you think it will rain a week i from today No were we're were we're not daffy daf dat- fy we fy-we we have a guy who will let you know This guy began playing around with the weather forecasting gag p. p 4 a about bo u t t three h r e r t X years ago as asio io f 1 something of a 1 hobby The hobS hobby hobt hob hob- i I it by has boomed S t S Into a very lu luJ lucrative lutr lu- lu tr J business S 'S L U S 41 t and today from his office out in 1 L. t Pasadena C Cal I. I V- V iu Dr Irving Kriek KriekS I S S directs the destinies destinies des des- des des- 5 of your you fa favorite favorite favorite fa- fa bas baseball ball Jack Mahon team Krick tells the Brooklyn Dodgers ers Boston Bees and Red So Sox the Ch Chicago White Sox St. St t. t Louis Louls Browns the Clevel Cleveland nd Indians and the Philadelphia Athletics Athletic when to expect rain bad ad Winds hail and what not saving them thousands of dollars in operating operating operating ing expenses ann annually ally and often enabling them to pick up a tidy profit via rain insurance For example the I D Dodgers dg rs had hada a header double-header scheduled July 4 with their bitter rivals the Giants President Larry MacPhail MacPhail Mac Mac- Phail wired Krick asking how the weather looked for that date Kricks Krick's service consists of a wired forecast eight days in advance and when he told Larry it would rain on the holiday the Brooklyn I boss took out of rain in in- in- in This cost him 1000 but when Krick hit the nail orthe on or the head Larry picked up upa a check for 10 Gs And he wont won't lose anything on attendance for hes he's playing both canceled games a apart as part of newly scheduled double- double headers h Rain insurance costs 10 per cent ceni of o f the amount issued The raInfall rainfall rain raIn- f fall all must measure at least one one- t tenth of an inch at the site you yot I sn s select elect and during the hours you yot n name ame Krick has often told baseball base baS b ball baU all men that rain would fall it in 1 t their heir city but not necessarily in inthe the he t neighborhood of their ball p park ark Some of these moguls promptly p took out insurance s specifying a certain locality collected collected col col- l and also played their ball g game ame Dr Krick is a meteorologist at athe atthe the he t California Institute of Technology Tech Tech- n He HI fi first st shot into prominence promInence n nence ence giving forecasts for the university university uni uni- v of Southern California f football team His reports were s so o accurate during the 1938 season sea sea- ion son 1 that h has been r retained each f fall f all I and nd also do does s the same work f for or U UCLA C LA He entered organized baseball Jast l ast summer scoring seven s Straight for Owner De Dewitt De- De Dewitt witt of ot the Browns The White Sox soon picked him up and arid when h his is lame fame spread MacPhail hired h hs him im to work on the Dodgers' Dodgers schedule s this summer His forecasts forecasts fore fore- c casts have been 90 per cent correct correct cor cor- r on six tries so far All Sunday holiday and night g games ames are big box office attractions attractions t ions and it is for these that the s services of this one-man one weather bureau b are usually solicited ol cited Dr Kricks Krick's fee is per prediction prediction t tion ion and each forecast is accompanied accompanied p by a rating indicating how s sure ure Krick is the prediction willbe wille will willbe b be e accurate The higher the rating rating rat rat- i ing ng the more insurance the boys buy |
