WNYC History; Radio sportscaster Stan Lomax, 88.
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- OBITUARIES Radio Sportscaster Stan Lomax, 88 By Dominic Bencivenga NEWSDAY Henry Stanley Lomax, a New York sportscaster whose radio career stretched from the days of Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth to those of Muhammad Ali and Reggie Jackson, died of heart failure on Friday at the Cedar Manor Nursing Facility in Ossining. He was 88. Known to sports fans as Stan Lomax, he was with WOR Radio from 1932 to 1976. He later worked for WBAI and WNYC. Before broadcasting, he had worked as a reporter for the Bronx Home News and the New York Journal-American. Mr. Lomax will be best remembered for his love of amateur athletics, said his son, Charles. "I took him to a Yale-Cornell football game in November, and he relished it," he said. "There were lots of mistakes made on both sides, but that's how he thought it should be. He saw athletics as a step in developing the all-around person. He felt it should be kept in proper perspective, as a growth factor. He hated to see athletes used for their ability by schools and not shown the academic side." In his nightly 15-minute radio sports reports, Mr. Lomax always made time to promote the local amateur teams. "He reported scores that nobody else would report. . ." to reinforce the amateur athletes and give them a chance at some recognition," Charles Lomax said. His long career provided Mr. Lomax with a wealth of stories. Among his favorites were the early days of professional hockey in New York, when people would attend games dressed in tuxedos and not know how the game was played or why players were fighting on the ice. He would also tell of the 1923 boxing match in which Luis Firpo knocked Jack Dempsey out of the ring. Dempsey landed on a reporter's typewriter, which later was sold for a handsome sum. "He used to laugh and wish that he could have sold one of the many typewriters of his that boxers broke when they landed on them," his son said. Mr. Lomax was president of the Sports Broadcasters Association and the Baseball Writers Association, and a member of the New York Racing Writers Association. A Pittsburgh native, he attended St. Paul's School in Garden City, and graduated from Cornell University. He lived in Manhasset from 1937 to 1948, when he moved to Garden City, where he lived until he entered the nursing home last year. He is survived by his son, a daughter-in-law and two grandchildren, all of Mt. Kisco. A funeral mass is to be said at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City. Burial will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Bedford Christian School Bedford, N.Y.
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- Copy of article in Archives Storage 4D under "WNYC Obituaries"
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Publisher: Newsday (Hempstead, N.Y.)
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Identifier: 70122.1 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
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- Chicago: “WNYC History; Radio sportscaster Stan Lomax, 88.,” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 8, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-19s1s78g.
- MLA: “WNYC History; Radio sportscaster Stan Lomax, 88..” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 8, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-19s1s78g>.
- APA: WNYC History; Radio sportscaster Stan Lomax, 88.. Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-19s1s78g