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From Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, Gillette presents the World Series.

Good afternoon again, baseball fans everywhere.

This is Bill Slater with Al Helper and Bill Corum, greeting you for the Gillette Safety Razor company

as the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cups get ready for their third game in this 1945 championship series.

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Gillette, as you know, is on the air the year round with on-the-spot reports of leading sports events,

including the Kentucky Derby, Football Bowl games, and similar classics. Gillette also broadcast the major boxing match of the week regularly every Friday night. And Gillette is going to broadcast this third game between the Tigers and the Cubs, and it'll be coming up in just a couple of moments. Each team, as you know, has won one game, so this is a rubber game up to this point in the series. The weather has been the big question in Detroit today. It was raining this morning, a slight drizzle. That stopped about an hour ago, and just about 15 minutes ago, the protective tarpaulin was taken from the playing surface of the in the field down here, and although it's a dampish afternoon, with a blue haze settled down over most of this section of Detroit,

obscuring the vision of the skyscrapers in the background and making it hard to follow flyballs out into the deep field in Santa Field, left and right, just the same, I believe the game is going to get itself put into the book this afternoon. And if it does, this is the final day in Detroit, Michigan. There will be an exodus out of the Motor City tonight, and into Chicago will go the delirium of the 1945 World Series.

And the Cubs will put on the white at-home uniforms, and the Tigers, when next we see them tomorrow, will be wearing the traveling gray.

As far as the baseball that has been displayed in the series is concerned, it could be said it's run pretty close to form.

Chicago is known for good pitching, superior speed, offensively and defensively, and steady

hitting. And those were the factors that won the first game for Chicago. Detroit is known

as the possessor of excellent pitching, some pitching stars, and long haul hitters. And those

were the factors that won yesterday's game for Detroit.

So it's true to form at the end of two games with the series all tied up. The question is to who is going to win the series? Well, that will only be decided by events, of course. People go around saying that in 28 out of 40 instances, the team that won the first game goes ahead to win the series. and then they turn around and point out that 10 years ago,

Chicago shut out Detroit in the first game with Lon Warneke doing the pitching. Then Detroit came back and won the second game with Little Tommy Bridges, and Detroit eventually won the series with Bridges pitching that thriller for the fourth victory in the final ball game. So, let's just wait and see. Incidentally, I'd like to say a word about the band that you heard as we came on the air that's been bringing us on the air with Take Me Out to the Ball Game every day. That's Billy Finzel's 45-piece band, and Billy Finzel has happiest band here now for the seventh World Series. In 1907, 8 and 9, way back then when Huey Jennings was the mastermind of the Detroit Tigers,

Billy Finzel had his band out there, and he is up in 43 American League seasons here in Detroit,

with Billy Finzel's band that's good to have them here.

And incidentally, since we shall be leaving Detroit today, I'd like to do a very, very sincere bow to the staff of CKLW, the mutual station

here that has picked up this end of the series, and to their men here in the broadcast book

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