Now here are the Detroit and Chicago batting orders as we come up to just a few moments before the start of the thrilling seventh and final game of this Frank 45 series.

For Detroit, here's the batting order. The lead off hitter as usual will be the shortstop, Jimmy Webb.

Batting number two will be the second baseman, Eddie Mayo. Batting third will be the center fielder, Roger Kramer, C-R-A-M-E-R.

Batting fourth will be Big Captain Hank Greenberg, the left-fielder.

Batting fifth will be Roy Cullenbine, the right fielder.

Batting number six, will be Rudolph York, the first baseman.

Batting number seven, Jimmy Outlaw, the third basement. Batting number eight, Paul Richards, the veteran satcher. And batting ninth, young Prince Powell Newhauser, the talent at Lefty, who was the Detroit boy all the way. So there is the batting order for the Detroit Tigers. For the home standing and in battle Chicago Cubs, they will batten this order.

The lead-off hitter will be Stanley Hacks, the third baseman, who is the hitting star of the series up to this point.

Batting number two for Chicago, second baseman, Don Johnson.

Fighting third, left-fielder, Perry Lowry, LOWR-E-Y.

Writing fourth, the star first baseman, Phil Cavilletta, Chicago Boy, all the way. Batting number five, center fielder, Andy P-A-F-O. Batting six, the big right-fielder, Bill Nicholson, N-C-H-O-L-S-O-N. Batting number seven, the redoubtable catcher, Mickey Livingston. Batting number eight, the veteran shortstop, Roy Hughes.

And batting number ninth in the 1945 series,

Fordham Hank Broy, the New Jersey Ate who is just now

completing his warm-up pitches down in front of the Cubs dugout down the third baseline.

Here are the umpires, Archpacarello Paterella of the American League at the plate, Jack O'Conlin of the National League at first, Billy Summers of the American League at second, and Lou Jodagh of the National League of the Third. Now that's the way the scene is set at this particular moment, and while we're waiting for the umpires to come to home place, to confer with the rival managers, Jolly Sholly Grimm, and South Steve O'Neill.

We're going to pause, thank you. and while we're waiting for the umpires to come to home place to confer with the rival managers jolly

jolly grimm and south steve o'neill we're going to pause 10 seconds here for station identification

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this is the mutual broadcasting system.

This is WGN, Chicago, serving the middle west.

In the huddle between representatives of the two clubs and the umpires, now going on down at home place, which is, of course, always the part of the last moment before a game begins. Phil Cabaretta, the flying captain of the Chicago Cubs, is representing Chicago, and Steve O'Neill, representing the Detroit Tigers. Now the umpires are fanning out. Incidentally, the alternate umpires here are Charlie Barry of the American League and Lee Ballant of the National League.

They just dressed into them the dugouts every day and it's a very sweet job.

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