The Oh, yeah. Gillette Cavalcate of Sports is on the air. From Wrigley Field in Chicago,

Gillette presents the World Series.

Men look sharp, feel sharp, B sharp,

use Gillette blue blades with the sharpest edges ever honed.

Good afternoon, baseball fans everywhere.

This is Bill Slater with Al Halper and Bill Thoram,

greeting you for the Gillette Safety Razor Company

as the Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers

get ready for the deciding seventh game in this

thrilling 1945 championship series. Gillette is on the air the year round with

on-the-spot reports of leading sports events including the Kentucky Derby football ball games and similar

classics.

Gillette also broadcasts the major boxing match of the week regularly every Friday night.

And now this afternoon in Chicago, on the shores of Lake Michigan, we await breathlessly the start of this seventh and deciding game of the 1945 series, a series that has been at the same time one of the zaniest most thrilling and record smashing series in a long long while.

Records have been broken in total number of players involved, total number of

pinch hitters involved, records smashed in total income, records smashed in the

longest game in the point of time ever played

that 12-inning struggle on Monday and only 36,185 are needed to come into the

stands this afternoon to top the all-time attendance record sat back in

1926 between the yanks and the cards and three pictures have appeared in

this series who the first time out were practically invincible but could not

come through the second time.

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