This is Jim Witt with Mel Allen saying good afternoon for the Gillette Safety Razor Company

as the Cleveland Indians and Boston Braves.

Gillette is your radio host at Leading Sports to gear around.

Over various networks, Gillette's cavalcade of sports airs attractions of national interest

as they occur time to time.

Every Friday night, Gillette also broadcast the major boxing match of the week,

blow-by-blow, or fans go to go.

Weather-wise, today comes more nearly to the forecast of yesterday.

It's gray, cloudy, overcast, cool, with a threat of rain.

Not the perfect baseball day that attended yesterday's opener.

Yesterday, as history has already recorded,

the Boston Braves won our one-de-mepping shutout.

Thanks to the support pitching of right-handed John Seine,

the Belleville, Arkansas, and the timely eighth-inning single of Tommy Hall.

Bob Fuller was great, too, but he was luckless.

He became the first pitcher since the Cardinals Mort Cooper to throw a two-hitter in World Series

competition and lose.

And the controversy kicked up by two features of yesterday's opening.

Lasted far, far into the night.

At Hotel Somerset, press headquarters in Boston,

the experts were divided on the tactics employed by manager Lou Boudreau in the eighth inning,

when, with a runner on second, one out,

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