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Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, Gillette presents the World Series.

Good afternoon, baseball fans everywhere.

This is Mel Allen with Jim Britt, greeting you for the Gillette Safety Razor Company

as the Boston Braves and Cleveland Indians warm up for the fifth game in this great

championship series.

Gillette is on the air the year-round with on-the-spot broadcasts of leading sports events.

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

In this 1948 World Series, ladies and gentlemen, tribal warfare, it appears in this tribal

warfare that the Clevelands have the Indian sign on their embattled brethren,

the Braves, and with it, most experts figure a bright chance of smoking the peace pipe,

long about two hours or so from now, because that's all there'll be left to do

if the Cleveland's continue to keep the Boston's pinned up on

the reservation, so to speak. However, the Boston's chief medicine man hopes that he's

come up with a proper potion today that will send the Cleveland's fleeing back to the banks

of the Charles River, where the Braves figure to be more powerful in their own wigwam.

Although Cleveland leads in the series,

three games to one,

and needs but today's victory to capture the classic,

their superiority is not so great

when seen from the standpoint of cold figures,

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