Gillette presents the second game of the 1949 World Series.

This is Mel Allen with Red Barber saying good afternoon for the Gillette Safety Razor

Company as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees warm up.

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Well, of course, this big town and the nation, and even around the world, as they heard,

they broadcast yesterday, as they saw it here.

They're all buzzing over the dramatic suddenness with which yesterday's series opener ended a

breathtaking pitching battle between the

Dodgers dazzling Don Newcomb and the Yankees amazing Allie Reynolds.

They were swinging and missing yesterday.

Newcomb mowed down 11 Yankees, too short of the record set by Howard Emkey.

Reynolds struck out nine Dodgers.

20 in all, too short of the combined record set by Den Danny Gale House and Morton Cooper in the 1944 series. Yes, sir, they were swinging and missing until the last of the ninth inning, when, as Walter Winchell, so aptly put it in his sum up, a great duel that ended with one pistol shot. And it was fired by one of the most remarkable marksmen in recent

baseball history. Maslin, Ohio's gift to the baseball world, currently a resident of Ridgewood, New Jersey,

Tommy Henrik. Let's just look at the record. Tommy Henrik, on opening day, hit a home runoff,

Sid Hudson of the Washington Senators that

won the ball game. It was in the ninth inning,

the last half of the ninth inning, that won the

game for the Yankees. The next day

in the fourth inning, he hit a

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