 Gillette's Advocate of Sports is on the air. From Wrigley Field in Chicago, Gillette presents the World Series. Men, look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp. Use Gillette Blue Blades with the sharpest edges ever honed. Good afternoon baseball fans everywhere. This is Bill Slater with our helper and bill form 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 the seventh and deciding game of the 1945 series. A series that has been at the same time one of the zanyest, most thrilling record-smashing series in the long, long while. Records have been broken and the total number of players involved, total number of pinch-ritters involved. Records smashed in total income. Records smashed in the longest game and the point of time ever played that 12-winning struggle on Monday. And only 36,185 are needed to come into the stands this afternoon to top the all-time attendance record set back in 1926 between the Yankees and the Cards. And three pitchers have appeared in this series who the first time out were practically invincible but could not come through the second time. Virgil Trucks, Claude Passeau, Dizzy Trout. And then there's been one pitcher who was no good the first time and came back to win the second time. And that's Hal Newhauser. And he's going to try to repeat today. And then there's been Thornton Hank Baroy who the first time out, yes. The second time, no. And Monday he came through for his second victory and Baroy will be trying to place himself in the immortal halls of baseball by striving for his third victory as he pitches for the Cubs this afternoon. This has been the greatest radio hookup in the sports radio with the broadcast going to Rome, to Berlin, to Tokyo and all around the world wherever the far-flung outposts of American military might exist today. And each team in this series has been better in the other's part than it has been at home. And one-eyed Conley, the world's changing gate pressure hired on as an usher has tried to keep the owner of the park, Joe Wrigley, from coming into his own park. We've had some of the coldest weather in any of the series and yet at the same time some of the most pleasant. Stanley Hack in that thrilling game on Monday, almost a goat with these two arrows and then coming through with four hits out of five to be the hero of the struggle, to drive in the winning one for Chicago in the last and the 12th with two outs. And we've had the spectacle of an arrow being charged against Hank Greenberg in left field and then later in the evening, along about midnight, retracted by the official scores. So in this particular series, one of the most thrilling of all time and the first seven-game series since the Tigers battled the Cincinnati Reds in 1940, we have had absolutely everything in this afternoon is going to be the climax. And now to give you his own inimitable view of what's coming up this afternoon is the great sports columnist and our friend, Phil Corm, looking very sharp today, Bill. Thank you, Bill. And we're right back where we started in Detroit last Wednesday as far as this series goes. Except, of course, that whatever may happen today, saving the remote possibility of a tag game called Because of Darkness, this is payday. Steve O'Neill and Charlie Grimm led with their aces in that first game in Brick Stadium and are going to lead with them again in this seventh and deciding game. Al Newhozer for the Battening Bengals and Hank Baroy for the Clawing Little Bears. Which gives Baroy a chance to tie another World Series record, by the way. If the tall Jersey right-hander should win this afternoon, he will become the second pitcher ever to win three games and lose one in the same series. I think that's true. I wouldn't want to bet all the tea in China on it, even if I had all the tea in China, but I'd believe that grand-pitcher of the Chicago White Sox of many seasons back, Old Urban the Red, favor won three games in the 1917 World Series and lost one. Of course, Matheson, Jack Holmes, the only pitcher beside Baroy ever to win for both leagues, Stan Kovaleski, Babe Adams and Faber all have won three games in one series. But none except Faber ever won three and also lost one. And that will be Baroy's record if he can come through this afternoon. If Newhouse's arm was in good shape, you'd have to give him a distinct edge over Baroy and most any other flinger around the day as well. But we all know that, unfortunately, Bonnie Prince Hell's arm is not in the best possible shape. Indeed, he's expected to have it operated on during the off-season. It's that bad, or so we understand. But the other hand, Newhouse has had one day more rest than Baroy. So the best guess is that like the previous games and the series itself, this decisive one will be a toss-up where anything can happen. And it isn't as if practically everything hasn't already happened. We've had about everything except a triple play, a balk and a wedding at home plate. I was happy to see the official scores change their ruling on Hackset that one Monday's 12 inning thriller. If you happen to be listening then, you know how disconcerted and confused I got trying to get the totals of the game straight in my post-game summary. That was partly because I couldn't find on my card where Detroit had more than one error. It turned out that on Hackset, the first ruling by the official scores, Martin Haley, Ed Burns, Henry Saltzinger and Fred Leib, four of the most competent baseball men around and all eminently fair gentlemen, had been that it was a single for Stan and an error for Hank Greenberg. If it couldn't have been an error for Hank really, the ball bounced completely and cleanly over his head. The ruling would have made him something of a goat for Detroit which he definitely didn't deserve to be. On the contrary, he has been one of old tags staunchest heroes if not these staunchest. It happened that sitting here in the radio booth well down the third base line, Bill Slater who called the play on Hackset and I were both in the perfect position to watch the ball. It took practically a perpendicular hop just before it reached Greenberg's hands which were extended toward it on the ground. By the way, we're so far down the third base line that we're almost passed the big screen back a home plate, which incidentally isn't a screen at all, but a grand bank's fishing net, sent if my memory serves me to the elder Wrigley by some friend for his new and beautiful park here. Anyhow, Slater says that it is a very sane thing to have here, but remember that it and I didn't. Now Baroi's record if it materializes is not the only one that will be tied, set and broken in this game. All sorts of new records will fall, but you've heard most of that from Slater's already. The main thing is the game itself. I hope it will be just half as exciting and post bounding as Monday's sensational Battle Royale and that the better team will win it and the series too of course. It's been a wonderful series even if it hasn't produced the best baseball ever seen by a mighty long shot. The fans have loved it as they should and it's been a real pleasure and privilege for us to bring it to you listeners the best we could, particularly to our boys over and on the seas in the Pacific, Japan, Europe, on their ships and everywhere they are. Which reminds me, Harry Roberts, baseball writer for the Chicago Daily News and a lieutenant in the Navy, brother helper flew in from San Francisco this morning to see the final game and root for the Cubs. He just landed from the carrier Ticonderoga straight from Tokyo and he heard the broadcast of the other games at sea by shortwave and that's that for now fans but I'll be back to give you a quick summary of the highlights when the game ends. Fans, there's little doubt that Americans want a hard piece for those guilty of starting the war but none of us wants a hard piece for the millions of destitute men, women and children in allied countries freed from Axis enslavement. Yet without our help, cruel and bitter times lie ahead for the folks who are still fighting famine, pestilence and cold. One of the chief hopes for their salvation lies in the National War Fund a federation of 19 major relief and welfare agencies. These agencies are over there distributing blankets to people who have shivered for years. Cod liver oil for undernourished children seeds to replant farms medicine to fight plagues and they are doing many other life-saving tests so when you're asked to donate to the National War Fund, dig down deep please. Be generous in victory. Now here are the Detroit and Chicago batting orders as we come up to just a few moments before the start of this thrilling seventh and final game of this Fight 45 series. For Detroit, here is 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 Cramer, 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 baseman. Batting number eight, Paul Richards, the veteran catcher. And batting ninth, young Prince Hal Newhauser, the talented lefty who is 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 bat in this order. The lead off hitter will be Stanley Hack, the third baseman who was the hitting star of the series up to this point. Batting number two for Chicago, second baseman Don Johnson. Batting third, left fielder Harry Lowry, L-O-W-R-E-Y. Batting fourth, the star first baseman, Phil Cabaretta, Chicago boy all the way. Batting number five, center fielder Andy Andy Pathko, P-A-F-K-O. Batting sixth, the big right fielder Bill Nicholson, N-I-C-H-O-L-S-O-L Batting number seven, the redoubtable catcher Mickey Livingston. Batting number eight, the veteran shortstop Roy Hughes and batting number ninth and trying for the Iron Man stunt in the 1945 series Portham Hank Faroy, the New Jersey ice who is just now completing his warm-up pitches down in front of the club dugout down the third baseline. Here are the umpires, Art Pasarello of the American League at the plate, Jaco Conlon of the American League at second, and Lou Jota of the National League at third. That's the way the scene is set at this particular moment and while we're waiting for the umpires to come to home plate to confer with the rival managers Jolly Cholly Grimm and Stout Steve O'Neill, we're going to pause 10 seconds here for station identification. Remember man, look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp. Use Gillette blue blades with the sharpest edges ever honed. This is the Mutual Broadcasting and Chicago serving the middle west. In the huddle between representatives of the two clubs and the umpires now going on down at home plate which is of course always the part of the last moments before a game begins, Phil Cabaretta the playing captain of the Chicago clubs is representing Chicago and Steve O'Neill representing the Detroit Tigers. Now the umpires are fanning out. Incidentally the umpires here are Charlie Berry of the American League and Lee Ballin fan of the National League. They just dress up and the umpire is moving down to third base now where he's going to coach and the Chicago team is coming on the field. Art Mills will coach it first for the Detroit Tigers and now with the Cubs out on the field in their proper defensive order the whole crowd and it's a throng rises to its feet, heads are bared, hands snap and with right hand salute on the part of the military personnel here and Armand Hans van plays the national anthem. And now is the most glorious flag that ever rode was the flag of the United States United Nations on its right and on its left. Everything is all set for the start of the seventh and deciding game of this great 45 series and all set looking very sharp and feeling very sharp is our colleague on these broadcasts who will bring you the first four and a half innings of play big handsome Al Halper. Well thanks Bill good afternoon ladies and gentlemen rather chilly here in Chicago as Bill has already told you this afternoon but nevertheless we're expecting a second world series that Gillette has brought you it goes down to the seventh and final game of the entire series and I think that Ed Wilhelm who was sitting over here to our left is probably just as anxious as everyone else here in the stands and in the radio booth to see this ball game get underway. Also very anxious this afternoon is Hank Baroi I talked to the Fordham ghost just before the ball game started and he wants this one and actually so does Hal Neuhauser. We spoke briefly with him too just before we came up from the playing field up to the radio booth and these two pitchers will be out there and as the boys in the trade say they'll be bowing their neck this afternoon to try to get this final win to put their team up on top. The umpires as given you by Bill Slater are correct Pasarelli at the plate, Conlon at first Summers at second and Jordan at third the Lannops is giving you by Bill are intact also and we should like to pass this on at the start of this ball game that the Chicago Cubs as far as batting is concerned are out hitting the Detroit Tigers with a team percentage as they field right now of 288 while the Detroit Tigers have a percentage of 202 and Skeeter Webb who is hitting at 174 the Detroit shortstop is standing in right now hitting right handed Roy pitches him and it's taken on the inside for ball one so this ball game the seventh and final game in the 1945 World Series is now gotten underway here at Wrigley Field in Chicago Roy throws again and there's a high curve on the outside for ball two so Hacke has gotten behind now to the Detroit shortstop two balls no strikes the outfield playing straight away and not very deep on Skeeter Webb Roy throws another curve in there that's good for strike and now it's two and one Webb has had four hits in 23 at bats here in the World Series of 1945 he takes the next pitch and it's right through the middle for a ball strike and that's two and two plus two strikes the first hitter up for Detroit here in the very top half of the first inning Roy kicks twists throws a high curve and almost got away from Livingston that's ball three to Skeeter Webb three and two Hacke-Broy on the mound for Chicago his battery mate is Mickey Livingston Roy throws three and two Webb swings on it there's a clean base hit through the hole between first and second and into right field Skeeter Webb opens the top of the first inning with a single to right field that incidentally in the series is hit number 19 off Baroy hit number one off him this afternoon the batter now hitting a 217 is second baseman Eddie Mayo of Detroit he hits left handed and is opening his stance more of late he pulls that right foot down toward first base sort of guards the plate slightly from behind Baroy checks his runner at first throws to the plate Mayo swings on it there's another clean base hit right through the hole into right field Skeeter Webb is coming off second base there's Nicholson throw into third but it's not nearly in time with the hit and run on Webb moves into third bases Mayo singles behind him in the right field that's hit number two off Baroy and that's the 20th base hit he's given up here in a 1945 World Series and Paul Derringer starts hurriedly to get ready down in the Chicago bullpen so big Paul Derringer is starting to throw very rapidly runners at first and third for Detroit no outs and here is Doc Kramer who is tied for the number four spot in hitting honors a barley back layers playing in the series he's hitting at 333 as is captain Hank Greenberg but Kramer hitting left handed is up there now there's a quick throw to first base just to keep Mayo close Cavalry returns that ball to the mound Baroy is ready checks the plate throws to the plate there's a little curve on the outside Doc Kramer for ball one there are no strikes this is the top of the first inning and the third Tigers are threatened Roy checks the runner at first now at third then throws a high curve in there that's flew out into short left field it may fall in for a base hit it does fall in here comes Webb in from third easily to score and it's one to nothing Detroit Peter Webb was on a third base Doc Kramer hit an outside pitch and blew fifth out behind third in the left field and Hughes the shortstop went back and he couldn't get it so the first run and that's hit number three off Baroy and I think that's going to be our for Hank score is one to nothing in favor of Detroit and that is a sixth run Hank Baroy has given up in the 1945 World Series and it's definitely an earned run all six runs he has given up have been earned and I believe Paul Derringer is going to be called upon right here in the top half of the first inning yes here comes Paul Derringer so Baroy can't get anybody out in the top half of the first inning this is quite a spot for the veteran Paul Derringer to be coming in through he'll pitch first of all to Hank Greenberg that's a pretty tough customer Paul Derringer is being called upon Hank Baroy apparently did not have his stuff this afternoon against Detroit Derringer has come on as far as Derringer is concerned he's done a little pitching before in this series also he's pitched three and two third innings there's a round of applause for Hank Baroy as far as World Series appearance prior to this year Paul Derringer has won two and lost four Derringer pitched if you recall for St. Louis the Cardinals also for the Cincinnati Reds in the National League he pitched from the 31 series he pitched from the 39 series and his last series was in 1940 he was with Cincinnati then and pitched against the self-same Detroit Tigers and his series record up until now is two wins and 40 feats Paul is a grand veteran of the game Kentucky born and bred and he's right now he pitched as we said first of all Hank Greenberg now here's the position in the top of the first inning one run has been scored by Detroit well my review for you web singled through the hole between first and second and out into right field on a free two pitch Eddie Mayo came up then and with the hit and run flash Skeeter Webb was on his way for second and Eddie Mayo left handed hitter drilled the ball nicely between first and second and into right to put Webb on a third then Doc Kramer came up and hit a fast pitch and broke it into left field for a base hit and that put Mayo on second and scored Webb from third so there are no odds here in the top of the first inning the Tigers lead one to nothing and Greenberg is up at back he's had seven hits and 21 tries here in this World Series and he's hitting it 333 Paul right hand hitter stands just off the plate now Beringer is ready he'll make his first pitch here in first inning and there's a bump pushed down to first base Bill Cabaretta picks it up steps over on the first base line and tags Greenberg out unassisted as the runners move on so Greenberg despite the fact he's a terrific slugger was sent up by Steve O'Neill to sacrifice the boys along and he successfully did so Bill Cabaretta taking care of the put out of first base Kramer on the sacrifice moves over to second base and Eddie Mayo moves down to third now here's Roy Cullenbine who is hitting it 250 to intentionally walk Cullenbine despite the fact that he's only had five hits and 20 times up Cullenbine can be a pretty tough customer so Charlie Grimm has ordered Derringer to put him on there's the second ball pitched way wide there's the third one and now pitch out number four that's the sixth time Roy Cullenbine has drawn a base on balls here in this World Series the first base on balls issued this afternoon it's given up by Derringer now with the bases loaded Cullenbine at first, Kramer at second Mayo at third and one out the batter up there is Rudy York it's a one to nothing ball game in favor of the Detroit Tigers it's tooth and nail here this afternoon and it will be for the entire length of this ball game Derringer winds up slowly delivers a change of pace curve it's in for a strike that was a free quarter overhand curve ball that's the pace for adding and big Rudy York took it Eddie Mayo leads down off third Kramer steps off second and Cullenbine moves off first Derringer pitches York takes it's a low curve under his knees for a ball one one ball one strike is the count on Rudy York he's hitting a 208 for his work in the series he's had five hits for 24 official at bats we've got a lot of activity down in Big Oompa just reared back and fogged it in it looked like to Derringer of old that time he doesn't throw that high hard winds so much anymore but when he cuts it loose it's still got plenty of that stuff on it down in the bullpen Claude Passot and high Vandenberg are both getting ready for Chicago now here comes the next one and two delivery York takes it it's a high curve to level out the count of two and two two balls two strikes and here with Tigers in the top of the first inning only one out the thought has once scored and they lead one to nothing Roy is out of there now and Paul Derringer is trying to put out this Detroit fire Derringer kicks high the big six footer throws and there's a low sweeping curve on the outside for ball three Derringer stands six four and weighs 230 pounds 39 year old veteran and he has plenty of pressure on his shoulders right now but he's been in spots like this before here's a three and two pitch to Rudy York it's a fast curve it's hit out to right field it may fall in for a base hit Nicholson goes over near the line and it just falls foul it just falls foul by inches out back of right field Rudy York almost hit one but it just veered off and went foul by inches way deep in the corner so that means that Rudy York is going to have to come back and do it all over again Paul Derringer is going to have to throw another three two pitch you're a very dangerous hitter that's a tense situation here in the top half of the first inning seventh game of the World Series here at Wrigley Field in Chicago and now the sun is coming out it's getting a little more brilliant down on the diamond still very cool but a bit of wind blowing from behind home out towards center field here's a three two pitch York swings and fouls it up but God stays a three and two in case you just tuned in or just hooked up with us the score is one to nothing to throw it one out the bases loaded Rudy York at bat with a count of three and two and Derringer has relieved Baroy he pitches now and York swings and there's a high foul up to the right of the plate Mickey Livingston shoots back but he can't get it it's way back into the stands well the count stays at three and two on Rudy York Chicago in field playing their normal fielding depth of course they're hoping that Derringer will get Rudy York to hit onto the ground and that's just the thing that the Tigers want to see happen the outfield is playing very deep to Rudy York they have a right to do so because he clouds a long ball he gave evidence of that down at Briggs Stadium in Detroit he's probably hit the longest ball in this entire series he hit that ball well over 400 feet and it was caught down on the bullpen for the Chicago Cubs still throwing very hard and high Vandenberg just in case Derringer has any trouble here in trying to get Detroit out at the top of the first inning at third base Eddie Mayall at second base is Dr. Cramer and at first base purposely walked is Roy Cullenby so the bases are jammed square London nothing Tigers and Derringer's ready to throw three to Rudy York down at rides York swings right and there's a high in field pop up down at shortstop is Stanley Hack floating in front of Hughes and he takes it for the out well that's the second out now for Detroit in the top half of the first inning and Paul Derringer came down behind the plate to back up that play just in case he picked up Mickey Livingston's mask and handed it to Mickey and patted him on the back as if to say you helped me get him out of that one well that was the all important out as far as Derringer was concerned still he's not out of the woods by a long shot the bases are still loaded here with Tigers in the top of the first inning and Jimmy Outlaw who is hitting at 167 is standing in Outlaw right handed choke hitter stands deep at the plate and the little fella sort of crouches over slightly from the waist Derringer pitches him and Outlaw takes and there's a little curve at his knees for ball one Mayo takes his lead out third it's a generous lead Derringer's paying him no mind he's busily engaged pitching to Outlaw with the Detroit third baseman Outlaw's had four hits and 24 out bats in this series Derringer pitches him and there's a curve ball it slides off on the inside for ball two the outfield is stuck up a couple of steps to outlaw he doesn't hit a particularly long ball he's more of a punch hitter Outlaw Derringer big six foot four inch right hander delivers and there's a high curve right off the point of the chin of Outlaw for ball three three balls no strikes Derringer visits that rosin bag as far as he's concerned there's an awful lot riding with every pitch he makes down comes the next one Outlaw takes it and it's on the inside for ball four and it forces in Mayo from third that's the second walk given up by Derringer but he lost this man he walked Cullenbine purposely however that run is charged against Faroe so it's a two to nothing ball game down favor of the Detroit Tigers ball Richards comes wandering up to the plate to do a little hitting for Detroit he's the eighth man to come up here in the top half of the first inning Cullenbine moves over to second and Kramer takes his station at third is Outlaw goes down on the walk and Kramer takes his station at first the bases are still loaded still two outs score Detroit two Chicago nothing Derringer winds slowly kicks high throws a fast curve that's low under the knees of Richards for ball one the star Texan stands almost straight up and down at the plate and hits him right handed stands deep just as far back as he possibly can he's hitting it one thirty three two for fifteen he swings on the next pitch and falls down as he hits it the Cullen Richards now is one and one one ball one strike the outfield fans slightly around the left and out in left field Peanuts Lowry is playing deep to fall Richards he owes a shortstop has come down a couple of steps toward the foul line a left field foul line and he's playing deep in a hole at shortstop Derringer throws there's a fast one swung on and fouled back into the screen for strike two the Cullen Richards one ball two strikes there are two outs on Detroit here in the top of the first inning they lead to Cubs by margin of two runs as the score stands Detroit two Chicago nothing Derringer in a lot of trouble not of his own making but nevertheless he's had to shoulder the burden he's out there he throws one and two now and Richards swings there's a foul ball going deep in the left field it may drop in and it may not it is in fair territory drops in the corner in comes Kramer to score Cullen Byners also coming in outlaw comes around and he two scores it's a double for Richards well three more runs compiling in for Detroit here in the top of the first inning Detroit has a total now of five the matter of the plate is Hal Newhauser getting left handed and he takes the first pitch high for ball one Richards leads down off second base Derringer pitches and there's one swung on and missed for a strike so the count on Newhauser is one and one Newhauser has just been announced with the count of one and one on him he swings on the next pitch and hits a back of left field that falls away into the seats so the count on him now is one ball two strikes for Richards just hammered in three more runs for the Tigers may lead five to nothing Derringer throws there's a low curve under the knees of Newhauser for ball two that makes his count two and two Hal heading left handed standing very deep at the plate sort of guarding it from behind four runs have been scored off Baroy in one run off Derringer now Paul is ready down comes the next pitch and Newhauser hits one down a second base Johnson comes up with it second throws the field cover at him and that's all for Newhauser going out for three well it kind of the damage now in the first inning as nine men came to bat for Detroit a total of five runs on one two three four hits there's one man left and a winner so at the end of the top of the first inning Detroit leads in the seventh game of the World Series five to nothing for this final game of the 1945 World Series goes any further let me point out that you look better and feel better when you shave the 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double coming off the offering of Derringer now Stanley Hack gets a round of applause as he steps up to the plate to be the first Chicago Cub hitter he's leading all hitters here in the series at 440 he takes the first pitches Newhauser zips a fast one in there for a strike stands deep at the plate Newhauser takes his sign from Paul Richards pumps once 24 year old backhander glimmers and hack hits a ball down to third and it's foul just outside of the bag all the count on Stanley Hack is no balls to strikes hacks had 11 hits for 25 bats here in this series for a percentage of 440 as he stands at the plate this red hot second he gets another base hit he's going to be a record of long standing we'll tell you about that if and when it happens he takes the next pitch and it's a curve in there for a cold strike three and Hack knew it so the first man Newhauser faces he strikes out here in the last of the first inning and that's strikeout number one for Newhauser this afternoon that's strikeout number 13 for in his 11 and two third innings pitched in the world series now Don Johnson hitting at 167 hits right handed to standing in he takes a look at the first pitch that's a high curve up above the letters of the shirt that's ball one one ball no strikes Newhauser gets ready young Paul throws a fast one in there that's hit out over shortstop and out into left center field Dr. Hammer chases it, picks it up but Johnson is on his way to second here comes the throw it's not in time and Johnson slides and he's safe at second with a double John Johnson has just gotten his first hit on his 24th bat here in the series doubles for left center field Larry hitting a 280 is standing up to the plate right now Newhauser delivers him and Larry takes a high curve up above the shoulder that's ball one Peanut's Larry it's right handed and stands deep at the plate right wide spread apart Newhauser throws a fast one in there and Larry swings and doesn't get it the one and one count now on Mr. Paul Gilles left fielder Harry Peanut's Larry Johnson with his double it's on at second base that's the second extra base blow here in the seventh game of the world series both of them are hitting to left field Richard from the first inning for Detroit hit one very nicely down into left field corner that double of his scored free runs for Detroit they lead you know right now a five to nothing Newhauser checks back at second looks at Johnson now throws to the plate Larry pushes the bat back toward the mound it's picked up by Newhauser and he bobbles it for the moment throws running time well how Newhauser went after Peanut's Larry's bun and by the time he got his hands run it he bobbled it for the moment and doesn't feel like the first base so Chicago has runners at first and second the official scorer will give us his verdict in a minute but Albert will start him to get ready down in the Tiger Bullpen and here is Phillip Cabaretta hitting left handed and an error is being charged against Kyle Newhauser Johnson is on a second and Larry is on a first down it comes Phil swings on it to base it for right field Johnson comes whistling by third comes on into score and Larry slides into third Phil Cabaretta feet off on one and smacked it right past Eddie Mayo and out into right field for a base hit and on the blow Don Johnson came on in from second to score and Peanut's Larry running on the blow into third base so now Chicago has runners at first and third one out and the score is five to one in favor of Detroit and there's a big conference right now down at the mound with Hal Newhauser Eddie Mayo is in on that conference Paul Richards and he has asked has Paul Richards for a new shin protector the shin guard has been snapped in this last operation so he's getting a new one time has been called for it and that off Hal Newhauser we would like to go back and say is a second hit here in this ball game it is the 17th hit he's given up in the World Series and that is the 12th run that has been gotten off Newhauser first one this afternoon it's a five to one ball game in favor of the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago Cubs are also bearing their claws here in the last half of the first they're trying desperately to get back into this winner today taking the series now standing up at the plate is Andy Fathcoe who is hitting a 208 he takes the first curve and it's in there for a straight this sort of automatically called a curve where Newhauser delivers because he's got quite an assortment Fathcoe is hitting a 208 as we said he has had five hits for 24 at four 24 at bats Fathcoe swings on the next pitch as the ball hit the short for one out the throw on the first two outs that's the first double play here this afternoon Andy Fathcoe hit one down to Skeeter Web at short he played it very nicely back to Eddie Mayo for the force out on Cabaretta coming down and then Mayo flipped it over to first base and that's all Chicago scores one time here in the last half of the first inning one run on two hits there was a man left and there was one Detroit error no inning of play the score stands five to one in favor of the Detroit Tigers as we go into the top half of inning number two right here at Wrigley Field in Chicago and Paul Derringer comes out of the dugout moves out to the mound now to start the top of the second inning but before we get into the top of the second inning we have just a few moments seconds as a matter of fact the ball is for station identification so remember men sharp, feel sharp, be sharp used to let blue blades with the sharpest edges ever honed this is the mutual broadcasting system Skeeter Web here at Wrigley Field will start the second batting around for the Detroit Tigers starting off in the top of the second inning Derringer kicks high and throws and Web swings in a fast curve and misses for strike one Web got himself a single at right field in the first inning as your pitchers left swings there's a long fly ball in the center field Andy Pathfield goes back reaches over and takes it for the out a long fly ball center field that guy Andy Pathfield can go get him out of that outer orchard he went back and took it better coming up to the plate now for Detroit is Eddie Mayo he's had six hits now for 24 at bats hit nicely behind Skeeter Web in the first inning to move here Mayo hitting left handed Derringer curves him it's a medium speed curve ball Mayo ran up on it as if to bunt and then took it all these bat down off the shoulder and it was outside for ball one some of the crowd here wearing it's disapproval called that one but Mayo didn't attempt to play that wood on the horse side at all Derringer comes down with the next pitch Mayo swings on it and there's a fly ball in the center Andy Pathfield backs just one step and takes it for the out that's all for Mayo plotting one in the straightaway center field so very quickly now on the top of the second inning there are two outs for Detroit that brings to bat Doc Kramer Doc hit the first run in here in this ball game with a looping fly ball into left field it's got webbing from third so he's had one hit from one try this afternoon Doc hitting left handed Derringer tries a booper ball in there that floats in and over to Doc Kramer for a called strike Derringer's been working on that pitch all year pretty well has it mastered he tries it again as a knuckler he threw this time and missed with it just outside it's one and one one ball one strike Derringer doesn't throw that knuckler a great many times but he's got pretty good control of it big ball winds now kicks high throws a fast ball that's taken low under the knees that's ball two two balls one strike this is the top of the second inning Detroit two outs no base runners and they lead in this ball game five to one Derringer pumps throws there's a ball that lays very solid out in the right field for a base hit for Doc Kramer for Kramer singles to right that's it number two of Derringer hit number five as far as the Detroit Tigers are concerned now they have as many hits as they have run well if five is any significance the guy coming up to the plate is wearing a big five on the back of his uniform shirt that's Hank Greenberg he sacrificed successfully in the first inning so his pregame batting percentage of three thirty three for the series remains intact he's looking for a base hit number eight Derringer curves him and there's a classman through there for a strike no balls one strike on Hank Greenberg hitting right handed Hank calls his bat down as if the Bunton takes the pitch and it's high and on the outside that levels the count out to Hank at one and one strike Kramer leads off at first have a rather straddle on the inside corner holding close Derringer checks his runner then throws to the plate and Greenberg takes a high curve of all two two balls one strike High Vandenberg is still throwing down in the struggle bullpen just in case Derringer is going to have any trouble here in the second inning Greenberg takes another curve and Derringer probably had it in but it was a little low for ball three Derringer comes down off the mound and starts to beat to play down by our Pasarelli of the American League Derringer still chilling in John with Pasarelli now Pasarelli most seem to go back to the mound and pitch Derringer starts back there climbs up on the hill he's a big fellow this Derringer he's quite a competitor the county has on Greenberg who's equally big three and one of course Hank doesn't weigh quite as much as Derringer does but you put them both together on the same side of a teeter board now hold it down for you Derringer throws quickly to first base trying to pick off Kramer but Doc is in in time now he throws three and one to the plate to Derringer and it's a high curve for ball four Greenberg has walked that pushes Kramer down to second that's the third base on balls given up by Derringer his control has been responsible for two of them he was ordered to walk Cullenvine in the first inning now the batter standing in for Detroit is Cullenvine he was walked purposely in his first at bat so he's coming up for his first official turn right now runners are first and second into outs Cullenvine takes a sweeping curve that's low and down by his shins for ball one Ricky Livingston came up very nicely with that pitch now Derringer gets ready sights, serves and fast one is low that's ball two very defensively now Derringer on the mound, Livingston behind the plate at first is Kevoretta, at second is Don Johnson at third is Stanley Hacken at short is Roy Hughes while he isn't left field, Pat Cohen-Sutter and Bill Nicholson in right now the runners take their lead as Derringer throws to a nothing swung on, beaten down into the ground foul and that's strike one Derringer's ready Roy started this ball game for the Cubs he's bailed it out in the first inning Derringer has come on and he's out there throwing out the Cubs he's throwing two and one to Roy Cullenvine two outs and two on here for Detroit in second Cullenvine swings on a high curve and misses it strike two so the counter Roy Cullenvine the Detroit right fielder has two balls, two strikes, there are two outs two on in the second inning that's a flock of deuces now Derringer's ready now he comes with the two and two pitch and misses with it high for ball three now it's a three and two situation Roy Cullenvine who is a pretty good clutch hitter the score is five to one in favor of Detroit as it now stands but they're threatening here in the second inning Derringer's 3-2 and Cullenvine swinging on it fouls it back a first base on the ground the other count stays right on it three and two Steve O'Neill running his ball club from behind third base and the coach's box there puts on all kind of signs Cullenvine standing outside the batter's box watching him too he wants to get everything the boss has to say now we're all ready Derringer throws three and two Cullenvine takes and it's high on outside the ball four now there's a foul base on balls given up by Derringer in the second time and Cullenvine has been lost so Greenberg moves down the second and Kramer with two outs moves over to third so Derringer's got himself in a little bit of trouble here by his own wildness the bases are loaded with Tigers in the second and the batter is Rudy York Big Kickapoo takes a fast one in there for a strike at Derringer and at York there are a couple of fouls about the same size Follower's head easily kicks throws Rudy at the plate takes a fast one in there again for a strike that was pulled over the inside corner just above the knees Derringer looks down at Mickey Livingston the Chicago catchers that submit up as a target here comes the 0-2 delivery York takes it and it's just under his knees for ball one the bases are completely populated here in the second inning Kramer's at third, Greenberg at second and Cullenvine at first, there are two away Rudy York up there with a count of one ball two strikes Derringer throws to him and York sits down into the dirt at a high curve came right off the point of his chin so the count on York now is two balls two strikes Derringer taking his time now as he studies the situation very carefully it's a two and two count on Rudy York Derringer throws, York swings and there's a ball head out back of right field and it falls off the ball by about five feet there's a land drive spiked by Rudy York he hit a high outside pitch and dumped it out back of right field so the count stays right on the Rudy at two and two York's a little base hit hungry he'd like to get himself a hold of one of course Derringer has other ideas as he gets ready for this next two and two delivery down it rides, York swings on it and gets dressed enough of it to tip it foul spooked back on the ground all the way to the screen other count on York is two and two the count of the ball game is Detroit's five and Chicago's one Derringer hasn't waded through the torn grass here yet in the second inning he's having himself a little trouble he winds those two and two, York takes a high curve for ball three now it's three and two it's gone right down to the wire and when the Mickey Livingston fired that ball back to the mound far Derringer sort of snapped it right out of the air with his gloves hand he's a little mad at himself out there at the mound right now the three and two count on Rudy York the base is loaded in two outs when the top of the second inning Derringer throws three two and it's taken by Rudy York on the inside for ball four so another Detroit run is pushed across the plate the climber comes over to score from third base bases remain loaded his doing bird takes his station at third and Cullenbyne moves down to second that is rock number five and run number two given up by Derringer and the score stands now at six for Detroit and one for Chicago and I think that's going to be all for big Paul Derringer as he's coming out of there now and high Vandenberg another right hander is going to come on the pitch for Chicago so Derringer is all through he came in and pitched the first inning after Burrow he couldn't get anyone out so he pitched one inning in two-thirds of the second so he's pitched one and two-thirds in each and he's out of there this is not going to ball game to lose should it wind up this way because he came in with his ball club behind now stands it's Burrow's game but high Vandenberg is coming on here B-A-N D-E-N-B-E-R-G high Vandenberg pitching in the second inning with two rain the bases loaded and he'll throw first around the outlaw of the third baseman as far as Vandenberg is concerned here in this World Series he has pitched two and two-third innings in relief he's given up a couple of bases on Balls he's struck out no one he's one man lost none so Vandenberg takes them on for struggle and he's the third pitcher for Charlie Grimm Jimmy Outlaw steps up there with the bases loaded Greenberg at third Kellen Barnett's second in York at first the sixth to one ball game in favor of the third Vandenberg delivers three-quarter overhand and pitched it's in there for a strike and Jimmy Outlaw came up in the first inning and he too was walked so his pregame batting percentage for the series of 167 is still intact Vandenberg, the grab on right-hander delivers there's a swooping curve ball that misses just outside Outlaw digs back in stands deep at the plate holds it that high on his right shoulder Vandenberg twists throws a curve ball it's hit right back to the mound Vandenberg knocks it down with his body then picks it up close at the caporetta and that's Outlaw and the Tigers in the second so Vandenberg gets them out of there but not before they had scored a run one run on one hit three men left and they went away so at the end of one and a half innings of play the score stands for the Tigers six and the Cubs one well now there's a moment I want to bring baseball's famous pinch hitting pitcher red roughing of the New York Yankees to the microphone red the standout pitcher of the American League is the leading World Series pitcher of all time having won seven consecutive victories and being charged with only two defeats red I wish you'd tell the fans what you told me last evening about the slick easy shades you get with the Gillette blue blade just what I said Al I can't get a decent shave with any other blade I'm telling you about it Red okay Al I said you're lying look sharp feel sharp it sends a story up for me kind of does look better and feel better when you shave with that Gillette blue blade well that's what I wanted you to give the fans Red thanks Red Ruffin remember men look sharp feel sharp be sharp use Gillette blue blades with the sharpest edges ever home now on the last half of the second inning the postman up for Chicago is going to be Bill Nicholson Bill is heading in 208 he has fired for 24 for his work in the series one of those hits was a triple the very costly triple as far as Detroit was concerned because it helped them lose the first game of the series now Newhauser pitches and Nicholson swings viciously and piles it way back onto the screen for strike one I can't help but wonder what goes through Red Ruffin's head as he watches the American League is performed here this afternoon at Wrigley Field in Chicago Red told me last night that he certainly would like to be pitching down there just any day in this series Newhauser is throwing the over Detroit he snaps a curve in its load and Nicholson for ball one run and run is the count to Bill Nicholson first man up for Chicago on the second inning Newhauser throws a curve and Nicholson swings on and there's a high par ball going over near the Detroit dugout Richard the catcher is over and he clicks it for the out that's all for Nicholson fouling up and out to catcher Richard of Detroit the better now is Mickey Livingston Mickey missed just one of the ball game so he's playing his sixth game of the world series he's had seven hits for 18 at bats and he is the number two hitter of all batsmen he's going along hitting it 389 his right hand hitter standing deep at the plate takes a look at the first pitch in the crossing Newhauser had that one right in he throws one strike it's young Detroit softball delivers and Livingston hits one down to third out flat, picks it up on a big hop fires it over to Rudy York and that's all for Livingston going out from third to first now Roy Hughes the shortstop is coming up there are two outs here in the last of the second inning the score stands Tiger Six and the Chicago Cubs one this is the seventh and final game of the 1945 World Series he was hitting right handed batting at 286 Newhauser tries a curve on him and it's good just above the knees on the outside corner for strike one Hughes bends over slightly from the waist Newhauser pours a change of pace in there that's just outside that's ball one one ball one strike Newhauser throws again this time Hughes swings on it and fires it up into the second tier behind first base down in the bullpen for the Chicago Cubs tall blonde right hander Paul Erickson is starting to get ready I believe that if Hughes gets on then the bird may not hit Newhauser delivers the plate now and Hughes takes it and it's a nice curve strike that's the third one Newhauser really had it in there that's serious far as strikeouts are concerned that's the second one for her so at the end of two innings of play with nothing across here for Chicago in a second it is the Tiger Six and the Cubs one well you know each day since the opening of this World Series we have been explaining how these games are being broadcast to our service men how through the far-flung network of the armed forces radio our play-by-play descriptions are being short-waved from San Francisco to Japan and China, Alaska, South America to the Philippines and to our Navy ships throughout the Pacific from New York they are beamed over the Atlantic to England, France, Germany, Italy and to the Far East we are happy to say that the armed forces radio service are receiving wires from all over the world telling them what reception of the game so far has been excellent and that the men are getting a real thrill out of listening in as one Detroiters said to a correspondent in Tokyo this is the next thing to being out there in the bleachers if we only had some hot dogs yes our bleachers this year extended clear out to Tokyo on one side and over to Berlin and Vienna on the other side to all you men and women out there we send our greetings and our sincere hope that you'll be back here with us when the World Series rolls around next year well the third inning is rolled around here at Wrigley Field in Chicago it's a six to one ball game in favor of the Detroit Tigers as we start the first half of inning number three with Paul Richards and Detroit catcher up at bat Richards doubled back in the first inning to knock in three runs for the ball club so he probably feels very fine about it his high Vandenberg makes the first pitch and it's a fast ball strike Livingston sets out the sign Vandenberg takes it throws that pitch it's a curve ball with medium speed variety low for ball one one and one is the count on Paul Richards he's had one hit in one try Vandenberg tries another curve and Richards takes it and it's a sweeping curve that bites over the outside corner for Paul Strick so that makes the count one and two on the Detroit catcher Vandenberg pumping nervously now throws a curve ball it's in there for Paul Strick three that's half of Richards took it with his bat on his shoulder that's the first strikeout against Detroit this afternoon and a high Vandenberg the third of the Chicago Richards hangs it up batter coming up now is Hal Newhauser Hal came up in the first inning and grounded down to the right side and Johnson in the second base going to cut through him out Hal hitting left handed stands very deep at the plate Vandenberg curves him and misses with it just outside and low for ball one Newhauser has 0 for five as a batsman in the series so he has no batting percentage he swings on the next pitch it's a change of pace curve hit down to the right side Johnson in second picks it up on the right side of the diamond and hooks it in the cavalry and that's all for Newhauser going out from second to first just as he did in the first inning so that's the second out now for Detroit here in the first half of inning number three Skeeter Webb is coming to the plate now he's had one hit and two tries he got a single to right back in the first inning if you recall Vandenberg tries a three quarter overhand curve on him and it's outside the ball one Webb standing forward at the plate this time it's as close to the pitcher as he can he swings on the next pitch and beats it down foul the left of the plate and it rolls back toward the Chicago dugout so the cop now on Skeeter Webb is one ball one strike two outs top of the third inning and the score stands at six to one in favor of Detroit over Chicago Vandenberg's ready now hustles his pitch down there and Skeeter Webb swings on a wide curve and doesn't get it that strike two he really reached for it too he wanted to hit that one one ball two strikes Webb's always nervous with that bat at the plate he pumps it back and forth now he swings on this next pitch it's a slow roll of the shortstop Hughes comes in nicely picks it up closer to the cap ready in time by a stride and that is all for Webb going out from short to first so in the third inning for Detroit no runs, no hits, no errors and nobody left in the score Detroit six and Chicago one Red Roughing, starboard Yankee pitcher speaking from Miss Ruth last inning told you about the slick easy shaves he gets with today's Gillette Blue Blade now there are millions of shavers just as enthusiastic as Red Roughing about this finest of razor blades in fact the Gillette Blue Blade is number one in preference the world over because it's number one in sharpness yes today's Gillette Blue Blade has the sharpest edges ever home so sharp so smoothly finished so easy shaving the rough beards no problem at all it's mighty easy to check ol' Al just ask for Gillette Blue Blades and see how quick and how easy and how smooth and refreshing shaving can be man what shave you get remember, look sharp be sharp be sharp use Gillette Blue Blades with the sharpest edges ever home we pause now 10 seconds for station identification this is the mutual broadcasting system this is WGN Chicago I, Vandenberg, is to be the first hitter for Chicago here in the last of the third inning Vandenberg's coming up to the plate right now matter of fact he has no hits and no at-bats here in the series he takes the first pitch high for ball one so this is his first official at-bat in the 1945 series Newhauser comes down with the next delivery and Vandenberg swings and doesn't get it he spun all the way around so the count on Vandenberg now is one ball one strike first come up in the third inning Al Newhauser working very well for the torque delivers Vandenberg swings hits a high fly ball out into right field up under it is Cullen Byron he's got it for the out that's all for Vandenberg a fly ball to right field to Roy Cullen Byron that brings up the second hitter and starting the second biting around for Chicago Stanley Hag he was struck out in the first inning he's had 11 hits and 26 at-bats here in this 1945 series Newhauser works Hag takes and there's a low curve on the outside for ball one if Stanley Hag can get himself another base hit in this world series he will tie Eddie Rice of Washington and Pepper Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals with 12 hits in a single series Vandenberg rather Newhauser tries a curve and it's outside to Hag for ball two two balls no strikes we're in the last half of the third inning the score is 6-1 in favor of Detroit and one out for Chicago no base runners and Stanley Hag is up there for his second at-bats Newhauser is kind of stingy with the cards he's giving them only two hits he throws a curve in there and Hag walks up on it and takes it and it's nicely in for a strike now his count is two balls one strike Newhauser comes down to fastman and it's in there for ball strike two just above the Hag knees and on the outside runner now the count on the Chicago third baseman is two balls two strikes Hag watches Newhauser get ready then swings on his offering and hits a ball down to third Outlaw comes up with it behind third throws to first and that's all for Hag Hag going out and third to first being thrown out by his opposing third baseman Jimmy Outlaw so that's the second out here in the last half of inning number three about an hour's Johnson Johnson got one of the two hits given up so far by Newhauser when he got it in the left center field back in the first inning Newhauser throws a medium speed curve ball in there that's swung on by Johnson and fouled out to the right of the plate strike one and Newhauser with a new ball is ready Newhauser forms a fastman and it's hit back past the mound back to second Skeeter Webb rides behind second makes the pick up from the floor to first nicely for the out that's all for Johnson going out from short to first being thrown out by Skeeter Webb so there's nothing across for the Cubs here in the last half of the third inning no runs, no hits, no errors and nobody left the score at the end of three means of play in the seventh game of the 1945 World Series is Detroit sixth and Chicago one as a matter of fact Detroit has six runs on a total of five hits they have committed one error while for the Chicago Cubs they have one run on a total of two hits off Newhauser and they have committed no errors so we're headed for the top of the fourth inning here at Wigley Field in Chicago and Harvey Andenberg the third of the Chicago pitchers has taken the mound and he'll throw first of all in the fourth inning to Eddie Mayo Eddie Mayo will be followed by Doug Cormoran and by left fielder Hank Greenberg Mayo has been up twice in this ball game and has had one hit in two attempts back in the first inning he got a single right field in the second inning Mayo fly at the center Cormoran hasn't been stopped so far today he's had two hits a single the left and a single the right and he has two at bats and then Hank Greenberg sacrificed successfully in the first and was walked in the second so Greenberg hasn't been up there really officially and Mayo steps in hitting left handed opens his stance slightly toward first base Brandon Bird right hander delivers and there's a fast ball swing on and beaten down into the ground foul rolls back toward the first strike one on Eddie Mayo this is the ninth seven game series to be played and six of eight have been won by the National League Brandon Bird drives a little cool this time change the pace karate and it's go one one by one strike to count on Eddie Mayo Brandon Bird comes right back to the one-on-one offering and it's a curve ball of hands outside to ball two go one that's the count on Eddie Mayo the first tiger up fourth inning fast ball swing on the Mayo missed completely for strike one rather strike two two ball two strikes that was the first one he swung at in that manner two ball two strikes is the count on Eddie Mayo first man up for Detroit here in the fourth inning Brandon Bird delivers to him too there's an easy curve it's in there for called strike three that's right to Mayo that's for Brandon Bird his strikeout number two he's the only Chicago Cup pitcher who's been able to do any presence in that strikeout department with Detroit this afternoon now the batter is Buck Cramer he's had two hits and two tries that's handed batter takes the first pitch and it's crossing right in there just under the lettering of the shirt right through the middle Brandon Bird's way is back comes down to the change of pace curve it's reached there and there's a high path back at shortstop Hughes goes back and left field and grabs it for the out that's all for Cramer so he's been stopped now that's the second out the top of the fourth inning that brings up Hank Greenberg for his first official outback his pregame batting percentage of 3-33 is still right look at that outfield move back and Greenberg digs in Larry moves back and left half go moves over into left center and moves way back Brandon Bird tries curve on him Greenberg takes it high at the ball one Neckerson is over almost into right center field big hole in right field near the line Brandon Bird throws and Greenberg takes there's an inside curve just off the short ribs the ball too two balls no strikes high-vanted Bird blows on the fingers of his pitching hand now grips that ball steps up delivers goal for ball three overcut on Greenberg now three balls no strikes he looks around to third base Steve O'Neill to see whether or not he's going to be allowed to pitch Brandon Bird makes it but it's taken it's in for strike 3-1 Greenberg waves that war club back and forth takes his next pitch and it's under his knees and on the inside to ball four so Greenberg is left with two away here in the fourth inning that's the first walk given up by Brandon Bird that's walk number six that has been given to the Detroit Titans now the father been receiving most of the walks is right culling by and he's been recipient of two of them and he's up there now Brandon Bird starts to work on culling by and misses with a low fast one on the inside the ball one one ball no strikes Greenberg steps up at first two away here in the top of the fourth culling by reaches for a curve ball and beats it down into ground power so the count now on culling by is one and one one ball one strike very hitting left handed against the right handed offerings of high-vanted Bird Greenberg steps off at first then Bird picks the plate of swing and there's a long line drive parallel out back to right field culling by also broke his bat on that one fell away from an inside hook and tried to pull it into right but pulled it too much well the count is one and two on culling by one ball two strikes and a little time has been called here now to allow culling by and to walk over to the Tiger dugout select his favorite piece of lumber comes trudging back up to the plate to that lower shoulder gets in there now the count is one ball two strikes on right culling by two outs in the top of the fourth and Hank Greenberg who has walked is on it first then the bird delivers there goes Greenberg the ball is swung on and missed and dropped by Mickey Livingston but he makes the peg down to first base in time and it's a strikeout nevertheless culling by is out of there so Vandenberg hangs up strikeout number three no runs no hits one man left into an error so at the end of three and a half innings of play the score stands Tiger six and the Cubs one well we all like to watch a pitcher who can thaw them through yes speeds a great thing when it's combined with perfect control speed counts for plenty in shaving too when it's hooked up with real comfort now that's the kind of shaving you get when you use Gillette breastless shaving cream Gillette breastless removes moisture-resisting most instantly what's more it blackens a barrel of water against them giving every bristle a thorough soap yes Gillette breastless softens stubble and jig-dye stays wet on your face lubricate your blade and make shaving much quicker and easier for extra shaving speed and comfort ask your dealer for a Gillette breastless if he's out of stock today because of wartime shortages he'll have Gillette breastless soon now for the last half of inning number four six to one in favor of the Tigers over the Cubs and Peanut's Larry is coming up for his second at-bat here in the seventh game he's over one he was a base runner in the first inning when Uhauser bobbled his attempted sacrifice now Hal out on the mound makes the pitch and there's a nice hook in there for a strike little Larry gets down gets a double hand full of dirt former G.I. waves at-bat back and forth now Uhauser cuts the pitch loose and Larry takes it hard that's ball one strike Uhauser works again Larry swings on it and there's a tab all going out in the right center field going over for it is Doc Cullenbine cuts in front of him and takes it for the out so on right center field it was right Cullenbine who streaked in front of Doc Cramer to make the put out that's one away in the last of the fourth inning for the Chicago Cubs for Paul Cavalletta has hit him the only run so far for Chicago today and he's coming up now Cavallette had a single in the first inning the folks here are being asked to remove the blankets from the wall in deep center field now they've done so and the ball game is going to go on Uhauser throwing left handed of course makes his first pitch and it's a curve ball that stays outside to a left hand hitter field Cavalletta for ball one Uhauser tries again and Cavalletta laces this one out of the center field it's dropping in for a base hit Doc Cramer picks it up on the third skip and fires it into Eddie Mayo the second baseman the center that's it number three Uhauser and the batter is Andy Pathwell and he stands here in Chicago very suddenly come to life Pathwell hitting to a double play back in the first inning he liked to return for that right now he swings on the first pitch and there's a fly ball to center Doc Cramer goes back into his right and misjudges it the ball falls behind him here comes Cavalletta moving into third Charlie Grimm is waving him on in there comes Richard the runner in sight and Pathwell is at third but Doc Cramer out in deep center field misjudged a fly ball that was carried by the wind and it winds up as a triple for Pathwell to score Cavalletta all the way from first and a throw that came into the plate was blown into the dirt and Richard couldn't pick it up here is Bill Nicholson Uhauser delivers and Nicholson swings and misses for strike one Al delivers and Nicholson if the plate takes low and on the outside for ball one one ball one strike that's a count on Nicholson he fouled up and out in the second and into Richard's though he's over one for this game Uhauser delivers a fast curve under the knees of Nicholson for ball two new balls one strike there's one out for Chicago here in the fourth they're trying to get back into this ball game as the score stands Detroit six down off third Nicholson swings and hits the ball easily back to the mile Uhauser drives the runner back into third throws the first in time and that's all for Nicholson he topped the swing and rolled it back toward the mile Nicholson thrown out by Newhauser Pat go holding on at third base the batter is Livingston now Livingston came up in the second inning and was thrown out by third baseman outlaw now Newhauser is ready to deliver to him and checks Pat go at third throws to the plate and swung on missed or strike one Livingston was going after a high inside curve make his right handed hitter as we told you he is the number two hitter in the series as far as batsman are concerned he's had seven hits for 19-twice now Newhauser is ready delivers 0-1 to the plate and there's a ball hit over to first and that's all for Livingston that's all for the Chicago Cubs here in the fourth inning so despite the triple Newhauser got out of it rather easily very inexpensively one run two hits one man left and there were no errors so at the end the four full innings of play the score stands six for the Tigers before we get into the top half of the fifth inning I'd just like to remind you that for a rousing time we're going to have a lot of fun Gillette's Cavalcade of Sports yes for the major boxing event of the week every week the year round tune in Gillette's Cavalcade of Sports Friday nights consult your newspaper for a local station and local time now for the first half of inning number five this is quite a knock down drag out ball game with the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers fighting for the world's championship here in the seventh game of the season the first man up for Detroit here in the fifth inning is going to be Rudy York he twice has been up there but just once officially he came up in the first inning and popped up and out to third baseman Stan Hack then in the second inning it was walked so York is coming up actually for his second official at bat he's all for one no hits in one try out on the mound high vandenberg pitching for the Chicago Cubs as Vista Durasin bag and he's ready to throw Rudy York big powerful right-hand hitter very thick set through the chest and shoulders watches the first pitch whistle in and it's low for ball one it's a six to two ball game in favor of the Tigers Vandenberg twists and throws an overhand curve that's swung on and fouled off by York to strike one one ball one strike that's the count on Rudy York York looks down at O'Neill behind third these ball players very carefully watch their manager because with each pitch signs are changed Vandenberg delivers one-on-one it's a medium speed curve ball it's over for strike now it's one and two one ball two strikes York waits Vandenberg serves York swings and there's a bounding ball to third pack is up with it there's a throw over to Cabaret at first and that is all for York bouncing out from third to first that's one away here in the top of the fifth inning the batter coming up there now for Detroit is Jimmy Outlaw he walked in the first hit back to the mound and was thrown out of a pitcher the second inning so Outlaw has gone up there once officially and has failed to get a hit Vandenberg throws a curve in there that Outlaw the little right-handed hitter swings on and falls right back on to the screen for strike one outfield immediately when Outlaw comes up there walks in a couple of steps Vandenberg now with one away in the fifth delivers and Outlaw almost took a swing at that one but pulled up in time to take it low for ball one one ball and one strike is a count on the third baseman Jimmy Outlaw the Detroit Tigers Vandenberg the right-hander throws and it swung on and hit just over the outstretched fingertips of cues not in the left field for a base hit so Outlaw singles right over shortstop not in the left that's hit number six as far as Detroit is concerned and now they have equal number of runs and hits batter is Paul Richards Richards doubled in the first inning struck out in the third and now he takes a curveball that's good for a strike no balls one strike that's a count on Richards he's turning he turns around and really talking to Paso Rella he didn't like to call on that with a bit and five in the third innings that was the first hit off Vandenberg down comes the next pitch there goes they run it down to second base the hits the plate is slow on for strike two the plate goes down to second the flying spikes of Outlaw slides under the peg and he's safe at second so he'll get credit with a stolen base Outlaw's credited with a steal of second Richards swung to protect him and of course that strike two on Paul but the Tigers have another base runner in scoring position they've won away here on the top of the fifth inning Vandenberg is ready now delivers Richards takes a curveball that snaps off outside to ball one one ball two strikes Outlaw was really digging that time he stole a second two little short legs of his pumping and chopping up and down covers a lot of ground Vandenberg delivers the plate and Richards takes a low curve on the inside for ball two now it's a count of two balls two strikes on Paul Richards one out for the trot on top of the fifth inning Outlaw's single and stole second and he's now on a piece stone his hands on his hip to right now as he takes a short lead looks around behind him to make sure no one's sneaking in behind him to take him off now Vandenberg is ready delivers two and two Richards leans forward toward it and then jerks himself back and takes ball three three balls two strikes that's the count on Paul Richards the trot catcher Vandenberg ready with the three two delivery checks Outlaw at second now throws plate wood Richards swings on it there's a high follow ball way back into the second tier behind first base quick count stays at three and two score in case you just tuned in trot six and Chicago two we're in the top half of the fifth inning one out Outlaw at second Richards at the plate count of three and two and he swings on the next pitch hits it down the Stanley hack the runner is driven back into second hacks throw across the diamond is in time and that's all for Richards going out from third first Outlaw holding right on at second about an hour's Hal Newhauser up until now Hal Newhauser pitched himself a pretty sharp game he's been looking sharp down there and it's left handed however the batsman he's gone over to he swings on the first one a big jug handle Kerr missed it for strike the ball's one strike is a count on Hal Newhauser two outs Outlaw still on at second Bannonburg delivers Newhauser swings on the next pitch and there's a fly ball hit out into left field Larry has to hurry he doesn't makes the catch Larry had to come up in a big hurry and over toward the line in left field but he was right there made the catch so there are no runs one hit and a man left there were no errors so at the end of four and a half innings of play the score stands the Tiger 6 and the Cubs 2 folks peace has plenty of blessings among them is the thrill we all get at seeing the good things we've missed during the war reappear so when I tell you that the famous easy-shaving Gillette Tech Razor is coming back on dealers counters all over the country stores have the Gillette Tech in stock right now and 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hit and get on Hughes swings foul tips it strike one one ball one strike don't go away y'all this game isn't over yet 62 the Tigers are out in front and Hal Newhauser the best of their pitchers looking mighty keen just the same these Cubs are fighting back Newhauser works on it the third ball gets the inside corner Hughes is sore about it and throws his bat down and walks away from the plate and Charlie Grimm comes walking in from third and he's not happy now it was a third ball nipped the inside corner now Hughes and Passarella have got themselves a bit of a run to lay on down there Hughes is taking his chin out at Passarella Passarella is talking right back to him too that Passarella was a military policeman in the army now Hughes picks his bat up again and meanwhile he's just flailing his arms around like a windmill trying to keep warm it's a cool day here they are ready to go again here's the pitch to Hughes it's inside ball two two balls two strikes and a driver draws from the crowd who disagreed with the call on that last bit two and two now on Roy Hughes Newhouse is ready here it is Hughes takes it and it is ball strike three and Hughes is sore again but he's out of there that's the second time that Roy Hughes is struck out in this ball game and for Newhouse is that a strike out number three two of them he's collected off of Hughes now here's a pinch hitter coming up in place of high vandenberg that's Eddie Sauer Sauer stepping up there right handed hitter this is Sauer's second time up as a pinch hitter in the ball game and Newhouse are promptly reaching handed batter one strike on him Newhouse works down low into the dirt scooped up by Richards the crowd hooping a bit they're giving Passarello a bit of a resolute one and one on Sauer that pitches high at the ball too S-A-U-E-R Eddie Sauer Newhouse who has a commanding lead in this ball game is taking plenty of time on every pitch he's never pitched a more important battle in this in his life Sauer swings on that one thousand big nutting here behind the catcher two balls two strikes on Sauer the next pitch will either be Passarello or Eric's and I believe they both seem to be working out down there in the bullpen for the Cubs our new ball putting play Newhouse has it rubbed up here's a pitch it's a little too high makes a ball play put a post out on Sauer the pinch hitter there have been more pinch hitters used in this series as you know than any other series in all baseball history Sauer swings strikes out strikeout number four for Newhouse two out there's Chicago on the last half of the fifth and now the lead off hitter Stanley Huck comes up to start the third batting around for the Cubs and Stanley has been turned back his two previous appearances at the plate by Hal Newhouse Hal works Huck takes a fast ball strike Newhouse seems to be getting sharper and sharper as this game wears along here it comes forward stops get a web scoops it out of the deck to throw the post it's just in time Huck is out by half a strike so on the last fifth inning there's nothing across for the Chicago Cubs and the score at the end of five four innings of play is Detroit six and Chicago two and I believe it's big born Paul Erikson who's coming in to be the next pitcher for the Cubs but Rachel is officially announced he's taking the strike in though from out there in left field where the ball matches into a pair is the fourth pitcher this afternoon the Chicago Cubs let's pause here ten seconds for station identification remember man look sharp feel sharp be sharp use Gillette blue blades with the sharpest edges ever home this is the mutual broadcasting system this is Avenue G Avenue Chicago serving Charlie Graham as you can see is using every bit of ammunition he has in his hall arsenal to try to pull this game out of the fire as we've told you who came out there as you know let's remind you if a late tuner in you are Hank Burrow he started the ball game and they collected three hits in a row off of him and that was all for him and big old Paul Derringer came in he was relieved by Vandenberg in the second inning Vandenberg picked mighty classy ball he gave up only one hit only hit he's given up in the series and now Vandenberg was lifted in the last half of the fifth inning for a pinch at him and so we have born Paul Erikson a big right handed so far in this series Erikson has appeared in three games this is the fourth game he's come in as a pinch pitcher he has pitched five innings and given up six hits Erikson hails from Zion Illinois stands six two and he weighs 200 pounds and he's a big impressive figure out there on the mount getting ready to pitch now to Jimmy Webb right handed hitting shortstop and he feeds him a call strike that was a fast ball that clipped the inside corner waist high Webb is starting the fourth fighting around for the Tigers a lost two strikes on Jimmy Skeeter Webb the Skeeter's got his three year old little daughter Caroline here she's a nice looking kid two strikes on Caroline's popper swings on that one there's a fly ball going into Santa Field in comes Papco he's under it now and takes it for the out and pass to one knee after he does so but I don't think he's hurt nope so Webb is out of there Andy Papco and Santa Fields okay that's one way for Detroit now and this is a tense battle and you can tell by the fact that you don't get too much noise in the background except when there's a cub rally on that these Chicago fans are pulling pulling for their team and here's Eddie Mayo stepping up batting left handed takes a call strike Erickson was very fast with the third ball just above the knees on the outside corner Mayo bats left handed he's one for three in this game backs away from an inside pitch that's low by the shins ball one Mayo usually parks his chewing gum on that button on the top of his cap but I haven't seen him doing it in the World Series there's a little bit too serious to be parking gum on your cap one one on Mayo Erickson pitches side arm it's too high ball two Al has taken a look at Mayo through his glasses and just to keep all the reporting straight the guns up there hot spotkins but it freezes two balls one strike on Mayo as Erickson takes plenty of time for this next pitch now the big guy winds up delivers Mayo swings on it there's a try ball going into left field off to his left is Lowry and on the running that's a head catch that was a pretty deep hit ball and that's Lowry starting with the crack of the bat was running back into his left and back almost by that blind covered wall out there he made the catch Mayo is out and that's two out for Detroit now on the top of the sixth inning and he's got Kramer who's been pretty good swings on one slaps it down the left field lines foul goes over into the stance a dozen and one people stand up and reach their fingers up to try to catch that can get a broken finger there one strike on duck Kramer from Manahawk in New Jersey the Fox Hunter swings on that one slaps it out in the center field there's another hit ball goes out to Papco in center field and he throws it back into second and Kramer's on and there's a stir in the stance as Big Hank advances to the plate Hank has been walked twice today and he's been walked six times in the series his first time up this afternoon he sacrificed successfully so Big Hank the long ball hitter who has slugged out two home runs and three doubles steps up there and he gets a call strike Ericsson was shot with a fast curve just below the shoulders to Mr. Greenberg Hank's got one of his wrists taped up today here it is Greenberg takes it outside one ball, one strike and Penance Lowry has gone to deep out in the left field you can barely see the little fella he's backed up there was over his head that Hank Greenberg slugged that one yesterday here it comes Greenberg takes another call strike and Hank was usually pretty genius looks a little bit irritated at that two strikes on him the outfield plays Greenberg so that there's a big hole between center field and right field they pull him he's a right handed slugger and a full hit up Kramer leads off first two out there's a throw to first Kramer hops back on for all of these 39 years Duck Kramer says he's going to continue to play baseball until somebody beats him out of there that's the spirit Greenberg fouls that one off lands in the big fishing net here behind the catcher count is still one ball, two strikes on Henry Greenberg I think that's the first time in this series he's been called Henry Ericsson works in the pitches outside Livingston has a hard time hauling it Kramer goes on down to second un molested and it's a stolen base farm that's the third stolen base for the Tigers in this series and the second one today Pollenbine outlaw and Kramer have now all pilfered a bag the Cubs on the other hand have two stolen bases Johnson and Paphko snitch them Allen Greenberg has two balls two strikes now big Paul Ericsson and that spanking white uniform of his stretches delivers to all unit get elected marriage Chicago by spanking out Greenberg today that's all for the Tigers in the top of the stakes no runs they hit a man left on and there were no errors so as we head to the last to six the stars Detroit 6 Chicago 2 plans doesn't stand to reason that Gillette of all folks has the resources, experience and skills to produce the kind of shaving cream that you want the kind that you can't get from yours truly that's just what Gillette leather shaving cream does it makes a rich master laden leather the hose of barrel of water and releases it freely soaking every bristle and keeping your whiskers soft all the while you shave your razor grinds like a feather you get shaves that are shaved men Gillette leather shaving cream stays wet on your face and keeps your whiskers properly you get cleaner smoother but a looking shave and you save money too when you use Gillette leather shaving cream a credit the last half of the sixth inning and Chicago sailing by fair runs finds that the chances of running out the fans of time are working against them and they have in the regulation distance fair enough times in fact the salvage is 45 now Newhauser is flailing that arm around it is and here's Johnson off a right handed hitter who is one for two and there's a call strike a beautiful curve by Newhauser ooh that fella has stuffed one strike on Don Johnson Johnson doubled in the first inning swings on that one fires it off two strikes it lands on the nest behind the catcher Paul Richards Richards comes from Rocks a Hatchie he tells me that's the way to pronounce it down in Texas we've been calling it Rocks a Hatchie and we apologize now to every citizen of Rocks a Hatchie this strikes on Johnson now Richards of Rocks a Hatchie gives a signal to Newhauser he's ready to go Johnson swings strikes out that is strike out number five for Newhauser Newhauser struck out one in the first inning one in the second none in the third none in the fourth two in the fifth and now one in the sixth the batter now Peanuts Lowry a right handed hitter who is offered to today Peanuts crouches swings flaps it out into left field with the single Greenberg coming up to field it out of it for a minute but Lowry after taking a sharp turn at first goes back to first it's a single for Peanuts and it is hit number five of Newhauser and Cabaretta who's had a hit every time this afternoon steps up to the plate Paul now has ten hits in this series out of 24 times up he's had two doubles and a homer the pitch time is low and outside ball one Newhauser will be touching with extreme tears to throw Cabaretta the star of first baseman and the nice believes batting champion Lowry leads off first there's the pitch pine outside the curve is both away ball two on Cabaretta you can hear the ascending roar of the fans here in Wrigley field as again the cup start a threat that's a call strike three quarter speed first ball that hooked over there for Newhauser Cabaretta took it two and one outfield is straight away but deep on Cabaretta he swings on a low breaking curve and misses it at that low outside curve that Cabaretta swung on three or four times I can think of in the series now Newhauser watches Lowry at first delivers the plate Cabaretta takes it ball three now it's a full count three and two and Grimm coaching at third bends over puts his hands on his knees and he's not jolly now he's stern and tense Newhauser stretches here's the three and two pitch it swung on there's a fly ball tapped into center field in comes Grimm he comes up to it and catches it now he's going to have to hurry to get back to first but does so Cabaretta is out on a flight he shot center field that Doc Primer had to come rustling in to get Lowry remains at first there are two out and here's Andy Papto who has hit the extremes in his batting today the first time up he hit into a double play the last time back in inning number four he got a triple to center field he's a right handed hitter as Andy he's one of the six Papto brothers from up for Stunson way Newhauser pitches him it's good fast curve midway between the waist and knees Andy took it one strike first strike two that was a fast curve on the inside corner Papto crowds the plate just a little he wasn't sure of that one two strikes Papto's had six hits 26 times up in this series that one's low into the day ball one one ball two strikes two out a runner at first tell Newhauser stretches delivers and he strikes out Papto is out of there and that strike out number six for Newhauser he struck out two of them listening and he struck out two in inning number five so in the last half of the sixth inning no runs for Chicago one base runner left down and there are no errors so the score at the end of sixth for winning supply is Detroit six and Chicago two that makes for Mr. Newhauser in the series eight and now we move into inning number seven and as we've said the issue is becoming sharper and sharper with each advancing inning and now there are only three innings left the Tigers are out in front six to two and on the mound the captain is completing his warm up pitches behind the plate is Mickey Livingston the Ferry guy from South Carolina and at first there's Cabaretta and at second there's Johnson and at short stop there's Roy Hughes whispering Roy and at third there's the great Stan Hyde and at left field there's little Peanuts Lowry and in center field there's Andy Papto and out in right field is bad Bill Nicholson and those are the Cubs in the field and they're behind now and Detroit threatens to take the series now the first Detroit batter in inning number seven Roy Cullenbine he has been walked seven times in this series and he struck out twice today he's been walked twice and struck out once that was his last time up pitch time is long outside by Paul Eriksen ball one Cullenbine big and husky can hit from either side of the plate batting left handed across against right handed pitching Eriksen works it's outside the side I'm delivering that didn't quite do what I wanted to Cullenbine started for check the swing and it was in just above the knees two balls one strike now Cullenbine a citizen of Detroit quite a bowler as a matter of fact a lot of all players like to bowl is the pitch it's inside ball three two balls one strike now in the first batter for Detroit in the top of the seven Eriksen looked a little disconsolate after the call on that last one there's no activity in the cup now that's a call strike on Cullenbine who had turned as if to start down the first Cullenbine has been walked more than anybody in the series he's had seven Annie Oakleys now the count on him is three and two on the string she runs up Eriksen's working it's high and Cullenbine is walked again I'd give him eight walks in the series I don't get record-minded on that because the record number of walks garnered by any batter in the World Series is eleven Cullenbine's three of course that was Ruth back in twenty-six in the seven-game series between the Yanks and the Cards the babe was walked eleven times now the batter is Rudy York Eriksen pictures him high and inside the ball one Cullenbine is at first this is York's third official time up today he hasn't hit yet he was walked once York in the series has been walked three times struck out three times two, incidentally swings misses it foul-tipped it went through bumping into the chest protector one ball, one strike centerfielder moves a little to his right to our left on York and Nicholson pulls over to the left to the right fielder pretty good piece of territory between Nicholson and the right fielder line York swings misses strike two Rudy didn't swing with his full full power on that and now there is activity in the cub bullpen it's right for him out there numbering up that left arm of his one and two Eriksen's count on York the pitch strike three ball that's the second strike out for Paul Eriksen Cullenbine is still at first went out for Detroit in the top of the seventh he just tuned in scores six to two in favor of Detroit now here's Louis Jimmy Outlaw he's had one hit out of two official times up right handed batter swings on a foul ball as Cullenbine both for second and the ball goes down into these stands there and Cullenbine will go back to first that's a strike on Outlaw Jimmy batted in a run back in inning number one by the simple process of being walked he batted in three runs in the series he's had five hits out of 26 times up now Outlaw is ready to go again Eriksen pitches high ball one one and one on little Jimmy will hail some down in Jackson Alabama he's very well liked there and I may add everywhere he's a swell little guy there's a throw over to first big boy Cullenbine was not far off that's why we're getting back Eriksen works Cullenbine is breaking and the ball is popped up into short center field in comes Pat Cull under it and Cullenbine halfway down to second beats his way back to first Pat Cull took it on the run for the Outlaw two out top of the seven batter now is Paul Richards right handed hitter who has a double out of three times up and he has driven in three runs this afternoon and five in the series and I had a wire from down in Atlanta and he used to be the manager of the crackers and they said down there we affectionately call him old slug so old slug swings and misses one that's a strike on Paul he's from walks of Hatchey, Texas from right handed hitter swings fouls it off fast to the ground now he's up again he was sort of trying to move himself out of the way of that bitch his bat came swinging around and the ball came off his bat and he ended up on the ground two strikes and Paul's walk they still look first and they're two out Erikson works down low into the dirt neatly held up by Mickey Livingston Steve O'Neill coaching down at third is looking down at the ground kicking the dirt a little bit and I imagine at this particular point his heart is full of joy and nervousness there's a place to Richards he swings on and snaps out the center field it's falling in for a hit it's falling to the left the path college rolling to the wall out there there's Cullenbine rounding 30 he's headed for the play rolls up a second with a run producing double the second double of the afternoon for old Slug Paul Richards and it's his fourth run batted in today and for Detroit it is run number seven and they lead the clubs now by a score of seven to two there's a round of applause for Newhauser as he comes up bats left handed and Erikson pitches him inside for ball one Paul Richards takes the lazy lead off second there not lazy in that sense he's just relaxed Newhauser swings on one slaps out toward center field cap go going to his right takes it nicely on the run that's all for Detroit in the top of the seven one run on one hit there was one base runner left on there were no cup errors and the score at the end of six and a half innings of play is Detroit seven and Chicago two well now just about everybody knows Genial Irish Joe Cronin and the Boston Reds that one of the greatest short stops of all time Joe who has spent more years as a player manager than any other major league is with us here in the booth again this afternoon time ran short when you were on the air last Saturday Joe so let's pick up where we left off you know we say that the Gillette razor and Gillette blue blade are the greatest shaving team on earth what do you say Joe I'm with you a hundred percent on that bill my experience no other combination compares with it for easy shaving right you are Joe that's because the Gillette razor and Gillette blue blade are made for each other and work together perfectly well they sure do a smooth job with my whiskers every time well that's putting it very straight and thanks Joe Cronin remember man look sharp feel sharp be sharp use Gillette blue blades with the sharpest edges ever honed and now it's the home half of the seventh inning and still the Chicago fans are on their feet in the old baseball custom Nicholson is going to be the first hit of the Chicago in the last of the seventh and left to Hal Newhouse who in this series is one one and lost one and is trying to pitch the Tigers into the world's championship in 1945 and doing pretty handsomely right now is on the mound and this young 24-year-old who's a Detroit product all the way started his athletic career in Wilburide high school up there one of the great stars Tiger history this year is about to pitch to Nicholson he does so and Nicholson takes it that's outside ball one Bill Nicholson hasn't had a hit today fouled out once to the catcher and the next time hit back to Newhouse when there's a high foul upcoming back into the stands lands on the screen and lazily rolls out one ball one strike on big bill Nicholson Nicholson has driven in seven runs so far in this series that's more than anybody else Newhouse let's it go it's high and Nicholson fouls it off reaching for a high three quarter speed curve ball on ball two strikes Nicholson's dark complexion he has that menacing attitude at the plate that we've described to you so many times hard passerelle the plate on fire moves out there and holds up the game for a second while some Tiger players in the bullpen down right field get off the field now Newhouse is ready to go and here's the pitch Nicholson swings on it there's a bounding ball down the first yard has it tosses underhand to Newhouse and he steps on first just ahead of Nicholson for the out Nicholson is out three to one and that's another rather slow we have to be to play at first place by Rudy York who is defensive play in the series has attracted a great deal of comment and deservedly so too because Rudy not generally known as a great fielding first baseman has been very, very sharp here in the seven game nineteen forty five series now the batter is Mickey Livingston Palmer G.I. that's right handed Newhouse is looking and it's swing on and stepped out in the left field for a hit Greenberg feels it on the second bounce out there and there's his drip throw in the second first that is the eighth point of the series for Mickey Livingston and he's first one this afternoon and Stubby Overmire is working in the bullpen for the Tigers now the little short Stuffy Michigan man Mickey Livingston first the batter is Suffering Roy Hughes got a lot of friends down in Cincinnati has Hughes pitch throwing is long outside Alventon is now often passing the ball around in the bullpen of the Tigers also then out Hughes attempts to but one that rolls foul he was really wanting to get one down that third base line on Jimmy Outlaw who's playing fairly deep on this right handed hitter and beat it out of course Todd Passau is throwing the ball in the bullpen of the Tigers both managers keeping them all warmed up and in the low break one way or the other they're going to make a move now the Cowan Hughes is one ball one strike Newhouse in the right field line two strikes one ball two strikes just probably Hughes started his base there in the same lots of Cincinnati where he was going losing California now however that pitches well into the dirt it gets away from Richards and going down to second is Mickey Livingston to get the scoring on that for just the second I and just the second I behind it was a wild pitch and roll over to the crowd here while that was happening Mickey Livingston was churning his way down to second that's the first wild pitch that Cowan Newhouse has made in the series and one of the reasons why how Newhouse's production of wild pitches and his wildness has been cured as it has been in the last couple of years is that guy behind the strike right here he was a cage he catcher at 37 and he's seen how the Cowan News is two and two now it's three and two because that pitch was very high the pitcher Erikson is supposed to hit next but I imagine we'll have a French hitter for him if yours can do some business that pitch is low into the dirt bounces into the record glove it's a lot for you I believe that's the first walk today given up by Newhouse and here comes Frank Sicori up to be a French hitter Sicori's coming up as a French hitter this will be the fifth game in which he's hit and he's had two hits out of four times up that gives him as a French hitter a 500 batting average which is nothing to be sneezed at now there are cup runners at first and second there's only one out and Sicori a right handed batter is standing in there there's a curve that comes in and over for a fall strike Sicori's a big athlete with a great big number 49 on his strike he's an outfielder he comes from Fort Huron in the state of Newhouser and a bit of trouble here from the last half of the 7 he's rubbing up the new ball very carefully himself Newhouser looks very calm and cool with breakfast this morning in the hotel Betten and Overmire is still working in the bullpen for the Tigers now Sicori is ready to go again and Newhouser has that ball rubbed up he has two strikes on Sicori now he has three strikes on him a very very clever curve ball that Newhouser on the all-in-one pitch and he got Sicori who was standing taking that makes it two out the batter is Hank Smiling Stanley Camfield Hank the Californian who's been one of the stars of this series that's left handed it's his first time up today and he hasn't hit today although he has 11 hits so far the pitch is close to him and inside ball one Livingston at second with itchy feet he's at first his it's two which the hack is high for ball two two and all the counts and regardless of how this series comes out there's a great figure in baseball with that plate down there Stan Hank now on that mound is a great young left handed pitcher he should have a magnificent career ahead of him Harold Newhouser switching here with very little rest today there's a call strike that he flips in on Hank curve ball just above the knees with the outside corner to the left handed batter now Mayo tries to sneak Livingston at second the crowd warning Hacks swings on that when it goes down well down at 30 steps on third pressing Livingston and retiring the side Hacks hits into a force out he scores Livingston out at third to the third baseman unassisted so in the last half of the seventh inning no runs for Chicago one hit two basemen is left on and we know Detroit errors at the end of seven full innings of play the score is Detroit 7 Chicago 2 tuned in for both famous columnist of the New York Journal American sports staff they're a great reporter highlight today's baseball classic now we're waiting for the start of operations in the top of inning number eight let's take a little pause here 10 seconds for a station identification remember man look sharp feel sharp be sharp use your left blue blades with the sharpest edges ever home this is the mutual broadcasting system listen now at the end of inning number seven our hazard total sparse here Detroit 7 runs 8 hits 1 error Chicago 2 runs 6 hits and no errors and now coming into pitch for Chicago and the top of the 8th inning is called Passo Passo has been as you know one of the great figures in this series pitching up in Detroit one of the most perfect games ever heard in the world series Passo appearing in his third game has pitched 15 and 2 thirds innings he's given up 6 hits he has struck out 3 and he has walked 7 and he is credited with one victory and no defeats in this series when he failed to come through down here he was out and the Cubs went ahead and won the ball game so he was not credited with a defeat or a debit rather with a defeat first batter he faces Jimmy Webb the right-handed hitting shortstop of Detroit Passo is going long inside and Claude is working out there with a badly split fingernail on his left hand when he flagged down a hotline drive the other day which is characteristic of Passo Webb fouls that one off it's a high pop up coming back into the stand one ball, one strike now down in the bullpen for Chicago is Brooklyn's Bob Chipman a leftie one and one is the count that the sturdy from Mississippi Passo has on Webb now the count is two and one because that pitch by Passo was too high ball two Passo working short wind up Webb taking it's high ball three three and one and of course what's up to the Cubs now is to try to get these tigers out of here just as rapidly as possible then come back in the two innings of the regulation length that are left to Chicago see what they can do about this five run deficit here's the pitch high and inside ball four Webb is walked that's just the second walk that Skeeter has gotten in the series and for Passo that's the eighth man he's walked now the batter is Eddie Mayo Mayo has one hit out of four times up today and six for twenty seven in the series Eddie twists his left leg away from an inside pitch for ball one Passo taking lots of time takes a look at Webb was being held on at first by Cabaretta Passo delivers it comes Mayor King's on it swept it down the left field line a high leap my hack went through the ball is rolling to the corner it's being chased by Larry here comes Webb around third coming on in to score and holding up at second with a double is Mayo now the score is eight to two and Detroit has a commanding lead Mayo is at second with a double down the left field line now here's got Cramer coming up let's have the batter who is three for four this afternoon swings fouls it off strike one Eddie Mayo who's double just a moment ago drove in Webb from first after Webb had been walked and who's double with his seventh pitch as Mayo leading off second now feeling pretty good Cramer swings on that one hits it on the ground down to Don Johnson the second Johnson doubles it picks it up throws the first in time and Johnson's quite a juggler a ball bottled away from he reached up in the air with his right hand swept it out of the air threw it to first to get Cramer Mayo going to third on the play one out runner at third score eight to two in favor of Detroit and a stir goes through the crowd as Greenberg comes to the plate Big Hank Greenberg has walked twice sacrificed once and struck out once this is his fifth time at the plate in this ball game pitch is close to him and a little bit high ball one and Detroit's partisans here and their numbers are not legion are shouting for Hank to get a hit they'd like to see him slug that long ball Pastel is walking around on the mound kicking some dirt out of the way blowing his breath on his hand but he does constantly Pastel the fifth pitcher for Chicago this afternoon spells his name P-A-S-E-A-U there's the pitch Greenberg swings on it slashes it out in the left field and Lowry comes in and makes a sensational running catch on it there's the throw to the plate as Eddie Mayo comes in to score easily with round number nine Mayo had to go back to third and touch up Lowry came in made a running catch on that line drive Greenberg's out in the left field retiring Greenberg but Mayo speedy on his feet came in to score round number nine for Detroit that makes it two out nobody on two runs in here in the top of the eighth inning and up comes Cullen Vine Cullen Vine who has been walked eight times in this series steps up there and fouls off the first pitch from Pastel strike one and so the road becomes steeper for the Cubs Pastel delivers a little high Cullen Vine taking it for ball one one ball one strike Cullen Vine has struck out and scrolled three times in this game another pitch to him is high again for ball two Big Roy who got off to a slow start in the series come through in fair fashion he has five hits out of twenty one times up swings on that one there's a towering high infield tap up back on the glass under it is Johnson now second then he takes it for the out that McCarr is aside for Detroit in the top of the eighth inning two runs on one hit when those nice runners left on and we know she can't go out so again the seventh half inning to play the score is Detroit nine Chicago two there was Joe Cullen famous for his after that and he's ready to smile who said earlier today that in his experience no other shaving combination compares with the Gillette razor and Gillette blue blade now I might add that in the army and in the Navy on land on sea and in the air it's the Gillette razor and Gillette blue blade by other bombing odds naturally so the Gillette blue blade and the Gillette razor are made for each other in the same factory by the same skill craftsman to the same high precision standards yes today's Gillette blue blade and your Gillette razor are the perfectly matched shaving combination they fit exactly work together beautifully and turn in the smoothest performance known in shaving remember look sharp feel sharp be sharp use Gillette blue blade with the sharpest edges ever home now the home half of the eighth inning and again how Newhauser returns to the mound and again young Vince Howe will work that left arm of his and he has been despite the fact that he got off in the series to a faltering start and losing that first game at Detroit he has been in the series as through the season the main pitching hole for the Detroit Tigers and it's Newhauser out there today pitching with just a couple of days rest and now he faces Don Johnson the second baseman of the cup he bats right handed Johnson swings on that one there's a high foul feeding back into the stands strike one on Don Johnson got a double he's first time up an inning number one rounded out in the third inning and struck out his last time up an inning number six Newhauser pitches low into the dirt on the inside ball one one ball one strike and young Newhauser this year won 25 games against nine losses for Detroit and last year he won 29 against nine losses and he's bidding here this afternoon for his second World Series victory of the Detroit Tigers now he grips that ball ready to go the one-on-one pitch to Johnson is high ball two two balls one strike Don Johnson drips his bat swings it was swollen South balance and fouls it off two balls two strikes now Hank Wise is warming up in the both ends of Chicago Newhauser taking more and more time with each passing pitch as the game goes on and on into its final stances which is low into the dirt ball three on Don Johnson his activity in the bullpen of the Tigers now too Benton and Overmire Johnson swings on that one it's foul on the ground outside of third base nine to two the score stands and every loyal Chicago fan glued to his feet here as we move into the last half of the eighth there's the three and two pitch to Johnson he swings on it slaps it down to shortstop is taken on the first bounce by Skeeter Webb the throw to York in time Johnson is out by two strikes Skeeter Webb has played a pretty snappy brand of baseball in this series and guilty of only one error and he's had more than his fair share of chances there at shortstop now his peanuts Lowry the former MVP in the army steps up there batting right handed one for three today the goal between us high ball one Bowie's had eight hits in the series out of 28 times up takes a call strike that was a downer and I had a lot of stuff on it that's inside that pitch ball two two balls two strikes on Lowry one out and nobody on in the last half of the eighth winning howl new hauser calmly working winds up left hands it in it's swung on blew down the left field line in comes Greenberg he can't come up to it it falls in for a hit throw Lowry and Lowry is on it first that's his second hit of the afternoon that's how them get out there to Greenberg and left field now comes Cabaretta that is the seventh hit off Newhauser the 22nd hit off of him in the series Bill Cabaretta who's two for three this afternoon steps up there large complexion good looking very quiet pitch stream is on the inside for ball one Newhauser works swung on by Cabaretta and it's hit back on the ground in the center field Lowry is turning his way down the third and claimer feels the ball in the second Lowry is the third Cabaretta at first that was the third hit today for Cabaretta now here's Papto adding right handed he has it triple and three times up today and the pressure is on handy-andy swings on that when it's a high foul coming back into the stand strike one on Papto and here's the kid from the farm country of Wisconsin who were these five brothers used to get up in the morning and now ahead of time so they could get their farm choice done and go out and play some Papto baseball and here he is with his team behind at back with a chance to strike all for his team Chicago Cubs here in the eighth inning of the deciding game of this 45 World Series swings on that one hits it on the ground foul outside at third base scores nine to two with Detroit in front these cubs they're not through yet Newhauser carefully rubbing up a new ball two strikes quickly on Papto he's fouled up two of them the pitch is swing on he strikes out Newhauser struck out Papto and for Newhauser that is strike out number eight in the series it's his 20th strike out affects a two out now for Chicago on the last of the eighth and still Cabaret is at first and lally at third and here's Nicholson Nicholson hasn't hit today hasn't gotten the ball out of the infield takes an outside pitch for ball one Nicholson who was batted in seven runs more than anybody else in the series they're batting left handed swings on one there's a high towering off to the right goes over to the stands but it's going into the stands that's a strike on Nicholson one ball one strike on bad bill Nicholson the big fellow from down in Chesterton, Maryland a fellow who was a kid wanted to go to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis but colorblindness kept him out so I went to Washington College instead graduated and here he is a major league baseball star one and one on him that pitch is down a little bit low into the dirt I think he foul tipped it not sure foul tipped Richard on the hand and Richard is trotting over toward the dugout of the Tigers and there will be time called now Nicholson foul tipped that one just slightly off his bat and he caught Richard on the hand his right hand and he promptly ran over toward the dugout and I think that that will be all for Richard I believe Bob Swift is being waved in from the belt end so Richard has apparently put a finger on his throwing hand and just to keep new houses warm here comes Jimmy Wilson I think to see who that is coming out to warm him up it's young Jimmy Miller so it is coming out to keep new houses warm as Bob Swift gets the tools of catching on he's coming in here as Richard is injured in the last half of the eighth inning that's too bad for Paul one ball, two strikes to count on the batter Nicholson he's batting in the clutch for Chicago in the last half of the eighth as these clubs try to stay in the running Tabaret is at first and Lowry is at third now Steve O'Neill is walking out of the dugout of the Tigers and back to his spot approaching mine third and that'll be all in this series for Paul Richards Richards has certainly done himself very handsomely in the series today he's driven in four runs and this is the seventh deciding ball game for a total of six runs batted in on the series he's had two doubles today which gives him four hits out of 19 times up in the series he was walked four times and he's struck out three times that's a record of accomplishment that stamps him as a tremendous asset to the Tigers in this very very thrilling 1945 series Steve O'Neill has stopped on his way back to third now to say a few words to his son-in-law Skeeter Webb who plays a shortstop and now O'Neill seems to have inspected everything and he's going back to the Tiger dugout and here's Bob Swift Swift who was born in Salina, Kansas he said he thought up until a couple of weeks ago that he was born in a place called Kipp, Kansas but he sort of talked it all with the family and they telling me was born in Salina in a small town outside of Salina, Kansas and Swift as we've mentioned before is known as the best waffle maker in Major League Baseball as if that had any bearing on what's happening right now down there it doesn't Newhauser is pitching to Swift now and Swift is taking his throw down to second now he grabs the mask puts it on and the sturdy fellow is ready to go now here's the situation there are two out in the last of the eighth Lowry is at third Cabaret is at first they both hit Newhauser now the left-handed slugger Nicholson is in there again he's jaw is stuck out at Newhauser Newhauser pitches low on outside ball two two balls two strikes two out two on Newhauser stretches Nicholson swings on it and it's foul on the ground down the first base line that remains two balls two strikes though Detroit has a lead of nine to two this game like all baseball games and that's one of the thrilling aspects of this great American pastime is not over until he puts himself more sharply than Nicholson at the plate now swings on one slaps it on to center field it's good for a hit it's going to the right of Kramer Lowry is already scored Cabaret is rounding third and holding up at third and Nicholson is in the second with a double Cabaret was held up at third as that ball was retrieved it left center field by Doc Kramer and hooked in Kramer has a pretty good throwing arm so Nicholson is at second now Cabaret is at third one run is crossed the score is nine to three and the batter is Mickey Livingston that's the eighth run and it ties him for a seven-game series record with Ghost Guards on the Washington who batted in eight runs in 24 and our Simmons of the A's who hit in eight runs in 1931 of course in a four-game series Garrygan 28 Loven 9 now there's a swinging strike by Mickey Livingston who missed it Livingston batting right handed is one for three today he has driven in four runs in this series he has eight hits out of 21 times up the pitch is good for a cross strike Livingston started for it checked his swing and our Passarello calls it a strike so it's two strikes on Livingston runners at second and third for Chicago two out last of the eight the Cubs firing the rally Newhouse of pitches is high and inside ball one one ball, two strikes Livingston the discharged GI was in the army ground forces he's had his misfortunes in baseball he's had his ups and downs but he's a hard customer swinging strikes out so Newhouse there let's do his ninth strike out of the ball game to retire the side in the last half of the eighth inning that brought one run for Chicago on three hits two base runners left on and we know Detroit errors so the score at the end of eight full innings of this thrilling seventh and deciding game of the 45 series is Detroit nine and Chicago three well you can't afford to miss Bill Cormes highlights of today's thrilling ball game so stay tuned in here a great reporter do his stuff right off the cup and last man is out in this game here at Wrigley field now it's one out there as you know the ball game I think and the killing feelings of that team. Because I've had any male fighting that's behind it. Three in this whole game. Five for twenty-seven. Siri. Alex, you're five. Pass the ball to her. Just above the knees on the outside. I've had it in three months. They'll match the candidate. One for three in this game. I've spent the whole of a patch of life on inside. But he's more likely to share it with me. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I've had it. I think that he finds out who these males think that they're talking to when he feels like it's free. It's not even on the ground. I think too. That was a pretty deep hook away. I looked in the bathroom and he started running back into his left. Now he got it. Now he made the catch. I think we had a pretty good attack there. The first attack comes in, so he gets the ball down, and passes it out to me. And then he split himself. And he's not a gamer. He's trying to be out of the window. And the ball is coming up, and he's rainbowing. And he turns and starts to hang with the ball. And he walks twice today, and he's been walking six times in a series. And he's trying to keep his hand up. And he's not going to play with me. He's trying to play with me, and he's not going to be out of the window. He's trying to keep his hand up, and he's not going to be out of the window. The best is going to the last half of the night, honey. It's no one's arm ring, but now you've got to get out of the house, guys. But they're doing it for no reason. And, hey, here we go. It's pretty genuine, isn't it? Here's the man of the family. The only one that was born really funny. Who strikes out a farm is not right in the best possible state. But I'll say a place, ain't there? It's not a place to be held, ain't it? We're not feeling right here. See, it's not a place to be held, ain't it? But pull him around, won't you understand? I believe that the idea is smart and approachable. One day, more people will come up here. The hammer leads off first, two outs. But the best will go on first. In Berkman eldest child. He had been there for over three years, ten years. He had two golden boards, three and it's been one of the five that are still at that. And I'm sure they've had it in the past, but that's how we've been playing. I've been trying to keep him alive in the games. I've been playing like 10 hits and must've hit him down. I've been playing like 10 times up. While we're waiting, folks, what we've got to do is have a little history and a part. And we have to think about it all day long. That's the reason why we're going to be playing. Again, it's not for the time being. This guy is a lot more than he was he. It's why we're going to be playing. You're doing too well. All right. Thank you so much. The time has come, and we have these different than 1000 players um, That's my mission. So, I've learned how to play, you know, how to practice and practice. laughing Two. I When he moved back out of the bridge, he had a big body cut off. He lived between three and a half years. His family came here all the way to Marlborough. As he had to pass, he was a right-handed hitter, standing guard at Mullen, Gotson, and Earnshaw. He was one of those people who got his body cut off the next day. He was a makeshift. He stayed very fast, and he was a fine worker, and how he was meant for the last time is that he was never spending too much time because he was indicated by the fact that he was one of all three of Charlie Grimm's fishin' out. That's always the kind of life you do in a brand-new restaurant. I could pick what's happening in this area, and there are big paths that roar, and there's lots to see. Like now, never have I been leading it up this series. I think he's a right-handed man. I'm a very fast. I think he's listening, and I think he's more money-bleed. And I imagine that Kramer was dumb, because he's 79 now. He must turn on the absolute right-naiter and he'll earn the taggers which will be around $1,900 and a good thousand dollars. Kramer's a very fast cook. He'll take out the fight. He'll cook out two of the fish in him. He'll cook out two of them and he'll be in number five. In fact he can live his life on a nap. I'm surprised the inferiority of the years is down to the plunder. And I think the size of all of us, all right, I'm delivered, isn't there? Or so I would say. And they walked in to run that day, which is curing the dad-year-olds and everyone was just sitting there. They simply didn't have it at all. And starting right out, I was glad to say all in one time, would check me so you know what I mean. Just a little bit back, and do the, the exact thing that was expected. You know, I remember the box then, uh, record, about two or three years ago, here in the late inning, I doubled down the level of the old man, and there was the arrow of the day of the 1945. Dolly-Tay, as they said, I heard it strange, and then the next period of them getting arrived, and this means that them looking into this game, and I think that, I mean, the dog guy is in the other pocket, and I want to be in the other pocket, and I'm not a gamer, I'm not a gamer, I'm not a gamer, I'm not a gamer, I'm not a gamer, I'm not in a matching con çok, but I don't, there are even people who like the quindiweie on the record, it's like, 26 in a 7 game career, it's between the The action and the tag eats, and that's not the dog. Forget all about it, it's from Di, and what my mind is like, is good for a strike. And I'll show some real push and clim up the day, and then I'll de ange to hook you, and see how it works. It's in the last three seasons here, really secretary of home field school, and the luxury we're at today, When they said, right, sir, should it be a good tune, then? Or is it a good time to do that? Well, it's going to third. But it's not going to be a good time. He had one hit out, but it's going to third base. It's my own side. It's going to be a good time. He came to the foul ball. Let's go and find both for the second. The ball goes down in for the fans there. Come on, guys. It's the third. He's going up here. It's like two to five. Well, it's serious. It's going to third. Starts to third. He's going to get ready. Now he's got to hit it around. Back in inning number one. That's going to be a good run. He's starting to throw very rapidly. He's batted in three runs. Is that serious? It's not a good time to do it. I don't think it's time to do it. Here is Doc Flamer. Are we seeing wide number four spotting hitters? That's what the game so far is about. I'm ready to go again. I think they're getting high. I'm looking forward. I'm listening in. Captain Hank Greenberg has won the quarter. I'm going to join him. I'm going to join him. Yo, this is the next. Well, they'll be coming. Jackson, Alabama. Just keep going. They will like there. And I may add everywhere. You just want to let a guy. That's a great deal, but it was not far off. He was going to have to do much whoever gets back. Get your action. Stolen vine is breaking and the ball is going to get placed on a field. And then a fielding comes half pounder. And a line of vehicles. Half way down the second beat, he's right back to third. That's a long line. And then you go to the top. That's a high third. It does fall in, it comes up. I don't know how his knee runs for the ball. Right handed him, led the double, out of three times up. He has driven in three runs this afternoon, five in the series. I had a wire from down the ladder where he used to be the manager of the crackers and they said down there we were actually calling it a slug. Slug swings, this is one. That's a slug on the ball. And you, the first run, he couldn't get up. The first run comes in and that's tip number three off the road. He takes it from right handed in. He jumps it off towards the ground. And now he's up again. He was sort of trying to move himself out of the way of that, bitch. The bat came swinging around and the ball came down the ground and he ended up on the ground. He's down low into the third. Steve O'Neill, coaching down a third, looking down the ground, kicking the third a little bit. I imagine at this particular point, it's hard to swallow joy and nervousness. Richard, he swings hard, taps out the center field, it's falling into a hit. It's falling to the left of that ball. It's rolling to the wall out there. He's coming back, rounding thirty-seven to the plate. Here comes the ball into second. Richard, he holds up a second for the left, but it's a double. At the second couple of the afternoon, the ball reaches the second first. And it takes more ground than it did that. And for Detroit, it's run up to seven. And the lead comes out as the ball is seven to two. Round to the cross for Newarker, he comes back. That's not that, but Eric's, and that's it inside. And the bird cries out the side wrenches. Makes a lazy lead off second there. God's lazy, and that's the help you can relax. He swings hard, taps out the center field, tap out the center field, takes a nice one on the run. That's all for Detroit, and it's all on the second left. One ball on one hit, there was one base man on the left on, went off the top there. That's the end of six and a half minutes of play. It was Detroit seven, and Chicago two. And now just about everybody knows the genius of Eric Schultz on the left side. One of the greatest short stops of all time. That's six more years as a player manager than any other major leaguer. It's here in the booth again this afternoon. I am reading short when you were on the air last Saturday, Joe. And let's take up some of that talk. You know, we say that's a good place. I'm the greatest shaving team on earth. I love you, man. I would be 100% on that bill. My experience, no other company can compare to me. Easy shaving. Come on, Joe. That's because the gelatois and gelatoid are made for each other. And we're together. Well, they sure do a swoop. I'm the one who gelatois my whiskers every time. I love the thing that's very straight and thick. Remember, man? P-Shark, P-Shark. P-Shark. P-Shark. You can see the gelatois going all the way. It is athletic, very liberal, and makes a little back. He was one of the great stars. Tiger has been a huge part of this. You know so. And, Nickerson makes it its outsides. 1, 2, 3, 4, Nickerson has her hands at the back. They foul out once the catcher and the next time hit the cutting top. Swings on this one. They have a high foul. I'm coming back into the snag. Lans on the screen, One strike, and big bill, no hits, no hits, it's a wonderful high ball game. It's been going in seven rounds so far in this series, as well as anybody else. It's a good ball game, 45-6. There's a line, it's a lead out of the league, and it's a good strike, coming all the way around. New Hauser lets it go, it's high, and Nick is a bad ball, and he will have a three-quarter speed air ball. And ball two strikes. Our new Hauser working very well, I think he's going to talk a lot about shooting, and he has nothing to do with the play, but we had to strike three or so many times. I'm not sure how to play number five. He's out there in the second half of the game, but the second half seems like a play, and the ball is down right, and he'll get up to fifth. Our new Hauser is ready to go, and here's the pitch. There's a downing ball down the pressure, and the toss is underhand, a new Hauser, and he's done some pressure, just there to make some play out. He looked like a very good player, and he's out three to one. He looks like a very good player, and another rather smoothy, as well as the way it's done. He's playing very well. He will tie in the last one, and the ball is two strikes. And the ball is two strikes. Our next week at Lamington, we're in the last half of the game, and here's the tie, and the ball is two strikes. Now the ball is two strikes. Now the ball is two strikes. We're in the last half of the game, and here's the tie. It's very hard to try this out here when he's going to play zone-on and then swept out the middle greve HE to go in to the boundary. The free miriyor is around to 2nd, and there's a dribble in the back of the ball and a 2nd, and he's going to Tri接下來. He's thinking very well, and he's got many things going on there. Once the elbow fire isВste segundo struck then the tie is nowpadded to passe to LHPM. Well, short, Scott Wieb Michigan pass. 39-year-old Grethren, and he has 20% more confidence The battery is perfectly charged like this. A lot of friends down here tonight have been able to get a picture of you on the back of the car. It may fall into a base hitman, but it will not happen. And it just might not happen. I can draw back to the past two thousand strikes. I'll back it right to you. But it's in the car. Who do you have? I'm a stick-runner. But I've got you on the car. What's the problem? You're in swing on the side. I'm on the side. I'm holding on the third. I'm locking them up. He was really happy to go on that third base line on Jimmy Alba. I was trying to tell him, he came this way. There we go. And he did it. Jimmy Alba. Brad Passore is throwing balls. And he's a very kind of guy. Brad manages keeping an eye around that. The seventh game of the World Series here at Wrigley's. And he will not break one way or the other. But I don't know. He's getting a little bit of brilliant down on the diamond. I don't use it. One ball, one strike. You have to put your finger in his eyes. But then there will be crowd down right to your back. Not a strike. Not a strike. It's your style. Not a strike. Stand back. Be right outside. It's a free move. If you just don't throw it, he will slide, and the third base line and the same walks. The other side, he will understand. One out. And you will see the others running around. Not a three and two. And Darren, you have to be child. In the third base line, he's having every five games, and going down back in the game, he has to be like, I know the first one. And Jeff was, I think, not much. It was a wild pick. A wild pick. He's not very good at the third game. The third one was, he was doing well. I was thrown in the dirt. I knew he'd do it, but the fact that he hadn't started with a great new car was a great less advantage over the last three years. I'm telling you, it's not free until you do it. That pitch was very high. I'll put your eggs in as opposed to a hit-back, but I imagine I'll have a paycheck for him. That pitch is low, and we're going down to the bottom of the ring, so that's what I do. I'll put your eggs in as opposed to a hit-back, but I imagine I'll have a paycheck for him. I know you've had the first mothin' day, givin' up by New Houser. I had to go to Spank Shikari up to be a finch-header. I know you've had the first finch-header. I know you've had the first finch-header. I had to go to Spank Shikari up to be a finch-header. I've had two hits about three times up, and it gives him a fincher of five hundred starting every. That's nothing to be ashamed of. The other fincher, the first and second, is only one out. His right-handed batter is standing in there. There's a curve that comes in and over for a two-off strike. We're hitting it one-sixty-number, and there's a lot of scoring out there. The great big number is only nine, but he's an outfielder. One by one starts to come out of the ring. What you're on in the state of Mexico is one and an hour. That's right. That's out of the bag, too. There's a lead-out third. The last half of the seventh open. He's rubbing up a new ball, and there's another lead-out. There's another strike, too. There's a put-it-in through the last two strikes. Two out of the break. The fact that he's running in the hotel. Two out of the breaks. The outfielder's out of the ring, there. That's the outfielder. That's the outfielder. That's the outfielder. Now, Sakari is ready to go again and he has to have that ball out there. He has two strikes for each ball. There's a high-curve. Now he has three strikes on him. There's a high-curve. He's the only lead-out in the state. That was the very big proper curve ball. The outfielder. And then, the outfielder. And he got Sakari to stand him taking. I'll take it. I'll make it through inside the ball. That's the matter tonight. Just smiling at the family of the outfielder. The California. Who's been one of the stars in this city. That's my friend. The people who come up today. They'll have a lot of good stuff out. The pressure on the outside. The end of the season. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. The outfielder. There's a new ball in the right, but he won't set it on the high. Third ball, just about the lead. That's the outlet corner to the left-handed batter. The count on Richard's now is one-and-one. Now Mayo has guys to sneak behind Livingston in the second and the third one. Now nothing goes down. Now the third. He steps on the third. Livingston is retiring this time. He gets in the left-hand side. Let's be a foul line. Now the third to the place to arrive at Basement. From the half to half to 17, no one's for Chicago. One hit, two Basementers left on, and we know Detroit has. At the end of the seven points away, the score is the 27, Chicago 2. Now on this crucial game end of this afternoon, stay tuned in for a bell call, and thank you to all of us at the New York Journal of American Sports. Thanks for joining us today. It's a baseball classic. Now we're waiting for the start of operations on the top of spaning number eight. Let's take a little pause there for a kind of specialization identification. Remember, man, look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp. Use your blue blades with the sharpest edges ever home. This is the mutual broadcasting system. Now at the end of inning number seven, Al has a total of about a third. Detroit seven runs, eight hits, one hour. Chicago two runs, six hits, and no errors. And now coming in to pitch for Chicago, on the top of the eighth inning, is Carl Messon. That's all spent, as you know, one of the great figures in this series. Pitching up in Detroit, one of the most likely games ever on the first pitch. Pass on, a brilliant third game with 15 and two third innings. He's given out six hits. He's struck out three and he's walked seven. And he's credited with one more game and no defeats in this series. And he failed to come through down here by himself and the Cubs went ahead and won the ball game so he was not credited with a defeat or accepted rather with a defeat. First batter he faces is Jimmy Watt, the right-handed team's shortstop in Detroit. That's how Pitcher's towing was low on inside and Claude is working out there with a badly split fingernail on his left hand when he flagged down a hotline drive the other day. Which is characteristic of that so. Two outs in the top of the fourth and Hanks being both. Coming back into the stand. One down, one strike. Now down in the first hand Pitcher. That's one spot kick down on first base in the second half. That's a strike out of the first. Watt is out of there. One-on-one is the count that the starting round-up runner from Mississippi Pass is about to start. One down on that. That's a two-on-one because that takes a lot of time. Three and a half minutes of play, the first hand is Tiger Six. Now in the first inning is not really like the rest of the game. That's a great line up. Watt is taking you in its high. Three and four hits. Three and one. Speed counts for pretty and chilting too. That's about it. Eddie, do you think he's left like right in the middle of the edge? You are one of the edges. They're not married. Coming up on him, working together at back. They give you the stuff, James, if you like. As for the local, you also want you to let life go. If they give you half the time, they can get you out of these. You're all just being held on by Cabaretta. He's shot, you know what I'm saying? He's shot, you know what I'm saying? You should let him play. It's a good shot, you should let him play. Now, I feel like I'm going to get stuck in the middle of the corner. I'm going to get stuck in the middle of the corner. I'm going to go around third coming on into the corner. I'm going to get stuck in the middle of the corner. One ball, one strike. That's themselves five runs on four hits. Three hits coming off Roy and one... He's going to work again. I'm going to be hard. I'm going to have to get my right side of the field. My right side of the field. I'm going to have to get my right side of the field. I'm going to have to get my right side of the field. I'm going to get my right side of the field. Coming back. The first one in front of Dr. Hummer, that's one of the best ones I've seen so far. When you're going to go back. That's one away in my left. The first time. Eddie Mayo, who's the first one to go, has rolled in the first half of the day. And he's double, once his sevens coming up in the standard liver, he's going to lead the ball out of the center and the first one goes right into the bat. Dr. Kramer swings on that one. He's got a long, long pass. Don Johnson, the second shot, he's got a long, long pass. He's got a long pass. The first half of the day, he's got a long, long pass. Dr. Kramer, Mayo going the third on the plate. One out. Dr. Kramer, third. He's got an R, eight to two, and Kramer's a great game. And this year, he's going to play. Dr. Kramer picks up the first one and you'll have a great start right into the big hang. The second baseman. Kramer's a great game. Dr. Kramer's a great game. He's got a long pass. He's got a long, long pass. He's got a long, long pass. He's got a long pass. The first two shot, they're going to get a long one and a little bit past the one. They try to come out as sincere and their numbers are not wide enough. They're shouting for a hang to get a hit. All the teams, let's have long pass. He's got a long pass. He's got a long pass. He's got a long pass. Kramer's a great game. Now, he's got a long pass. Dr. Kramer's a great game. the left field, and Lowry comes in and makes a sensational running catch, aren't there? As the ball is played, as Eddie Mayo comes in to score easily with run number nine. Lowry came in, made a running catch on that fine drive, Greenberg's out in the left field, retiring Greenberg, but Lowry, with a speedy on his feet, came in to score a run number nine for Detroit. As the ball is played by the wind, and makes a two on, putting on, two runs in here, with the top of the eighth inning, and Lowry's coming by. Coming by with a run nine, eight times with a serious step to the end, with the first pitch, and pass it off, strike one. And so the road becomes steeper for the Cubs. As Lowry delivers a little high, Cullen-Bahn taking it for play one. Cullen-Bahn has struck out and scrolled three times in this game. Another pitch to him is high again, ball two. Big Roy, who got off for a slow start in the series, comes through on fast, and he has five hits out of the only one time. There's one out for Chicago here in the fourth. At the time of the game, before I can stop the eighth inning, he's going to stand through on six. On one hand, when no-one's going to stop the honor, and when no-one's going to stop the honor, at the end of the seventh inning, he's going to play the score, is 0.9 Chicago two. Well, it's no fun. Cullen-Bahn is happy when Ryan is ready to smile. For a seven-year-old in the game, and a women's career, no other shaving combination compares with the two-up plays, or the two-up ball plays. Ryan might have an enemy army and an enemy navy, and land on sea and in the air. It's the Gillette laser and Gillette blue-blade that are rolling out. That's what we say. The Gillette blue-blade and the Gillette laser are made for each other in the same fashion. They're the same same fashion, and the same high-precision standard. Yes, the Gillette blue-blade and the Gillette laser have a perfectly matched shaving combination. They put exactly work together beautifully, and turn in the brilliant performance of all these things. Remember, big shot, field shot, nice shot. New Gillette blue-blade, with the sharpest edges ever held. Now the handhack will take 20. And again, how new has it become. And again, young Prince Mac. He works at best armament. He goes it over to first, the score, and he ends the fight. The fight is the last victory to a powering start, and losing that first game at Detroit. He has a chance to win the series after another season. The main thing about the big white-blade is that he's five to one in ten. And he's out there today. And it's a big night left in the middle of the night. Now you're out. Now, he's going to take a little bit of a backer. That's my Monday. He's going to take a little bit of a backer. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. He's got a good spot. They are going to be in New York. Now, it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. Now, you ready to sell? You ready to sell in one-on-one pitch to John Long? So you have to sell five out of three for this round. No hits in one strike. Pathgoes, we know, has had five hits, but you can go to Chicago. He's ready to throw on some fouls at all. New York, Pathgoes swings. He's got the fouls at the right-hand hitter. No, we don't want to go on. That ain't live. First pitch was a game that's held all along. And the Pathgoe hit one down to Skeeter Web at short. He played it very well. It's been a long time since he was in the game. He thought he'd have a better coming down. The game goes on and on. He's far down. All three on Don Johnson. He lost out on New York. One run on two hits. Looks down at O'Neill behind third. These balls, they're in there carefully. And there was one resort. That's the beginning of the ball. The score is fair. That's the end of the match. On the ground, that's the third play. One ball, two strikes. Ball turns it. Ninety-two, the score is fair. And that's the end of the match. We'll do the same here. We're moving to the last half of the eighth. And the game goes to Johnson. He swaps it down to Skeeter Web. The throw to York in time. He's not here by chance. Look, Sharpe, out of coming down to draw. He's outlawed. He lost out on a pretty snappy land in the ice ball in Missouri. That's the beginning of the second half. O'Neill the only runner. That's the end of the match. Now he's peanut flowering. Phantom Bird former MVP in the Army. That's the first time I've been right handed. One for three today. The goal return is high. Ball one. He goes immediately when the outlaw gets up there. Now he's had eight hits in a series. Out of twenty-eight times up. Thanks to Ball's strike. That was a downer. A lot of stuff on it. He pulled up a five to take it low. Ball one. One ball and one strike. It's a count on third baseman Jimmy. Inside that pitch. Ball two, two ball two strikes from Larry. One out and nobody on in the last half of the eighth inning. It swung on and hit just over two. Howl Newhauser calmly working. Blinds up. Left hands it in. Bloop down the left field line. In comes Greenberg. He can't come up to it. Larry is on it first. That's his second hit of the afternoon. He's out of Greenberg and left field. Howl comes Cabaret on it. That is the seventh hit off Newhauser. He turns around. Twenty-second hit off of him in the series. Go Cabaret. It's time for three this afternoon. Steps up there. Dark complexion. Good-looking, very quiet. The screen is on the inside. Third one. They're playing strikes. Outdoor, slides under the page. He saves the second. Newhauser works. Swung on by Cabaret and it's hit back on the ground in the center field. Larry is turning his way down the third and Kramer feels the ball in the second. Larry is the third Cabaret at first. That was the third hit today for Cabaret at. Now here's Cut-Call. He has a triple and three times up a day. And the pressure is on handy-handy. Swings on that one. It's a high foul coming back into the stand. Strike one on Cut-Call. And here's the kid from the farm country of Wisconsin. Who of these five brothers used to get up in the morning an hour ahead of time so they could get their farm choice done and go out and play some tough little baseball. And here he is with his team behind at bat with a chance to strike a great blow for his team that she called up here in the eighth inning of the deciding game of this 45 World Series. Swings on that one. Hits it on the ground foul. Outside at third base. The score is 9-2 with Detroit in front. These Cubs are not through yet. Newhouse are carefully rubbing up a new ball. Two strikes quickly on Pat. So he's fouled out two of them. The pitch is swung on. He strikes out. Newhouse has struck out Pat. Go twice in a row with men on bases. And for Newhouse it had a strikeout number eight. In the series it's his 20th strikeout. That makes it two out now for Chicago on the last of the eighth. And still cover-up is at first and low at third. And here's Nicholson. Nicholson hasn't hit today. Hasn't gotten the ball out of the infield. Takes an outside pitch for ball one. Nicholson was spotted in seven runs more than anybody else in the series. They're finding left handed swings on one. There's a high towering foul after the right of the plate. Richards was over to the stands that's a strike on Nicholson. One ball, one strike on Pat there. Nicholson the big fella. Down in Chesterton, Maryland. Pella was a kid who wanted to go to the United States Naval Academy of Annapolis. But the color blinders kept him out. So he went to Washington College instead. Graduated and here he is a major league baseball star. One and one on him. That pitch is down a little bit low into the dirt. I think he foul tipped it. A ball, one strike. Not sure. I'll tip Richards on the hand and Richards is trotting over to the dugout of the Tigers and there will be time for him out. Nicholson foul tipped that one just slightly off his bat. And it caught Richards on the hand. He's right hand and he can't play. Down over to the dugout and I think that that will be all for Richards. I believe Bob Swift is being waved in from the boat. Richards has apparently played a sports fan. There comes Jimmy Rosa, I think. See who that is coming out to warm him up. That's plenty of blessings. Among them is the thrill we are doing with the good things we've been doing. So it is coming out. Bob Swift gets the tools of catching on. He's coming in here as Richards' engine on the last half of the eighth inning. That's too bad for Paul. No, both stores have this left check stuck at now. You'll have to find one more to play. One more two-tracks down on the batter, Nicholson. He's fighting in the crotch of Chicago on the last half of the eighth of these shots by the stay in the running. That is his first. That is his third. Now Steve O'Neill is walking out of the dugout of the Tigers and back to his spot approaching nine-third. That will be all in this series for Paul Richards. Richards has certainly done himself very handsomely in the series. Today he has driven in four runs and this is the seventh deciding ball game for a total of six runs batted in on the series. He's had three doubles today which gives him four hits out of 19 times up in the series. He was more four times and he struck out three times. That's a record of accomplishment on the part of Paul Richards that stamped him as a tremendous asset to the Tigers in this very, very filling 1945 series. Steve O'Neill has stopped on his way back to third now to say a few words to his son in law, Skeeter Webb, who plays a shortstop. He's been trading by four runs, just cutting up papers to law. Now O'Neill's been trying to strike at everything and he's gone back to the Tigers. Now he swings and now that's strike one. One man was born in Salina, Kansas. He said he thought he was the only guy who's known to strike in Kansas. He seems to try to go out now and that's how he was born in Salina. This is a mighty team which is a small town outside of Salina, Kansas. He's helped their fight and battle. You have to watch as we mentioned this. What is it? The news is strong on that side. He's walked away from the fight and Charlie Grimm comes rocking in to third. He's not having enough. Now he's taken his... Now he's wrapped up near the side and the audience is very close to him. He's got themselves a bit of a round delay on down there. News is taking his chin out at Pasarela. That's what he's in the United States doing too. There are 2 out of 5. There are more. They both hit Newhouse then. The left-hand he's on the ground, but the left-hand is in the middle. And I need to go up, duck out a few times. Here we are ready to go. Now, you can go on the outside, ball two, and the right-hand, he's inside. Ball two, and the right-hand, he walks you on. And the right-hand growls in the far, who disagreed with the call on that last foot. You go on the inside, and the right-hand, he moves, and it swings on it and it's foul. On the ground, down the first, baby. Here it is. Here it is. Count the man, then he's inside. The right-hand goes right three, and he moves his throw again. but he's out of there. he tries to lean on Nile again, he's stuck out in this ball game. he's not close to a game break, that's the one of the thrilling aspects. I don't think he can pass the last minute. there's no one to hit it coming up. nobody is saying that to replace him. he's out. he's trying to hide the primer. Nile is out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. he's out. 224. Newhouse and Lafayette, who lead a bronze game in 1931. Time on every first in the four game series, bearing in number 28, that's in front of him tonight. Now there's a dark wing when I'm out, living to the big messing here behind the catcher. Livingston batting right now has two strikes. One for three today. He has driven in four months. You'll either leave, pass the hole, or you're out of hit. Nice of you. Livingston batting right now has two strikes. One for three today. Livingston started for it. Check the swing and art. Pass the roll, it calls it a strike. Now a new ball put in play. Newhouse has it rubbed up. So it's two strikes on Livingston. Runners is looking at third. It's a little too high. Makes it voluntary, but it's not on style. It's going to the valley. Newhouse of pitches. I had some eyes on this guy. He's going all in. He's going all in. He's going all in straight. There it is. Swing and strike sounds. Charged GI was in the army, going out on the field for Newhouse. He's looking for some baseball. He's got to go on the last power bat. Swing and strike sounds. Now the lead off hitters. Henry Houser. What story does anybody go out on the ball? It's a game to retire the side in the last half of the eighth inning. And then Henry has been turned back. That's what he did. One on and she's got to go. On three hits. But Henry Houser is left on. Then we know Detroit Harris. So the score. It's got eight full innings of this three. The seventh goes side. The game of the 45-0. The second half of the season. He's getting shot. The ninth is this game. There's a goal. Three. Oh, you can't afford to miss. Bill Corms highlights. It comes by swinging. That's a down ball to show. Thank you, man. Yeah, it's a great play for him. He's just done the cup. Just as soon as the last half of the game here at Wrigley Field. So in the last fifth inning, there's nothing across the Chicago Cubs. And the score at the end of the five full innings of play is Detroit six and Chicago two. And I believe it's big one for Erickson who's coming in to be the next pitcher for the Cubs. But Wrigley's officially announced. He's taking the stride in now from out there in left field where the ballpan is located. And while Erickson is coming to the mound, he completes his warm-up pitches. And to occur as the fourth pitcher this afternoon, the Chicago Cubs, let's pause here 10 seconds for station identification. Remember, man, look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp. Use Gillette blue blades with the sharpest edges ever hung. This is the mutual broadcasting system. This is WGA in Chicago serving the U.S.