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Bill Stern Sports Newsreel · January 31, 1947 · 14 min · 2,497 words
The transcript of “Bucky Harris”, an episode of Bill Stern Sports Newsreel first broadcast January 31, 1947. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Bill Stern Sports Newsreel plays Bill Stern Sports Newsreel free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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C4LG, ATP, Colgate presents Bill's Turn. With the Colgate, Shape, Creams, Sports, D'Israel. Bill's Turn, the Colgate, Shape, D'Man is on the air. Bill's Turn, the Colgate, Shape, D'Man is on the air. Take his advice and you'll look in your gankety of Colgate, Rockless, and Pan.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is Bill's Turn, bringing you the 377th edition of the Colgate, Shape, Creams, Sports, News, Real, featuring strange and fantastic stories. Some legends, some hearsay, but also interesting. We'd like to pass them along to you.
Our guest tonight is the new manager of the New York Yankees, Sparky Harris, but before we bring you a bucky-harid person, let's begin with real one. Partly of a championship at this week, when a good part of this nation lies under a blanket of snow, when the Midwest is in the grip of a blizzard, when the wintry winds are howling,
when children are racing downhill on their sleds. I think of a story of a long ago of another winner of other children, of other sleds, of sleds long since broken and forgotten, of children long since dead.
For this is the story is told to me from out of a past, and yet a story that will live each winter when children once again go coasting in the wintry snow. Back in the early 1890s, according to the story, in northern Michigan where winters are long and cold, the children from all over the state used to gather at Iron City for the shred racing championship
of Michigan. This particular year of 1891 was no exception. Children came from all over the state to compete in the Michigan championships. The race was down the steepest hill in Iron City. And day after day, the children raced each other. Until finally, there were two children left. A young boy from Detroit, and a young girl from Ann Arbor. These two were to face
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