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Eddie Cantor Subs

Bill Stern Sports Newsreel · July 25, 1947 · 14 min · 2,728 words

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See the G-A-T-E. Okay, presents the Bill Stern Show starring Eddie Carter. Bill Stern, the Colgate's shape remain as far away. This week is his vacation time to rest and play. And part of night while he's away to take his place, we're glad to say that Eddie Carter will be here.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Bill Stern is away on his vacation, but in his place tonight, Colgate's shave cream is proud to present Eddie Carter. And in order to keep this show just like Bill Stern's regular program tonight, Eddie Carter will tell sports stories that are taken from Bill Stern's popular book entitled

My favorite sports stories. So here we go. Eddie Catter, pinch hitting for Bill Stern, with sports stories from Bill's book. Ladies and gentlemen, Eddie Catter. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. In the years I've been on the stage and in the movies, I've played many parts.

But this is the first time I've played the part of a sports announcer. Pinch hitting for my friend Bill Stern as a storyteller. I think it might be fitting if I started out with a curious sports legend of the last century.

It's a story about an English sportsman. According to legend, many years ago in England, a sportsman went to a race track to bet on a horse race. He had been losing heavily and he decided to quit the turf of good, but not before he had made one last feeling.

So he returned to the race track and on the final day of the meet, he played a hunt. He wage it all the money he had on a beautiful horse. However, there was one catch to it.

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