Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-03

i Sluggitt Corners ball nine were given much
TO love making They were gently occu-
pied too much with higher things, sech as
KILN sacrifices, nippin' long flies close to the
fence, and battin' out home runs, to think O
the winnn' ways O womanklnd. Soakln
ten-shn' ball with Louisville slugger bat
where it'd do the most good int rested EN-
more than kisses an caresses. And yet, when
one of em fell in love, he went in head over
heels He did good job of it. There were
no half way measures Take the case O Long
Arm Leary as an example.
None of us knew that Leary was IN the
danger zone, as you might say, till he was SO
lovesick he was spoutin po'try. The light
that lies in woman's eyes had ketched him ten
feet off the base. Cupid's arrows was stickln'
out all over him so he looked like porkypine.
He blows into the hotel one night ruther late,
his two lamps lookin' like meltin' searchlights
@ sweetness, an proceeds to w'istle, ZEN
You Know You're Not Forgotten by the Girl
You Can't Forget" an Twas Ever Thus
an so
Say" says he, some O you high brows
tell me- watts a knight errant?"
Nobody knows but Chopemout Clancy. He
draws himself up, slants his cigar in his face
till it near burns off his eyebrow, and says
"Leary, you re in love-.
Leary gets mad, and rips out brisk word
or two, and asks Clancy how he came to be
so wise, and what if he is in love.
"Oh, knowed," says Chop; " been there.
S S09s erqs stag eh YSrs n ee
undertake great an noble deeds for her sake;
amt that it? Speak up!'
Il dun no how you come to know SO many
things that amt partic larly your dunn bust
ness - says Leary. Il jest asked you, in
plain language what knight Grant is
III forgive you your crool words, Leary,
SAYS Clancy :" know jest how you feel I've
been there A dozen years ago | was jest as
anxious as You to know what a knight Grant
is, SOS | cd be l was ready to let the
hamin torch O love lead me to great deeds
an better things"
"Shucksr' says Tin Can Curry. "Cut that
out, that highfalutin gush, and tell us W at this
ere knight Grant thing is like! Nobody cares
how the flamin' torch O love blistered you.
Tell us what you did wen you was knight
Grant p"
Clancy jest ignored Curry, who, though he
is dainty base stealer, is a rough brute when
4 it comes to refined conversation So Clancy
says:
Il did find out what it was to be knight
Grant an it means you must, tor the sake
O. your lady love, undertake some specify
dangerous duty to prove your affection an
devotion. So made up my mind I'd prove
mine on the baseball di'mond, an invited her
to the game the next day In the old days
knight Grants used to make long journeys
to prove their love; but Iessallna, witch was
my girl, says nowadays there is little things
round home W ich you can do to prove your
self worthy of young girls affection.
$50 she came to the ball game an out of
fifteen chances that day made sixteen errors
because couldn't keep my eyes off of her'n in
the grandstand. And then, in the ninth
inning to win the game, l decided to let
the ball hit me to force in run and tie the
score, and got a Whit the head that put
me out for twenty minutes. l woke up just
in time to see the beautiful Tessaina walkin'
off with the pitcher that hit me, and laughin'
wen he said was thick headed mutt
so | cut out knight errantin' They amt
nothin' into it. Tessalina married the pitcher,
an he lost his arm runnin' the clo'es wringer
for her; and now he works for six dollars
week in grocery store. So my advice, Leary,
Is to cut it out
We all concluded when we'd heard Clancys
narrow escape, that if we wanted to keep
classy hitter an probly the best first baseman
in the bus ness, we'd better discourage the
knight Grant game O Learys; but, as luck
would have it, the football craze hit Sluggitt
Corners about that time, and we forgot, an
Leary KEEP Wis tin his fair every evenin'
an gettin' crosser than ever that he couldn't
find no great deed to do to show her she was all
the world to him, and all that truck.
Then the idea got into his head that the
football field the place to be knight
Grant Where, he iggered, could body be
in greater danger than when facin' a squad O
charging savages bent on beatin' you down
into he tearin' limb fro,