Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-28
SPRING AND SUMMER STYLES
HEARD IN NATIONAL GAME
Some of the Newly Coined Expressions
That Will Be Used on the Dia-
mond This Season.

MONROE. La, March 26-Styles are
like the weather, they change. Every
thing must have style to amount to any
thing, and. having style, everything that
is SO possessed must change Changing
styles is feeding the same medicine in a
different kind of spoon, as it were, or
might be. That is all Jim Moroney's ar
gument- Jim says it sounds right. We
like Jim. and We won't pass Judgment
judge for yourself.
What Moroney was arguing about was
base ball language. Jim says. that the
game has tongue of its own, that it pos
sesses lots of style, and therefore changes
every year.
Take it right now, argued Jim. I'VE
have been here not many weeks, and /
bet you heard dozen new base ball sem
fences hurled over the pan by the boys.
Keep your listeners keyed up and pay a
little attention. and you find out how the
old verbal league gets into new territory
every year
Following Jim's suggestion, record was
popular sentences. There are several new
ones. There are some old, but they Will
never wear out
Ralph Works breezed into camp with a
new one. KNOCK 'em off, yells Ralphie-
The knock 'em off, goes for nothing at
any time. II is yelled when the ball is
pitched. it is yelled at the infielders, the
outfielders, the catchers, the coachers.
everybody, everything. anywhere, any,
time. always. knock EN- Off"
Hank Perry. the illustrious roly-poly
outfielder. planted Are you r-e-a-d-y?"
into the Tigers base ball vocabulary.
ing, the last thing at night. 1t is spoken
in the lobby of the hotel, the dining room
the street cars the clubhouse. the base
ball field and the corridors of the hos
telry.
Below will be found parts of CONVERSE
ton heard daily on the training field
Some will live, others will join the for
gotten list:
IF I was pitchin' barn doors and you
was battin'. you'd swear every door
threw would be the size of a French pea
Every time that boy steps to the plate
Fourth of July has came
Hes the guy that made the big league
clubs build fences out of concrete to save
lumber bills on outfield property
IF you can't shoot them. Texas League
EN-.
strange the leather there you in
fieIders; cut out the cat and mouse act
You juggle that ball as though you loved
it"
THE one I connect with this time will
train couple outfielders for the Olympic
marathon
Heads up all the time an keep alive,
ole top"
Christian Science stuff is the only
thing you ever get on the ball"
Perrys the boy thatn make 'em for
get Home Run Haggerty' ever lived"
The guy that wrote Casey at the Bat
must have had you in mind
You can groove her for this fellow; he
needs a washboard to hit her."
Come on. old fellow; smash her to the
spot Cook claims he discovered
81 hink. me boy; don't John Anderson
the play
slide and make him find you in the
dust
There may be some things as hard,
but it's cinch there isn't a thing on
earth that's any harder than your head
Bling them in and make US feel like
the Toast OF Broadway
Say, Mr.. Pitcher, all you got on that
ball is the cover. and that's ripped
Always let the man touch the home