Show len que q baseball mi by BILLY EVANS sportswriter league and general manager of the cleveland in deans I 1 got through in first american I league vague game my baptism of fire you night might say without a hitch I 1 had gained experience that was to prove invaluable to me in my career that was just unfolding the next day an aa matter of 0 course I 1 turned to the newspapers halt half hoping but not really expecting to see some word about me there it was all right billy evans who calist from the 0 and 11 I 1 league which sounds more like 11 e a brand of corsets thau than a base va 1 to mn j 4 t h dark clark griffith ball organization made his american league debut yesterday there was no riot T there h ere was P ft brief reference to my work which I 1 fall to remember the only tiling thing that sticks out Is the humorous cra crack e h about the corsets a morsel wore more that clung to me quite a while too sometimes a little wise crack in a newspaper sticks to a man and try as he will he be cant shake it on off for tuna tu tely the corset reference stick long enough to make a real goat out of we me among the players otherwise they might have made life ike miserable for me but shortly afterward I 1 again fell victim to a newspaper mans humor arid and this time the ap 1111 1 pe pel atlon lation applied to me stuck charley dryden then on the philadelphia adelphia la north american and one of the roost most famous sport writers that ever lived was its author charley was the originator of most of the sport slang of his day among sport writers the faculty of being able to originate catch phrases and slang names in 18 regarded as somewhat of a distinction distl netlon it if they stick take today I 1 for instance the originators of those famous sporting phrases the wild bull of 0 the pampas as aa applied to lula luis firpo the heavyweight and the four horsemen of notre dame in reference to the famous backfield of notre danias dames equally al famous football team really contributed tri buted something to the national vocabulary these phrases struck the public fancy and they hung on and their originators were proud of them well charley dryden was good at chat that sort of thing and he be exhibited a little of his brand of humor at my expense in a ball game in philadelphia shortly after the opening of the 1001 season new york was playing philadelphia la that tiny day and during the course of tin the game dark claric griffith now president of the washington baseball club and thea manager of the highlanders High landers was coaching on first base griffith protested one of my decisions so BO strenuously that ali at 11 I 1 was forced to send him off the field and so peeved was vas 1 I i that I 1 followed close on his heels to make sure that he left 1 I wanted to be thorough the next day Dr account of the game contained substantially the fo lowing passages the old fox has met his lils match at last dark clark griffith who talks the most convincing line of baseball argument known was forced to take the i count at tho the hands of the american leagues latest importation a college bred umpire it Is reported that sir avans Is a linguist he Ile speaks seven languages including the language of 0 baseball lu in all its variations and inflections 11 griffith found himself all tied in a knot in this classic battle of the kings english the little controversy ended in clark s being bellig given glyen the bums rush after excusing mr air griffith from the ball game fearless nil bill evans gave the old fox a personally conducted tour to the exit all through ligh Dr account of the episode lie he made constant reference to fearless bill evans avana of course it was done for the sake sate of humor but fearless bill stuck to me like lik ewall wall paper the players applied the tha name to me 1331 1931 dell bell syndicate Ser service 11 |