Show OFFICE BOY TALKS ON BASEBALL Bug Is Contagious and Seems to Be an Epidemic This Season Open the door and let the fans down the steps for is in the air sang the Office Boy Bo r as he dropped a small piece of ot rosin into the Sporting Editors overripe pipe The Sporting Editor looked up from his dope sheet put out a big hand which the Office Boy shook ion Sit down said the Sporting Edi tor The Office Boy sat down and watched I the Sporting Editor fill his pipe inno with a vicious stringy strIng black to bacco The TIle Office Offic Boys freckles stood but out bright and yellow ellow agaInst a white face when the man who tips off oct horse rages races ra es and tells why prize fights dont come off put a burning match to the loaded bowl bo What s doing dO asked the S E Sport ing Editor when the pipe was drawing to his satisfaction and to the disgust of the society In the next office Baseball in the Air Nothing but o began the tl nervous O 0 B Office Boy squirming In his chair hair Why dont that rosin get busy bus he asked himself under his breath Baseball Is in the streets in the vacant lots in the air and everywhere ever where The schoolboy hooks hn his hie Th and chooses up sides with the bunch On every vacant corner in this burg you can see Ee eighteen kids howling their young lungs out overe home runs slides and drops Theres nothing doing but baseball and spring fever Over Overworked worked mothers plead in vain with their young oung hopefuls to beat carpets The hope fuls cant beat carpets Their business arms are too sore from shoving the leath leather er and sWinging the hickory School teams are getting together buying ing new uni forms learning yells and breaking the neighbors windows with foul tips But the kids arent suffering alone Every store has a team The Elevator Boys Bos beat the Ham TIam Shavers last Jast Sunday Sunda The Coun ter Jumpers are going goin to play the Tea The Coal v viii ill play pla the 1 men Sunday Down on some ome cower corner y can see a bunch of young with Your credit aint good hood done in pink across their red shirt fronts practicing to play the Chiropodists Baseball Great Leveler The Bankers are out with a challenge to the Millionaires Sons who vho beat the i Bell Hops H ps last week Everybody body what t I belongs to something or does something i for a living is in a baseball team If you dont do anything for a living you youcan youcan youcan I can get into int a team anyhow Theres plenty to go 10 around Go through the res section of town and you Jou can see men playing ing catch with the I i butchers boy Baseball Is a a great leveler If you can play ball you are on Easy street with plate glass windows in your house bouse The fans are p practicing up too When you ou go past a respectable looking house and hear henr someone inside inide shouting Slide you mute mut Hit em Youve warmed that bag long enough don dont thing Its a nut college or a The noise is being made by the push of off the household Hes practicing up for the f coming season Everyone Ever one from the jani tor to the man what owns the building Is getting gettinS a summer attack of bleacher itis iUs and in the air will come out in the park The Bug Is Universal People who have been hibernating be beside beside beside side their fireplaces for the past six months are now out in flannel trousers and talking about curves and mobbed umpires The business man stands yawning at the door of his place of business watching the rush passing and wondering how the next game is go Ing to come out The millionaire forgets to count his days earnings when he lie sees in the paper that the Plumbers will wUl play the Safe Busters on the following day The baseball brain aint held to male altogether The ccok cook burns the hash dreaming of ot the day when she site will wear war her mistress hat and make a anoise anoise anoise noise like a cheer heer in the front seat of the grand and stand Her mistress starts off for f r town to shop but ab absentmindedly gets ets on the car with the To the Base ball Park on it She forgets ro et all about shopping until the last black spice space on the score board has been filled Why Thy the fever Is so bad that even Maggie s baby brother has a new bawl haw What else the Office Boy intended to say was never said for the Sporting Edt Edi Editors tors tor pipe flared un no like a young Fourth of July Jul and the Office Boy stop running until he st into the lake What the Sporting Snorting Editor E does to the Of Office Office Office fice Boy when they meet will be told in inThe inThe inThe The Heralds funeral notices at a future date |