sports magazine cites

[Mullins, Bill]

foolish house

"Theobald Boggles' Football System," Harry E. Corbet, _Baseball Magazine_,
January, 1915, No. 3, p. 81-88
"Well, well, just so I don't wake up in the foolish house, or find it's all
been a bad dream."

blooey (OED 1920)

"In the Bag " A. W. Tillinghast, _The American Golfer_, December, 1914, No.
2, p. 110-115.
"Of course, He couldn't stop me and I got the ground good and plenty,
 Blooey!"

clean up (baseball -- not in OED?  Shulman (American Speech, 2/1951) has
1915)
"Disappointments of a Big League Manager " Hugh Jennings, _Baseball
Magazine_, September, 1912, No. 5, p. 54-56.
"There is all the difference in the world between 370 and 270 in the batting
of your cleanup
man."

"Detroit Notes - The New Home of the Tigers " _Baseball Magazine_, April,
1912, No. 6, p. 86.
"He is still the cleanup man in one of the hardest hitting clubs ever
gathered together and his bat may be depended upon
to break up more than one close game in the coming season."

hopper (OED 1914, Shulman has 1915)
"The Part Luck Plays in Baseball " Wm. A. Phelon, Baseball Magazine, May,
1913, No. 7, p. 33-39.
"Vice versa, a broken bat has rolled many a feeble hopper to an easy scoop,
when the full swing of the
unshattered stick would at least have hoisted an outfield fly that would
send a runner home from third."

ivory hunter (scout.  this sense not in OED. Shulman has 1915.)
"Short Lengths " Baseball Magazine, April, 1914, No. 6, p. 69-72
"Both these expert basepilferers came to the National League from the
organization of which Louis
Heilbroner, for many years Garry Herrmann's head ivory hunter, is the
president."

rhubarbs (not in OED; Shulman has 1915)
"Training Camps " Chas. P. Stack, Baseball Magazine, March, 1914, No. 5, p.
27-30, 120.
Even a kid outfielder will not be expected to make long, hard throws from
the rhubarbs in the cold weather; they can save their wings and at the same
time show their ability in catching the long flies or batting the whirring
leather.

top flight (OED has 1939, as does Shulman)
"The Federal League Race " Howard B. Tyler, Baseball Magazine, October,
1915, No. 6, p. 28, 108, 110, passim.
"The life of a slack wire walker balancing in a jaunt over Niagara Falls, is
not a bit more
nerve racking than trying to settle into a top flight berth in the Federal
league."

Waterbucket, foot in (Shulman has 1919, from a source copyrighted 1913)
"Behind the Scenes in the Spring Training Camp " Baseball Magazine, April,
1916, No. 6, p. 19-20.
"You mustn t put that hind foot in the waterbucket, because  "