Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-10-03
A SLUGGER'S METHODS.
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE "GENUS
HOMO" SPECIES "PUGIL."


His Youthful Days-The Boy In Train
ing-A Not Over Choice Vocabulary.
Getting Anxious to Appear Before the
Pubiio-Resdy.
The infant "pugil" is not TO be distinguished
from other infants. 1t is only as he grows in
years that those peculiarities develop them
selves which stamp him as a son OF Pollux
Should fortune smile upon his birth, and his
friends have interest enough in him to obtain
for him post in the saloon Of some veteran
pugil, his virtues ara soon discovered. The
watchful eye Of his experienced master soon
detects the native boxer, and the old warrior
determines TO bring ont the young aspirant
Now the training Of pugll commences in
earnest-not the training which is practiced
in schools, but quite different sort Of thing
He is taught, not to spell, but TO run a mile
In five minutes: not to write. but to brandish
dumb bells: not to read, but to flourish clubs;
not to cipher, but oo suffer.
pair of horsehair stuffed gloves is bound
upon his hands; he is placed in an easy, un-
constrained position; the left leg is advanced
rather moro than half yard; the left foot
firmly but lightly planted on the ground,
while he rests upon the toes only Of the right;
his head is erect: his right arm is held across
the body few inches in advance of his chest,
his left low down, with the elbow in a line
with the hips, but swinging loosely from the
shoulder-haying complied with which con-
ditions be Is initiated into ali the mysteries of
hitting" and "counter-hitting" stopping"
and "in-fgh;ing", the suit in chanceryn, and
the "cross buttock' and on special days, when
few choice toughs are assembled at the festive
board in his masters hospitable abode, q
brother pug" is set before him and the par
mobile fratrum have the privilege and salts
faction of hammering each {. hers faces and
bodies with the gloves to the mingled admira-
ton and CONSERVATION OF the distinguished
spectators.
A CHOICE VOCABULARY.
A change is now observable both in his
personal appearance and his vocabulary; his
hair is cropped closer than Of yore, so that
more ear is shown than is usual; his nose pre-
sents fatter and more polished surface than
before, by reason of the frequent application
Of the gloves; the bridge, too, is little in
dented; his cheek bones also protrude unnat-
urally. and a constant grin is to be seen upon
his face, as though he felt the absolute neces-
sity OF always being in a good humor, al
I
rier for the grin partakes little Of the surly.
Furthermore, he abjures the Use of vulgar
tongue and adopts that Of his fraternity.
/ He calls his brethren the Fancy" he has 10
longer head, but a nut his hair is wool"
his forehead is his "frontispiece;' his nose is
his -conk; :" his eyes are peppers" -ogles" or
goggles" his mouth is his potato trap or
~iSser;;" his teeth are -ivories;r his face is his
snug" his hands are -daddles;" his fists
| "mauleys;" that part of his body which re-
ceiSes his meat and drink is, by singularly
beautiful figure, denominated his ~bread
basket" and his les he describes fguratively
as pins or jocosely as understandings"
| That fluid Of which Harvey demonstrated
the circulation in the human body he speaks
Of as "claretr or "carminer or ruby in
differently, and the extraction of the same
from the olfsctory or any other organ by
violence, he, with that love of tropes which
is characteristic of his species, describes as
turning on the tap" or drawing the cork"
Copious and expressive, however, as is his
vocabulary in respect to some things, it is
even meager with regard to others. This Is
most noticeable, perhaps, III the case Of per-
sons connected with the administration of
justice, every one of whom, from the highest
judge to the lowest police officer, is a -cop, the
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