New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-17
BdSEBILL ENGLISH is SHE rs WROTE
SOME EXPRESSIONS WHICH MIGHT PUZZLE
SHAKESPEARE AND EVEN AUTHORS
OF THIS DAY.

SOME EXPRESSIONS WHICH MIGHT PUZZLE
SHAKESPEARE AND EVEN AUTHORS
OF THIS DAY.
Baseball English as she is wrote for the edacs,
ton OF the public is lurdy picturesque. The writer
used 10 20 to baseball games Later he became 20
busy that he could not CO. but he read accounts Of
the games with a certain amount Of pleasure and
instruction Finally he ceased TO read about tie
green diamond sport" The other day, however.
he went I'D TO the Polo Grounds y court his Old
love Il was prettily played game and he enjoyed
r. With his interest SIN keen he glanced over
a published account Of the same game. and found
that his Impressions Of H. formed on the grounds
were entirely wrong In the first place. players
who were supposed 10 have family names hadn't
any such useless things. In the paper one was
Midget" Another was "Spul." There was
Fatty" with skeleton" 70 keep him company,
etc Family names, like peligrees. 1t seems 10
not make baseball players.
The FIRST man who came 70 the bat did not make
q base hit He "wallOpel out single The next
dj1 not 10 ANYTHING 50 tame and antique to send
a nv to centre field or rs out He go. real
dcmoniac and "fungocd TO centre The centre
fielder wasn't b; terrified either. for he Rugged
the musty fly" What the innocent lover OF base
ball had taken for three-base hit was nothing OK
the kind. Such conventional things are not allowed
on the BTOuu4H - HdH 'D'-- '-' ~@-0
I, was a "whistling trplet.'
A fielder id not catch a high fly. He connected
with a balloon rs" and the young man who was
rash enough to follow up this phenomenon was not
pu, OUT at first base. lie arranged his own funera
and died an easy death at first. Catching mas
gone out OF fashion entirely. When player
catches a ball he Is fined by the umpire FOR insult
ing the intelligence OF the spectators He clasps
a high one" or "hauls IN a fly or pulls
throw down" @-
II seems that at this game. according to the
published report. an active player ID wings on MS
heels and tabasco sauce in his armsJ lie. ~
WAS perfectly tame and tractabe when not ar
ruping scrapers" or shaping out dandy Singles
or "laclng an easy one" or "siashing out peaca
There was a Incorporating young man on one VI
the teams who ala not look as II he would mar" .
ny bu, h. was really hend incarnats. for ne ue
lrerately AMI IN cold blood "unchanel a $3.50;
with hts willow and tore out the grolhd p~DA "
+; isn't safe 70 judge by appearances one pave,
seemed 10 Jog along 70 hrst D'se w" 80 bsssSsl
gave him his base On balls Bat the t uaS .
Shakespeare denies this malicious chdlsr. Nv IA
that ne "ambed - the bag NJ same , ,s
not steal second base. He piferel J.. A'1os' -
he was a pretty disrepuabe iel3~ LOT ss I'm, s-.s
robbed the visitors Of third ms cirtI :. S asn
was checked. however, for when ne t'lrL - Ss,
bczzle the plate" he was nailed. though % "AA'
Tn. nlavers ali had peculiar gaits some OF men
rallopsd some OF them romped, some OF mem 49,
.ered Some OF them scampered some OF t a.aa
..n,t.l 20 second some OF them 'trotied hsss
one man even got 50 mixed up IN his seasons ta.c
Though II was as hot as TOphet he "toDoEgane. !"
third" But not soul OF them ever wa.Neu , VI ,
one man evidently JEALOUS Of tne forms OF no
lion possessed by his brothers In DE- orm.y' A-NsN
rOoed 10 second. ,, .,,, the IN.
A batsman can DO lots u things maj w on
sophfsticated person would never cream ~. an
his dav one man. who had three strikes caiie' "a
him 'cut the plate with three cai!el JAN sss.s,ir"
other flied softly" and Denny ru4e slsssih
so in spite OF the stabbng and cntung anu msn
ing there IL sometimes rural genueness' a liz, liz
10 was excited sent A sizzling grounder ra'us ny
through the legs OF somebody. ana anothel' ~
was roilteness Itself famed the warm ar. U.
rlaver sent a biffer past second. ana h h,s
knoopel A mushy abaft first Nothln tin 20 y,
nsned though 10 the lee scuppers. Speaknys ~
batsmen none Of them used Dai. O hhyyohoT with
40 FAR forget themselves as - play baseOan w., 49,
a hat and ball These men welded me ASH 49,
willow handles and "toyed with me Spnere The
PAYERS never get put out IN ue>' ua!S, nm
methods OF disposing OF them vary Sone s'sy,rSs
10 sleep some are allowed 10 angus III 80 a,
and some are tortured 10 death In tns game 80
vividly described one man 'groped VahS o ~. .ss
elusive" and played dead on the oench w VA al
'coppered al first" and another was clnu,nnss AZ
The plate" Still another expired IN ansuss" xss
first and an unoffending but unpopular your" "
"smothered TO death at second. ,.. ,sa-,d
There IS a suspicion the part ~ ienaefr h.ss-
,sonJe ,hat football IS a rough game As lor g sas
hail the PLAYERS only wa.lop cut. arrup bas'e, sss
snieeze nip freeze. slap. pike, lace, cincn. ssoks
bin punch pound, scrape tobogsan' Sho'"e' W.
and strange - - t,cr, Ia. the bid