The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-08
BASEBALL
LANGUAGE
Some of the New
Expressions
Used.
Constitutes New Slang
Developed by
Enthusiasts.
Mainland Journals Make Much of
the Unusual in Their Ac-
counts OF Games.

Some Honolulu newspaper readers d,
not take to descriptions of events othe.
han in the purest, simplest language
Their baseball reports for instance mus
be served to them in straightawa!
style. without the use of any Of tn,
phrases which in the United States arr
considered as part of the vocabulary o.
the game. The following excerpts from
accounts OF baseball games indicate the
style Of description which is demand
ed and given on the mainland.
Rem Milford. Jr., who handles the
subject for the Cincinnati Enquirer, is
n OF the brightest writer's on the sub
ject. In recent accounts of a game
played by the Cincinnati team in Boston
and ~telegraphed back by him occur the
following paragraphs:
Boston gave another tea party on the
South End lawn this afternoon. The
Reds couldn't scrape up enough tax on
base hits in an afternoon gigging to get
one run over the plate. Colonel Pit
finger. known to his intimates as the
dog-faced boy" parked cheerfully from
the firing line from promising start to
dubious finish, and he was still acting
as collector of the port when the Reds
were dropped overheard into sixth
place. All the velvet accumulated in
New York was used for ~bandages for
the injured at Brooklyn. and today
Cincinnati laid a bolt of sackcloth n
a bucket of ashes in stock.
The Red had no monopoly on specta-
cular work afield, for Pittinger found
the Boston Aid Society in open meeting.
Cincinnati was never dangerous. Three
hits in eight innings looked as lone
some on the Red score sheet as a butch
er at an annual dinner of the society
of the v-egetarians. Only two had reach
ed second. They tried hard to wax up
in the ninth, when Pit hit Donlin
right on his engagement finger The
next pair swished warm babies at
Aubrey, but that youth completed clean
forces with the grace of a Long or
Corcoran. Then Magoon's grounder
shot away from Greminger. The Gin
cinnati contingent rooted for a home
run from Peitz. but the German Baron
pounded the air. Boston hit Cincin-
natl didn't. That's the story of the
game in four words. Although Kel
opened WITH a QOuDle uOWn the ItLl llIlt
and Steinfeldt was hit in the first round
KeI was not able to leave second. Abb
batichio's single in the Boston's end
ave Bergen a chance to show his ac-
curacy Of aim. Aubrey and Dexter
We're the heroes of the second. Their
running catches of flies hit by Magoon
and Peitz were brilliant. Cooley's triple
over Seymour's head and Carney's
jumper to Corcoran yielded Boston's
first. Moran's %grounder Rugged the
grass past Corcoran in the third. and
Pittinger escorted him to second,
whence he scored on Dexter's ~sizzler,
which got away from Kelley for two
bags. AS THE Editor started for third
Tenney hunted. Steinfeldt headed off
leader. and as Dexter steamed
along, attempting TO count, he was
doubled by Peitz's shy TO Bergen.
Again from Brooklyn were wired such
words as these:
Those Red troopers of ours will never
an easier game TO win this year
than the one they permitted Brooklyn
take here this afternoon. Puffed up
with pride in their prowess as hitters,
basking in the pleasant memories OF the
that gave Oscar Jones his first
NlChEL u Lb5L ' dtAGE liz
the day Of small things and they were
Inundated They failed TO conquc- BY
the sign of the hit and run. when VIC
would certainly have been insured
had the old-fashiOned plans and spec
ifcations Of the sacrifice game been put
through. Cincinnati lost, 3 to ,. Three
runs were lost to the Red cause
to have given success-and yet
sheet is clean and there are no visl-
stains upon the Red escut-heOn.
Poole's good fortune couldn't last for
ever. and his g~ive-away business in the
was fatal. Sheckard drew a pass
and stole. Bergen's aim being bad.
gave up his life TO help Sheck
to third. and he scored when McCreedie
a good one to deep center. When
tried to join the annexation
he was blackballed at second by
Bergen.
Had the Reds played a safety game in
the fourth they could have tied the
score. but they wanted a hatful of runs
and got none. Seymour doubled to cen-
ter and instead OF dumping The hall
Donlin lifted It &c center. and as the
next pair followed his example ST. was
on third
This is a specimen from New York;
clarence ChiIds. the fat diamond Gu
,,5 Who spent the days of his base
.art Greatness in Ohio as Cleveland's
md base man. is a self-elected out
from the game. When Childs put
- -. much adfpose tissue as a baby
sI,nonotamus carries TO the bullrushes
.ba morning souse he fell out OF the
.omnapv of with the precipl-
-. bas+e of an aeronaut leaving his