The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-05
BASEBALL ENGLISH
SHOCKS FOREIGNERS
Britishers and Others Stand
Aohast at Weird Accounts
of Games

NEW YORK, June Am English gen.
teman, actively interested in the field
sports Of his own country, landed in New
York not long ago, and to the friends
who met him, expressed the wish to see
a game of baseball, the. national pastime
of which he had heard SO much, but with
which he had not the Slightest acquaint-
ance. His. willing friend was anxious to
please, and suggested that before making
a pilgrimage to the baseball grounds it
might be well to read some Of the re-
ports of the games as described by the
able young men employed by the sport
ing departments of the New York daily
newspapers.
Their expert criticism and explanation,
1t was assumed would make the stranger
more or less conversant with the game
in advance. Taking this advice he bought
before long was clamoring for an inter
prefer, a dictionary and cold towels with
which to enfoid his madly whirling head
piece. In less than one column of space,
these are some Of the fragments which
staggered his understanding:
tCheSboros slants were too crooked for
Bay to size up. Bradley boosted a cloud
skim to FuItz. Turner turned Keeler's
swift hopper over to Schwartz. FultZ
got first by bouncing slow one over
Dusty Rhoades' noddle. Elberfeld wal
lOped Wickedly, but Lush grabbed it as it
was sailing over his head Fultz got too
gay around second, and was pinched a
mile by Rhoades' quick snap to Tur
Schwartz slashed a hot one that near
ly took off Chesboro's pedals, but Will
liams dug it up in style and got it over
in time. Rhoades raped a liner through
Chesboro,s hlppers, and the latter after
chasing it up made a crazy chuck to
Camel, and the batter ambled to sec
ond.
didn't have to take a step to get the
globule. Keeler'S tabaSco tap bounced
out of Rhoades' hands. After Flick
lambasted a screamer to right, Elberfeld
endeared himself to the hearts of the fans
by getting in a luscious one-time soak
over second. Flick fiocked to the plate
on the lick, Williams tossed Bemis
grasSer to Elberfeld, blanketing Turner,
and Rhoades raped the breezes. -Four
dopey chucks started Lajoie Rhoades
made three mutty stabs at three step
ladder shoots and sat down. Bemis float
ed to Williams, after he had made mess
OF it when he trapped Chesboro'S fungo
FOUL Williams got in cheesy single
that hoped over Rhoades roof, Ander-
eel did the proper eaper by sacrificing and
dying Oh first. Anderson was run down.
at the plate when he tried to score on
McGuire's mushy splash
The baffled Briton gasped: 'My word
| fancied they played the game with
bat and ball. but neither of these
requisites is mentioned once in this ex-
traOrdinary piece of literature I thought
| might learn the hang of a new game
but swear don't feel like graphing
with foreign language
The incident Suffices to show that base
ball has bred a language of it's own. in
tell1g1ble to great multitude of Ameri-
cans else such stronge jargon as this
would not fill space in newspaper of
wide circulation: And yet to foreigner,
and to many Of our own people the de-
scriptien would convey scarcely more
meaning than so much Sanscrit A literal
translation dug out by perplexed
Frenchman would be an amazing per-
formance.. A specimen paragraph thrs
treated will be enough, by using simply
the dictionary equivalents in English:
The 1nclinationS from direct line or
level Of Chesboro were too crooked for
Bay to measure. Bradley lifted from be-
meath -cloud-to remove floating matter
from the surface, to aFuItz. Turner pre-
senteds Keeler's swift one who or that
which hops. Fultz obtained first CD by
bouncing a slow one % over Rhoades'
head (used contemptuously). ElberfeId
boiled vigorously with much noise, roll
ing and bubbling, wickedly. but Lush
grabbed it % as it (?) was sailing over
his head. F'ultz became too gay C?)
around. second CD and pinehed (painful
pressure of any kind) five thousand two
hundred and eight feet (from what, and
WhyO, by the quick, sudden effort to
seize with, as the teeth. to Turner