The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-07
ADDED To
BASEBALL
VOCABULARY

u------------u Casey. Inc one
.nnUn M time captain Of the
! BASEBALL Tiger team has
VOCABULARY added an express
--n sive word 10 base
BALLS dictionary, which already has
Brander Mathews and some OF the
other purists groggy and hanging ON
| the ropes whenever they glance at the
sport page of one of our metropolitan
organs of publicity.
Gillette Is Jim's new word. He
PULLED it on Bob Lowe, Frank Navin
and several others at the Detroit base
ball Office and II escaped momentarily,
which was largely due TO the inter
esting nature of the narrative IN
which il was pulled" Later on II was
retrieved. choked into submission and
is here presented 10 the public.
AS Mr.. Webster would say:
Gillette-jllot; n. The act OF
PLAYING safe. Syn" Sidestepping
four flushing.
(In.-Smith might have retired
the side by making difficult
catch, but chose to turn off Gill
lette 10 save his record.
Jim applies the term exactly as ii
is defined. There, DIS everyone ac-
quainted with the inner circle of base
ball knows. certain class of players
who are out 10 keep their records as
clean as possible When one of these
men Is offered hard CHARGE, which
| in case Of failure may bring him an
error, he makes an apparently sincere
effort to get the ball but rails, often
to the sad detriment of the winning
qualities Of mis- team but always TO the
advantage OF his own record.
| Some players have been known 10
| develop into such artists at this form
| OF endeavor. as TO fool even the man
ayers who employed them. They are
seldom able TO fool their fellow play
ers long, however. A man accustomed
| 10 accumulate cluster of "Gillettes'
becomes rapidly unpopular with his
mates. for the "Gillettes" don't tend
to winning ball and do often initiate
in the scoring OF errors to other play
ers when the real blame should be
otherwise apportioned.
ANY time" says Casey, you see
man start slow for a fly ball and
finish up with a burst of speed, just
rs he gets near It, only TO fail TO reach
Il by matter OF inches, he's pulling
off a Gillette. He was afraid he might
drop the ball If he reached il and the
sprint was all for effect. Any time
you see u man stick out one hand nj
a ball he could have handled with two
but didn't want to try, because II was
coming at a bad angle, it's another
Gillette Watch the players that go
shifting round from team to team in
spite OF excellent fielding records,
Nine times out OF ten. they're fellows
that are pulling the Gillettes in about
every game"
They've abolished the hopples again,
but watch the track owners ignore the
rule, The withdrawal of hoppled pac-
ers would make far too large hole IN
the entry lists Of the average meeting.
The new rule IS one that Is likely 10
cause a Zig schism and the formation
OF another big racing organization
which will permit their use. So much
for simple little piece OF leg har.
ness.
After huge toll and much solcitp-
ton, his friends have raised 81 800
for Young Corbett Perhaps. under
his revised scale Of expenditure. this
NAV last the one-time champion a
month
Pitcher Vance is living up 10 the
unique record which he has estab-
lished during his prior career in base.
bail lie has already changed handa
twice this season and is due for an.
other shift In a few days.
Look for no more pitchers, is the
hectic order that Bobby Lowe recent
w received from one OF the veteran
twiricrs. And really IL doesn't look
as if Lowe would need TO be particn-
larly yigilant in this respect. IN view