The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-06-19
Sporting Terms.


good. stout baseball bat and II wei
made bali. Find "A convenient window
lay the bali down on the floor and
knock out all the flies YOU want to-
"ris good exercise. develops the mus
Gle and prevents the coming Of sev-
summer. OF course, the ball has
nothing tn do with this sort of Il
"lSnucking out flies" game. We lust
put the ball in To get the attention
Of the baseball fans.
CAUGHT AT kTRST-This is "A
term often seen in the box score st0r-
les OF the game-ball game. that is
and also quite often heard in police
courts. If The fellow who appropriate
ed your new straw lid, for instance,
is caught at first, you're liable To- get
your lid back and he's liable To get
thirty days. II he's not caught ill
the last of the summer, however, you
don't give "A hang for the straw.
You're just sore at the officers be-
cause he got past on their error.
EATER UP-Ths is a term often
used in baseball particularly by the
jumps II may also refer {" smart
Young gentlemen who get battered up
when they get too gay.
DROP kICK-This Is sometimes "a
football term, but is quite often heard
IA newspaper Offices. especially down
in IN. circulation department, where
subscribers appear AT the window
nearly every hour of the day and kick
about the paper boys who pass them
up once i'm IL while. IL costs the ne
glcctful kid k-nickle every time you
drop kick" too.
CALLED BECAUSE OF RAIN
Many baseball games, played when
the weather Is threatening, are call
ed because of rain" AS the Surface
Portage game at Isle Royale last Sat
urd;,y afternoon, for instance, when
Portage, after being hopelessly
trimmed, stalled around so IT would
rain before the full five innings were
PLAYED and IL would be declared no
game"
NSSCUTTFsR- This is a sporting
term used by copyists among baseball
writer's. who cannot make up their
own slangy ball talk, To refer Ia the
slashng bingle slammed out along the
ground into the outer gardens. IL is
also used in referring Ia papa when
he's showing the lawnmower about.
Darbcring the grass about the front
door The lawnmower proposition,
come To think about it, is "A good ar
pumrul for womcns suffrage, Tor II
women get To running the land thtN
might Just as well run the lawnmow-
ers. too.
YEROUT-This is term used 10y
Umpiros to denote to the batsman or
bascrunner, generally a bonehead, that
b, is "a bum in getting To base ana
quite often results in an argument III
which everyone talks To the jumps III
,ndcaring terms. He draws his pay,
however. for furnishing this sort "i
amusement and is happy. An UNI
pirp quite often lasts two or three
seasons, but generally not more. IN"
average jumps is generally good for
about one game
MAGNATE-A term employed To
denote the easy mark who backs
baseball team aud settles fortunes on
huldouts, furnishing much good copy
Tor the sporting editor.
JINN-Term generally accepted as
synonym OF "hoodoo," but in realitE
should he applied Ia the general pohe-
headedness. glasseye- sureness and all
around inability Of bunch 81 so
called ball players that succeed III
dropping straight bunch Of games
on which you have your money-Suci
as in the case of II certain team o'
the American league.
Yen wore nlantinu our farm inns