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Thursday, June 29, 19G1
THE BATTALION
Sportswriters Say Things Tunny’
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Writer
Sports writers have expressions
all their own. Many of them ap
pear determined not to use the
actual term on any occasion.
In baseball they wouldn’t dream
of saying innings, third base,
second base or outfield. It’s frame,
hot corner, keystone sack and
garden.
Some refer to innings as chuk-
kers (polo term). Frame comes
from bowling.
Some call a home run a circuit
smash, a four-ply wallop, a round-
trip-per. It’s asking too much to
call it a home run; that’s too color
less.
A hit is a “safety.” A long, lazy
fly is a “can of corn.”
Writers in other countries might
be puzzled at these expressions un
less they spent a baseball season
in America.
Sports writing in Mexico is
CENTURY STUDY
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L. Bowers, Louis A. Piazza,
tin
and Max Rhinehart.
Named to Group II—Research—
were: R. E. Wainerdi, petroleum
engineering; J. C. Ramge, veter
inary medicine and surgery; R. J.
Hildreth, Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station; W. W. Meinke,
Engineering Experiment Station;
R. O. Murray, student affairs; A.
F. Isbell, chemistry; Mugh Mc
Clellan, oceanography; Sewell
Hopkins, biology; M. E. Blood-
worth, agronomy; and Bruno Zwo-
linski, chemistry.
Student appointees to the re
search study group are Julian B.
Coon, William N. Lipe, and Wil
liam H. Flynt.
Named to Group III—Extension
•—were: R. G. Cherry, economist;
C. F. Hall, veterinary microbiol
ogy; Paul Hensarling, education
and psychology; V. G; Young,
state agricultural agent; J. Wayne
Stark, Memorial Student Center;
Joe H. Rothe, district agent; W.
G. Adkins^ Texas Transportation
Institute; Tad Moses, agricultural
editor; and Coleman Loyd, phys
ics.
Student appointees to this study
group are Cary W. Horne and
Bruce B. Johnson.
Named to Group IV—Services—
Were: R. L. Smith, Data Process
ing Center; Reed McDonald, feed
and fertilizer control; W. F. Ben
nett, soil chemist; H. W. Bad-
gett, physical plants; Joe E. Da
vis, commandant; Dougles F. Par
ry, education and psychology; V.
E. Schember, Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station; and Jack
Gray, foreign programs.
Student appointees to this group
are Malcolm W. Hall and Homer
Lee Denning.
unique although it’s actually only
a question of that country having
its own terms.
It might relieve the monotony
of American sports writing if the
Mexican style translations could
be substituted if just for a few
days.
A pinch-hitter, translated from
the Spanish, would become “an
emergency batter.”
Instead of “the runner scored
from third base” it might be “he
consummated a run from third
base.”
You don’t scatter hits if you
are pitching. You “isolate” them.
Innings become “episodes” and
when a pitcher hurls an eight-
hitter he “accepts” or “admits”
eight hits—he doesn’t just pitch
them. And the opposing team has
to “digest” those hits.
There is the line, “They were
able to break an uninterrupted six-
defeat chain.” The American sports
writer would say “They snapped a
six-game losing streak.”
Another Mexican baseball story
revealed that the team had a “six-
run xally in the first inning.” They
rally quickly and get it over with.
Waiting brings too much tension.
An intentional base on balls be
comes “an intentional passport to
first base.”
“Amid a cataract of hits—” said
one colorful translated lead. In
America it would be “avalanche.”
It must be opprobious to score
an unearned run because they call
it “a dirty run” or say it was “un
clean.” They don’t like unearned
runs in America either but they
don’t call them “dirty.” They’re
“tainted.”
A player “erred at a heavy slug.”
In other words the player thought
it was too hot to handle but the
sports writer thought he ought to
have caught it, the bum.
There came the expression “he
slugged a quadrangular.” That, of
course, was a home run. In
America it would be a four-ply
wallop.”
Don’t you think “four-ply wal
lop” would mean more to an Aus
trian or Frenchman than a “quad-
rangular?” Even the Americans
might not understand if somebody
called it a home run.”
Houston
Baseball
Colts To Conduct
Clinic, Try-outs
The Houston Colts, major-league
team to be a member of the Na
tional League in 1962, will conduct
a baseball clinic and try-outs in
.Rockdale on July 6-7, it has been
announced.
The clinics and try-out camp will
be under the direction of Colt
Scout Red Murff, former star
pitcher in the Texas League and
with the Milwaukee Braves.
The clinics will begin each day
at 10 a.m. All youngsters attend
ing must be 16 years of age or
over.
In Rockdale, Murff will be
assisted by scouts Gus Mancuso,
former major league catcher and
batterymate of Carl Hubbell;
Larry Smith, former infielder in
the Brooklyn Dodger organization;
Hop Priest, coach at Columbus
high school; and Ernie Laurence,
Rockdale high school coach.
The lineup of tutors was re
leased by Murff in a letter to the
press this week.
An All-Star game between the
all-stars of the camp and the Rock^-
dale American Legion team will
climax the Rockdale camp.
A scholarship to Johnnie Carri-
gan’s Big State Boys Baseball
Summer Camp will be awarded to
the outstanding boy in the Rock
dale camp, courtesy of the Hous
ton Colts Baseball club.
Laurence explained. “The finest of
professional instruction will be
available, and the scholarship to
be presented is a prize award for
some youngster,” he added.
“We are looking forward to hav
ing boys from College Station at
tend the clinic and try-outs,” offi
cials said.
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