SPORTING SLANG.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2563, 2 April 1887, Page 2

SPORTING SLANG.

' A oorreapottdeat of the St hm'-.L Qaattftttiikes strong objection to .the' iff use of ip% Siangan the c»w«paimy:v doTourtlie newspaper repetrtav:;^: of fo|i|»ll maifebes, and of coure they;' '■;, adopt the laqguage in which tho rejwvjiV'.-; ier writes, 'They, soon discover that; a the watch;.ja; riot, between but:th.»t iß:a esse of 'teams' who l m „- ; tagonißd*. each other, • Teams'' :Kgy .;. pasg but' antagonise' raajtesooo shiver. ' The"Mteit, again, is a 'fixture/ and' ' ;tbe.,Td6tball is the 'leather/' The • is to .watch the 1 -*: ■ip»l'is>o longer the' goal-keeper,' hat v•■ ;thei ( «asfcodian/ and the goals'thea--'' '■ :selvea,;are the 'etioke.' You. don't.;:•.,.-: 'j-'tnaktf a goal nowadays, you 'achie>a•;::.• •; it,- It iB not even a goal you acbiey^-. : but'the trick/and the moat popular;- ■'■■■ ■■ way.to put it is 'that'you 'do tb'a '•' trick/'. When you .do tho trick "•- you Mower the colors' of your '\ and nhjess they ' equalise' : by doing the trick' too - they W •go pder/ The Bide; that makes a Jf number of goals is saidllo •'« pile on XU W agony.' Cricket suffers : m the Bariiß way.. Tbo wioke.taare fcheT'sfcickß/ v >~ I the bat is the 'willow/ and the ball-ia", ''■;-• again the ' leather.'- The batinfl'u «V never hits the lather, He 'Bnioks' 'draws'or'' swlpV-it;-The■'■ sporting ; ■■' reporter"? ,,<££ ; •■ hardly be pasaediover. There>' one - word which hS fafaMntroduafijito ths -V') smallest .paragraph~:tk word #»#..'• >: ■(Sm persons, eren tholgh f: th,e. footballreportarogularly )( ..ca,nha?e ■> iany idea of tfhat.tho word Mis tojhe ' reporter, Jvei'thA, fowl ohio ia *o* ..... dearer to, th,e ; 4vaw*tiq, critic, Bays' cannot be expected to, discriminate ' ■ carefully, and they, naturally enougi ■..,'■• '. talk like the papers/ This, perhapiV • has.Bomrthing to do with the bad rs§ .■-.'■' football has got among many .pareJ&V >...