Clipping:A complaint about baseball writing

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Date	Thursday, July 22, 1869
Text	Again, we have before us the report of a base-ball duel in Philadelphia, in which we are assured that one of the clubs “did splendid play;” that one of the players “made two magnificent hits;” and that “the Athletics” have a “splendid nine.” Possibly, these are superlatives which might have been properly used by the laureate of the Olympian games, but when applied to a game at ball, they strike us as somewhat excessive. We once heard a young lady declare a cup of coffee to be “gorgeous;” and we remember another who expressed her admiration for a clergyman's person by averring it to be “noble and pretty.” This was the result of an intellectual indolence which resorted to adjectives because it was too much trouble to remember nouns. We entreat all teachers charged with the castigation of young women's “compositions” to strike out all adverbs and adjectives. It will do the Misses no harm whatever.
Source	New York Herald
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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