Clipping:Early use of 'slugging' borrowed from cricket

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Date Saturday, September 19, 1874
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[The American tourists play a cricket match in Dublin] The grounds here are the poorest we have yet played on, being very soft, and the grass in the outfield quite long; so our long hits that would have yielded four and five runs on other grounds have not been good for more than one or two, which will account for the unusually small score. The advantage was altogether with the crickets, as they get their runs more on singles, and we depend on slugging, as they call it here.

Source New York Clipper
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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