Origin of "jazz"--Hickman is unreliable

[Mark Odegard]

>From: "Baker, John

>Hickman said that the ballplayers referred to a natural spring as
>having "jazz water."

Referring to a geyser as jazz water, i.e, jism water, seems obvious. There
geysers and bubbling hot springs up there.





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