[Ads-l] Antedating of "Jinx, v."

[Pete Morris]

Here's another cite, possibly 1912 or not long after.

Asked if it were true that a cross-eyed girl was a jinx to a player he 
replied
"It takes less than a cross-eyed girl to jinx them  sometimes"

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Santa_Fe_Employes_Magazine/WnMhAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22to+jinx%22&dq=%22to+jinx%22&printsec=frontcover


Just for clarity, is this a specific baseball term?  Or would jinx as a 
verb in other
contexts count?  (I don't follow sport at all, and baseball is a 
complete mystery to me)



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>From "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
To ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date 08/08/2022 01:49:25
Subject Antedating of "Jinx, v."

>The OED's first use for "jinx" as a verb is dated 1917.  Edward J. Nichols, An Historical Dictionary of Baseball Terminology 39 (1939) cites _New York Tribune_, 21 Apr. 1912, although it is possible that the usage cited is as a noun.
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>Fred Shapiro
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