Word: back-stop
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...dirt floor of the baseball cage is now carefully raked and rolled every morning. A netting back-stop has been put up and the wall at the pitcher's end has been white-washed...
...examinations. Of the twenty-three men who have signed thus far, about one-half are pitchers or catchers, and these meet Clarkson every afternoon at appointed times in the Carey Building. The dirt floor of the cage has been spaded to get rid of the frost, and a back-stop of netting has recently been...
...suggest that the lacrosse management place tennis or back-stop nets at the east end of Jarvis next Saturday in order that long chases after the ball may be avoided. It is very tedious for the spectators to have the game frequently called to a halt while the referee chases after the ball beyond bounds...
Jarvis field is receiving attention and will be properly marked out for the use of the base-ball team. A new back-stop will be erected and a home-plate will be laid...
...noted carefully the irregularities on the field when it was covered with snow-ice; and unless the gentleman would wish to cover the back-stop fence, I am convinced that five or six inches of water would make as smooth a field of ice as three or four feet would. Every winter a mass of snow-ice accumulates on Holmes Field, sometimes to a considerable depth; none of the dire calamities which the gentleman predicts would follow artificial flooding, have ever yet occurred, and I am sure a few inches of ice will have no perceptible effect on the field...