Word: cage
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...definitely settled that the gift to the college of $25,000, made by H. R. A. Carey, will be devoted to the erection of a "fives court," in which the nine will be able to practice batting in addition to its present exercises in the "cage," as it will be lighted from above. The gift was accepted last fall, as Mr. Carey's decision to leave college liberated the corporation, in his case, from its policy of not accepting donations from undergraduates. It has not yet been decided just where the new building will be placed, as the authorities wish...
...Princeton Base-Ball Association is having difficulty in collecting the money subscribed for the cage...
...team. Quackenboss and Knowlton will doubtless play. Henshaw, Linn, Willard, Campbell and Boyden were all of them heavy batters last year, and Quackenboss and Knowlton have the reputation of doing good work with the stick. The number of candidates is large and practice regularly every day in the cage at handball and sliding bases; also in battery work. The prospects are not very encouraging. Captain Henshaw will do all in his power to make a winning team out of the material that he has, but he is hampered by the regulations against professionals, which the faculty persist in enforcing...
...Princeton ball-cage is nearly completed...
...hurdle has been placed in the Yale base-ball cage for the benefit of the hurdlers of the Mott Haven team...