Word: cage
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Active measures are in progress at Princeton towards the construction of a base-ball cage...
...ball, etc., before the time comes to go on the field. The contrast is made greater by the fact that our nine, by its geographical position, is debarred from out-door practice until several weeks after our opponents. Besides this, the 'Varsity is compelled to give up our small cage to the freshman nine and to the lacrosse team some part of every afternoon. Again, the light is very poor, and effectually prevents any good ball work. All these things can be remedied very easily next year, if the ball management takes the matter in hand early enough. With...
...people think, and Capt. Willard decided early in the season that a light but systematic course was the one to be adopted. This course has been varied but little during the year and is substantially as follows: Three times a week the game of handball is practiced in the cage by squads of four men from fifteen to twenty minutes a day. As soon as the time for one squad is over and the next one is ready, the men go through a light dumb-bell drill, and then take a run at an easy pace of about seven laps...
...himself says that the nine have remarkably good prospects for a successful season. The old superiority which Harvard has held at the bat bids fair to disappear from Cambridge, only to emerge in the vicinity of New Haven. The daily practice which the Yale men take in the cage, especially at the bat, has shown marked improvement since the beginning of winter, and if Yale's prospects were good in the fall, they now, at the beginning of spring, are better than any college ever had before, not even excepting Harvard a year ago. Kellogg, who was change catcher last...
Prof. Richards is earnestly working for the new Yale gymnasium. He has petitioned the building committee of the corporation for the lot at the corner of High and Elm streets, where the base-ball cage now stands, on which to put the building, which will be the largest and best equipped gymnasium in the country...