Word: cage
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Varsity baseball squad which when first called out amounted to sixty men has now been reduced to two nines with several substitutes and the fall practice is ended. The spring practice will begin in the new cage on Soldiers Field about the first of January and only these men together with the battery candidates will be called...
...early completion of the changes. It has been found necessary for various reasons to alter the plans somewhat. In the first place, the widening of North Harvard street, which will be begun next spring, by the city, will cut off twenty feet from the field. The new baseball cage will be located between the Locker Building and the baseball field, nearer the street than was originally intended. The body of the building will be 105x60 ft., with projections on the ends which will increase the total length inside to 150 ft. This is done in order to give room...
...buildings to be erected, it is in the first place necessary to improve the present locker building and to build a cage for the use of the nine. It is hoped that enough money can be raised for a baseball pavilion to be placed behind the backstop, and also for small locker houses beneath the seats of the football field for the greater convenience of the players. The steel seats now on Holmes Field will be moved over during the summer to form the side seats for both fields, and money must be raised to build new steel ones...
CRICKET PRACTICE.- There will be no batting practice in the cage this afternoon...
...members of last year's 'varsity baseball team began work in the cage March 8, joining a squad of about fifteen men, who had been selected from the early candidates. On Monday the team was able to practice out of doors for the first time. The opening game of the season here will be played against Rutgers on March 31. The training table will be started about April 8, a week before the team starts on its southern trip...