Word: cage
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fielding candidates for the 1920 baseball team are to report dressed to play to Coach Ball in the cage this afternoon at 3.45--o'clock. The University squad has just been cut, and there is now plenty of room in the cage to handle all Freshmen who are coming out. Until weather conditions permit outdoor work, practice for the Freshmen will be similar to that of the University squad. Last year the Freshmen were not called out until the 13th...
Practice yesterday consisted mainly of batting and fielding. The squad was lined up and grounders were hit to them from the other end of the cage. Until the weather is milder and the men are able to practice outdoors, Coach Duffy intends to emphasize the work in fielding, principally in handling grounders. The entire squad will soon be divided into four divisions with regard to ability so that the most efficient use may be made of the limited space in the cage, and the men may receive the maximum amount of coaching...
Candidates will be expected to report in the cage three or four evenings a week for practice until weather conditions permit the squad to get outdoors. Freshmen will not be called out until the University team has gotten well under way with outdoor work...
...events have been added to the winter track carnival on Soldiers Field and in the cage which starts today. They are the 1,000-yard scratch race which will be run at 4.30 today and the 35-pound weight event which is to be decided tomorrow. The races this afternoon will begin at 3.40 and the field events at 4 o'clock. Men who have taken strength tests, but have not signed up in the blue books for any of the events, will be allowed to compete today and tomorrow...
Today is the last day for signing up for the winter track carnival to be held on the board tracks and in the cage on Soldiers Field tomorrow and Thursday afternoons. Blue-books are at Leavitt and Peirce's, the Locker Building and the Freshman Dormitories. As the program includes running and field events and novice, handicap and scratch competitions, all participants will have the opportunity to compete on an equal footing with the track stars. Prizes will be awarded to those who place in each of the events. Each event except the four-lap novice race is open...