Word: cage
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University and Freshman teams were kept in the Cage yesterday by the cold wind, but will be outdoors on the first warm...
Practice for the spring season of University and Freshman track teams will start today when all candidates for either team must report at Soldiers Field between 2.30 and 5 o'clock. Field-event men are especially needed and should report to Coach Powers in the Baseball Cage. There is an excellent opportunity for distance runners and these and all others must report to Coach Donovan. No previous experience is necessary and everyone will be given a chance to make good...
...baseball team will practice outdoors today for the first time, if weather permits. Practice will be held on the second team diamond until the University field can be put into condition. The team has already made progress in its development, for the battery men have been working in the Cage since the middle of February, and the fielding candidates, who were called out about a week ago, have been practicing batting, running bases, and stopping ground balls...
...Drury closes with the following admonition: "Let men under thirty, of good education, consider the call to be all things to all boys. Let the men in the cage downtown, who see life through a wire mesh, put the problem of bonds versus boys. There are many misfits and many sad dislocations. Let the man who has mistaken a chance vacancy for a vocation think twice before he spends his life persuading himself that the one is the other. There are men selling dry-goods who ought to be breaking bronchos; there are men in the mills who ought...
...first regular batting and fielding practice was held yesterday afternoon in the Cage. About 20 men reported for the University fielding positions, and ten Freshman battery candidates. H. L. Nash '16 has charge of the latter for this week, and next week, when the Freshman fielding candidates are called out, H. E. Reeves '12 will have charge of the whole squad...