Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cheered by a large early turnout of about forty men in Briggs Cage, Coach Skip Stahley of the Varsity lacrosse team is looking forward to the oncoming season with confidence. In addition to the candidates for the Varsity, several likely looking Freshmen have been working...
...squad has been hampered by lack of space and time for practice, no line-ups have been formed as yet. However, Stahley has announced that practice will be held in the evenings for a while in order that the team can get more time in Briggs cage...
...Columnist Heywood Broun three weeks ago, "is the fiercest looking thing I have ever seen on two legs. And probably his power and truculence were all the more impressive because he did look a good deal like a distant relative. No one was allowed to go close to his cage, because Gargantua can reach about five feet through the bars and get a toe hold on a visitor whom he dislikes." Gargantua may not be the world's biggest captive gorilla-since the death of Berlin Zoo's monster, many zoos have claimed that honor for their gorillas...
Last week the circus' executive vice president, young John Ringling North, nephew of the late John ("Three-Ring") Ringling, was inspecting the circus' Sarasota, Fla. winter quarters. Imprudently disregarding warning signs, he leaned against the bars of Gargantua's cage to rest. Gargantua reached through, got no toe hold but wrenched Circusman North's left arm into the cage, bit & wrung it until Trainer Richard Kroner, pounding the gorilla with an iron stake, distracted its slow attention...
...Quad Meet, which took the place of the Triangular Meet three years ago, begins Saturday afternoon in the Briggs Cage at Soldiers Field when the 35 pound weight throw and 16 pound shot will be contested...