Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only surprise man in the lineup is Groudahl in left field. Last year as a Freshman he was regular shortstop but his hitting in the cage has impressed Mitchell so that he has been shifted to bolster the weak-sticking outer garden squad...
Padding about uncertainly in the tumbled sawdust of the big cage, the last three or four lions responded to a cue from outside the bars, wheeled and sped toward the runway leading to their own cages. The crowd that packed Manhattan's cavernous Hippodrome one night last week was up in its seats, streaming toward the exits past the array of jabbering freaks in the lobby. And ducking into the wings with the last salvo of applause still drumming in his ears a small man, in a shirt and breeches that had once been spotless white, shouldered through...
...With the 29th and last "display," the Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus stepped up into another class altogether A rising curtain disclosed a steel cage, 32 ft. in diameter, with a web of netting guarding the top. The lights were lowered a sound like thunder rumbled and syn thetic lightning glimmered. A big, heavy maned lion loped from the runway into the cage, slithered along an upward-sloping row of pedestals until he was crouched on the highest one. Two tigers came in and took their places beside him. Ten or twelve more beasts entered. While some of these were...
With the squad cut down to a more workable size time will probably be spent now on intensive batting practice for so far in the cage the hitting has not been of the heavy slugging type...
...going to work and work hard," said head football coach Dick Harlow yesterday on the eve of the spring practice for his third football season at Harvard. The opening session gets under way today at 4:30 o'clock in the Briggs Cage...