Word: caged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Athletic building on Homes Field is progressing rapidly, and when finished will be a valuable addition to Harvard Athletics. It is to be of plain brick, with a slate roof and skylights over the tank, cage, and courts. The entrance is from Holmes Field, the door opening into a large hall. Opposite the entrance is an open fire-place. The rowing tank is placed in the left wing and is designed after the one recently arranged. A large dressing room lined with lockers leads off the front of the rowing room. The right wing is occupied by a base ball...
...prospects. The work of the candidates is watched daily by a critical audience of undergraduates. The pleasant weather of the last week has permitted out door practice of which Captain King has not been slow to take advantage, and if the weather continues favorable the destruction of the cage will not have proved so severe a loss as was at first feared. The candidates have been reduced to fifteen and regular training will be commenced next Monday. The ultimate make up of the team will probably be as follows: catchers, Brown lee '89, Brokaw '92 and Brown '92; pitchers; King...
...outlook at present for a strong team seems good, though nothing definite can be ascertained till the men go to work on Holmes field. As the cage is used most of the afternoon by the 'varsity candidates, and men training with Mr. Clarkson, the freshmen take light general exercise with the chest weights, bumb-bells, vaulting bars, and then have a short run. Churchill and Hill, candidates for pitcher, under the instruction of Mr. Clarkson have made very considerable progress, and Bell's strained shoulder is much better, so that the prospects for a battery are brightening...
Captain Noyes of Yale has been unable to work for a few days on account of an injury to his back, received while practicing in the baseball cage...
...candidates for the Brown University nine are working under the direction of Buffinton, of the Philadelphias, in the new cage which has been fitted up under Sayles Hall...