Word: caged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...door work has been practicable they have been subject to rigid discipline. Dietary restrictions are numberous, and only the most wholesome and simple food is allowed. The hours for work have been lengthened, and every man is kept to his duty. The candidates now practice batting in the cage on Saturday afternoons, and play hand-ball in the rink from 4.30 to 5 every afternoon; from 5 to 5.30, chest-weights and Indian clubs, and from 5 to 6, base-sliding in the cage. Rumor has it that the batting is nothing to speak of, and that the sliding...
Princeton's minstrel performance was a financial success, and netted a good sum of money for the baseball cage...
...customary work in the cage, consisting of batting, sliding to bases and hand-ball, has been kept up with regularity since Christmas. The men are unusually proficient in sliding, the patent apparatus of Captain Stagg being of especial benefit. Yale men place the greatest hope in their battery, for which they have several men in training in addition to Stagg and Dann. Yesterday the nine left New Haven and went to Pottstown, Penn., where the season will be opened to-day with the Hills School nine. Captain Stagg has taken as many new men as possible on the trip...
...long-expected and anxiously awaited minstrel show will positively come off Friday night, and as the proceeds are for the cage and the minstrel troupe is one of the most popular organizations in college, the seats, although only put on sale this morning, are almost all gone. There are thirty performers and six end men, and it is thought that this performance will surpass anything of the kind ever given here...
Owing to the difficulty of access to cage, caused by the blizzard, base-ball practice was discontinued for several days. Practice has, however, now been resumed and all the athletic teams are hard at work there again. The interest in athletics is, however, not quite as strong, or at least not as evident as it has been, the approaching examinations throwing a damper on all, save the pollers...