Word: caged
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first of a series of handicap field-event competitions, similar to those conducted last fall, will be held in the baseball cage at Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. This afternoon the contest will be in the broad-jump and tomorrow there will be a high-jump contest. The shot-put will come on Monday and the pole-vault on Tuesday. There will be three contests in each event and the winners of the greatest number of points in each series will receive cups. Entries may be made with Coach Quinn at the Cage before each event...
About 246 men reported yesterday for the first practice of the University and Freshman track teams. Of these, 210 reported at the Gymnasium as candidates for the track events, and 36 reported at the Cage for the field events. At the Gymnasium, after light preliminary exercises, the sprinters practiced starts and ran three laps on the 130-yard board track on Holmes Field and the middle distance men ran ten laps. The distance men in the 3.30 o'clock squad took a slow road run. The baseball cage proved to be an excellent place for the field event practice...
...hurdle events should report at the Gymnasium today, and regularly every day hereafter, at some one of the following hours: 11 or 12 o'clock in the morning, or in the afternoon at 3.30 or 4.30 o'clock. For the field events, practice will be held in the baseball cage at the same hours. Men may report each day at whatever one of these hours they find most convenient, but as many as possible are urged by the management to come in the morning, as the afternoon hours are usually crowded. Mr. Lathrop will be at the Gymnasium...
Owing to lack of ice the University and class teams did not hold practice yesterday. The members of the University squad played handball in the baseball cage to keep in condition. The following men were taken on to the University training table in the Union yesterday: Briggs, Foster, Leonard, Paine, Rumsey, Willetts...
Preliminary work for the University team will probably begin immediately after the Christmas recess with practice in the cage. No coach has as yet been appointed. Candidates for the Freshman team will not be called out until the mid-year period...