Word: caged
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fall baseball work in no way tends toward the formation of a team. It is held simply for the purpose of examining the material with a view to rendering the judgment of the spring work in the cage more fair...
...cage work the squads are usually too large to permit of an absolutely satisfactory test being made, so that it will be to the advantage of every man who intends to come out in the spring to participate in the fall work...
...present season there were in College four of the regular members of last year's team. With this substantial nucleus to start on, the whole University was thoroughly canvassed for promising material by Captain Reid, and an unusually large number of candidates reported for work at the cage. New systems of practice were adopted in the cage, by which each man was given every possible chance to show his ability in real baseball. In place of the old regime of three grounders to a man, plays were substituted which were modelled exactly on those which take place in actual games...
Work on the repairs to the Rotch Building to fit it up for a mining laboratory has progressed very satisfactorily. On the floor of the old baseball cage concrete bases have been put in position for the stamp mill and Huntington mill. Another room of the same area as the old cage will be built on the east end of the building and fitted up with assay furnaces and other mining apparatus. All repairs on the building will be completed by October...
...heavier work of fitting up the mining laboratory in the Rotch Building has been compteted. The old baseball cage has been removed and work on the concrete foundations for the stamp battery and Huntington mill has been started. The larger pieces of machinery will probably be put in place before the one of this month...