Word: cages
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Nineteen Hundred. There are surely more baseball men in the class and it is thought by the management that some are waiting for the outdoor work to begin before coming out. If there are any such men they should join the squad without further delay; for this preliminary cage practice in sliding and fielding is of real practical value in preparing them for out-door work. The Freshman class turned out a good eleven last fall after a poor beginning and must now make the effort to do the same in baseball...
About thirty-five candidates, exclusive of the battery men, are still practicing in the cage. The material as a whole are light, but the men are taking hold well and show great improvement over their early form. The sliding has progressed more rapidly than in former years owing to Captain Dean's personal attention before the 'Varsity candidates were called out. There is still plenty of room for improvement in almost all the men, especially in throwing and quick starting...
...started and the following men taken: Simpson, Langford, Bailey, D. F. Rogers, Mills, Whitney, Marsh, Campbell, Parkhurst and Patterson. The freshman crew squad has been reduced to 23 candidates. Some of these row on the harbor daily in an eight-oared barge. The baseball candidates are doing the customary cage work and have been coached recently by Mr. W. F. Carter. The candidates for the track team are in preparation for the Y. A. A. winter games to be held March...
CRICKET TEAM.- The following men are expected to report in the cage of the Hemenway Gymnasium on Saturday from 1.30 to 3.00: Adams, Scattergood, Webster, Gray, Logan, Dupont, Hastings, Byrd, Morgan, Kennedy, Rawle, Haughton, Blanchard, Scott, Wells, Waters. Wear rubber-soled shoes...
...preliminary baseball practice has been inaugurated. For over a week sixty-two candidates for the freshman team have been practicing in the cage under the direction of Captain Wilson and several of last year's 'varsity nine. The number has now been reduced to twenty-eight and some promising material has been developed. All candidates from the other classes have now been called out for the cage work. These men have been doing light works. in the gymnasium for the past two weeks. Arrangements have been completed for the introduction of the game of basketball into Princeton. The matter...