Word: cages
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale batteries have begun training in the cage...
...candidates for the freshman nine are doing regular work in the cage every day now catching grounders, sliding bases, and starting. The best men for first base are Lighthall, Rogers, Caswell, Stevenson; for second base, Dreyfus, Phelan, and Dodge; for third base Lawton, P. W. Whittemore, and Worman; for short stop, Mills, Cassatt, J. K. Whittemore, Adams, and Wilder; for the outfield, Bent, Bacon, Bigelow, Floyd, and Winslow. Two of the pitchers are working under Keefe, the others under Downer. The best men are W. T. Smith, Reed, Webb, Coonley, and G. L. Smith. The good catchers are Bacon, Eddy...
...pitchers as a rule are too light and lack speed. The catchers are good backstops, but as far as the work in the cage shows are poor throwers. The men as a whole lack snap and put very little heart into their work. They do not go in as if they realized that two important games with Yale and perhaps one with Princeton are to be played which can be won only by faithful and hard work. There is a tendency to shirk the sliding and running especially. About 18 men will be kept practising during the Easter vacation...
...nine, as yet, has been compelled for the most part to work in the cage, but if this good weather holds on the progress should be very rapid. The work in the cage has not materially changed. The men spend considerable time in starting from bases and sliding. In addition they take a quick run, and finish with some dumb-bell work...
...Tuesday an artist made several sketches of the batteries and candidates for the nine, practising in the cage. They are to appear in Harper's Weekly...