Word: cages
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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DEAR SIRS - Through your columns I should like to call the attention of the gymnasium authorities to the condition of that part of the gymnasium known as the cage. The only fielding practice that candidates for the freshman nine can get there is in trying to stop seven or eight grounders every afternoon. This practice amounts to very little at any rate and is reduced to almost nothing by the condition of the ground. In five cases out of ten the ball does not bound within three feet of where it is expected. It ought not to require a great...
...candidates for the Princeton nine have been at work in the gymnasium for about a month, under the direction of Superintendent Turner. Their work has consisted almost entirely of light dumbbell and chest-weight exercises. Capt. Young expect to get the men to work in the cage next week, where practice more especially adapted to base ball training...
...Princeton cage where the men will go next week is large and roomy, and the men will have a very good substitute for regular field practice there until the weather gets warm enough for out-door work...
...Orange Athletic Club is to convert its indoor tennis courts into a practice cage for the base ball players...
...Haven team is now hard at work, there being in all 206 candidates. They work in four squads and have about the same exercise as the other teams. They begin with the chest weights, practice hurdling at different heights, go through the dumb-bell drill, practice starting in the cage, and wind up with a short run. There are some very promising candidates and it seems as though the Harvard men should get a large majority of the novice events, as well as the handicaps, in the B. A. A. Meeting. Since the list of entries was published in Thursday...