Word: caging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Regarding the pomposities of Busch of Madison, Wis. [TIME, June 7], couldn't it be arranged to get this hungry blood-lapping, Nietzschean blond super-beast out of his cage? Perhaps after a little outdoor exercise he would lose some of his zest for splashing ink unnecessarily...
When the gift of the cage was first received, it was planned to erect it at the western end of the old tennis courts, near the stables. Lines were drawn there and the boundaries of the buildings were staked...
When it was first made public two years ago that a donation to be used for the building of a new baseball cage had been received, it was announced that work would begin at once. The delay was due in a very large measure to the difficulty experienced in selecting a site, and to the fact, than when a location had been selected the winter was too far advanced for it to be possible for work to be done...
...donor felt that he wished to give whatever sort of building the University authorities thought was most urgently needed. After some discussion and in-vestigation, it was finally decided that a new baseball cage was the most immediate and pressing need. The donor, therefore, made the offer, accepted forth-with by the authorities, of a cage to be erected at Soldiers field and named in honor of Dean Briggs...
...cage, built over 30 years ago, has proved of late to be wholly inadequate. Particularly chagrin was felt because of the size of the building, the cage being much too small to accomodate the baseball squads. The eramped quarters also restrict practice to a large extent...