Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...McDonell to the authorities in Washington. The companies comprising the Second and Third Battalions will assemble on Soldiers Field for inspection at 7.30 o'clock this morning; the former within the Stadium, facing the river, and the latter to the west of the Stadium on the second-team baseball diamond...
...evidence in yesterday's engagement, although a few of the runs made were due to errors, the upperclassmen making four and the Freshmen six. Fielding has been the weak point of both squads throughout the spring, but it is expected that warm weather and the hardening of the diamond will remedy this fault in some degree at least...
Emerging from the cage where they have been practicing during the past month, the combined University and Freshman baseball squads had their first outdoor workout of the season on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. An improvised diamond was laid out in left field of the University diamond, as neither the latter nor the 1921 field was fit for use. It is probable that the University and Freshman nines will meet this afternoon on the regular Freshman diamond in the first outdoor game of the spring practice. The candidates are out two days earlier this year than in 1917, when they held...
...this spring and the almost simultaneous announcement that the leading tennis tournaments will be revived during the approaching season are welcome. The seriousness of our entrance into the world war was nowhere more deeply appreciated than in collegiate and amateur athletics. The leading men on the gridiron and the diamond disappeared from their wonted places to take up the grimmer game for the sake of country. Nine of the ten ranking tennis players of 1916 are enlisted in the service of the nation, and the tenth is indispensably engaged in the manufacture of munitions. But it is now appreciated that...
...agreed that only a two-game series could be played by each college. The Freshman aggregation will stage one contest with each of their two rivals. The 1921 engagement with Princeton will be an innovation, as the first-year men of the two universities have not met on the diamond for several years past...