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...position. This divides the cage into two parts, and affords a narrow alley for battery work or throwing, while regular fielding and batting is practiced in the larger enclosure. Three batteries can thus be kept at work at the same time with safety. There is a narrow sawdust track around the inside of the cage on a level with the regular surface, and included as a part of the available space for base-ball practice. There is a space for fielding practice, throwing to bases first and second, from the catcher's position, batting, to a limited extent base running...
...call them "universities." It is a new example of the old fable of the frog and the ox. The frog envied the size of the ox, and though that by puffing himself full of air he might become his equal. And so we see balloon-like universities springing up around us on all sides with no foundation but a little money and a big name...
...eight candidates seem to be rowing pretty well considering the constant changes which have been made in their make-up. The men complain considerably about the new rowing room. The machines, they say, are utterly bad. It is also disadvantageous for the two bow men to row around the corner, owing to the shortness of the room. Considering these hindrances, the time of the crew is fairly good. As a whole, the men are inclined to row short and are slow about getting their arms away...
Just at present the Association game as played on the other side is under-going a boom in and around Boston. Not long ago two star players, Priest and Westwood, arrived here from England, and were much disappointed at finding that foot-ball as they know it was almost unknown here. They were professional players in England, and on settling here they conceived the scheme of instructing twenty-two athletes in the fine points of the game and forming two elevens to play matches. No sooner had they started in to develop the game than they found that there...
...never pick the ball up with your hands, but you must carry it along just the same. If the ground is good, you can keep the ball on the ground and still take it down the field and still take it down the field by dribbling it along, dodging around the players on the other side as they get in front of you. If the ground is bad and you can't dribble the ball, you have to use the head for passing. Many a time I have been down the whole length of the field with two others, carrying...