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...Stagg, of Yale, has invented a machine to assist in the practice of sliding bases. It is a frame work 14 feet long about 4 feet high, covered with tightly-stretched canvas, which is in turn covered with a piece of carpet. The men rush the length of the cage, and throwing themselves on the machine, shoot headlong across its surface...
Special times are given to the various uses to which the Princeton cage is put, and base-ball, foot-ball, lacrosse and track athletics are practiced every afternoon...
There is one trouble in regard to the Princeton cage. It was so damp the other day that it could not be used...
Princeton's new base-ball cage is finished, and a short description of it may be of interest. The building is 140 feet long by 50 feet wide, 16 feet high at the sides and 26 at the highest point of the trusses, on which the roof is supported, or a mean height of 21 feet. There is afforded, therefore, an inclosed space of nearly 5,400 cubic yards. One end of the cage is doubly boarded to furnish a solid smooth surface for hand-ball practice. On the inside the ceiling is formed by wire netting, which extends...
...cage will undoubtedly be of great benefit to the nine and would have been of much greater if it had been ready for use at the beginning of the term. As it was, the candidates were compelled to waste nearly a month, although Capt. Wagenhurst had his men at work in the gym as much as possible. The cage is not large enough to have first and third laid out, and so the men practise batting, base running and throwing from home to first and second principally without having a whole infield. Our great difficulty this year will...