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...that 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...
...wire, were well repaid for their trouble by one of the grandest sights that has been seen around Cambridge for a long time. For over an hour four large ice houses were a mass of flames. There was no ice in the buildings, but there was a quantity of sawdust which added to the brilliancy of the conflagration...
...ready to wake any morning and find Holmes a beautiful sparkling lake, and the yard a system of ponds and rivers, with a good degree of certainty that still another day will change the former into a magnificent skating surface, and the latter into a conglomeration of slipperyness and sawdust...
...Sawdust should be put upon the steps of Memorial when they are covered with ice indestructible by pick or shovel...
...From "Bran and Sawdust, a Tale of Today," published in the Yale Record. N. B. The conclusion of this highly romantic tale, especially contributed to the columns of the Record by S. C., Jr., of the New York Ledger, can be found in succeeding numbers of the Record. For sale at all news stands...