Clipping:An improved batting cage 2
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| Date | Wednesday, February 26, 1890 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] I suppose you have heard of Jack Lynch's players' cage of base ball practice in colleges. It is an improvement over the base ball cages of Yale and Harvard, Jack says. He has it in use at St. John's College, Fordham, and when he began training the young Catholic ball players of the Jesuit College of St. Johns he found the facilities for effective practice rather limited, and this led him to the invention of his practice cage, which is now the only one of its kind in use. It is made of cordage used in the construction of the stoutest kind of fish netting. It occupies a space in the middle of a gymnasium 65ft. in length, 12ft. Wide and 12ft. High. The top hangs loosely from the ceiling and the sides have full play, as they rest upon the floor. No matter how hard the ball comes in contact with the netting it is almost impossible for it to do any damage, and a ball very rarely drops outside of the cage. This will be the third season for the cage, and although it has been subjected to severe usage there is not the slightest evidence of a break in any part of it. After the boys have concluded their day's labor in the cage it is removed in the simplest manner. By means of runners suspended from the ceiling and attached to the netting the cage is drawn together at one end of the gymnasium, and in less than five minutes nothing but a roll of white netting is observed dangling from the ceiling. Jack Lynch is proud of his invention and claims that it can hardly be improved upon. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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