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NEW CAGE BALL GAME FOR GOBS Cage ball one of the lastest additions to the long list of training camp sports conducted by the War Department Commission on Training Camp Activi ¬ ties bids fair to become one of the most popular athletic diversions among the soldiers and sailors Cage ball combines the play value of several games It has the rush and drive of football the exciting moments of basket ball ind tiic rough hustle and tussle of the class rush rushThe The game can be played by a dozen a hundred or a thousand men there is no limit to the number of pliyers Tims the weak and undeveloiitd may have the same experience pleasure and profit that is given to the skilled athlete whoiilajs on a team whose players arc limited And the aggressive fighting spirit so invaluable on the battlefield is stimulated stimulatedAccording According to Lieut Emmet Dunn Angell T7 S X K who developed the game and introduced it at the Great Lstkes Naval Training Station Great Lakes HI the rules of the game are simple and the equipment is inexpensive The ball is from twentyfour to thirty inches in diameter inflated and canvas covered The goals are two net cages twenty to forty feet in length four feet wide and eighteen inches deep made of rope and stretched between crossann and uprights thirty to fifty feet apart apartThe The teams endeavor to get the ball into the opponents cage The ball may be batted punched or thrown but must not be kicked According to Lieut Angell it is an inspiring sight to witness several hundred men surging in a body across a field each person doing his utmost to punch the ball toward the enemy goalcage
