Foreman's Next Job Will Not be Building Baseball Cages--Wants a Hard Job--"Nothing to This," He Declares Scornfully

"The next job I take won't be building baseball cages; I can tell you that," said Harry Clark, foreman in charge of the construction work on Soldiers Field, "I'm looking for a harder job; there's nothing to this."

The massive moulder of mortar and manipulator of men reclined uncomfortably upon a pile of boards and twitched slightly from unavoidable rheumatism. "Besides, it's too damp in here: I'm gettin" so I can't walk I'm so tied up."

But the inquiring Crimson reporter was not on hand for an account of Mr. Clark's personal troubles. It was the building, now nearing completion which had lured him forth.

"I don't know when we'll be through here. As soon as we get a new job to work on we'll hurry to finish this." Questioned as to the merits of the structure, he divulged that this was his beat effort. "It's 10 feet longer than the cage I built up in Andover and it's got the biggest skylight of any cage I know of. The track's two feet narrower than the one up there, but it's 10 laps to a mile and that ought to be plenty for anybody.

"We expect to have the clay and cinders down pretty soon, to pave it; although I understand the students around here are going to have it paved with gold. I guess they could all right!" This last sally pleased the foreman immensely and he turned the pulpit over to Dennis Enright, veteran grounds keeper, who stood by ready to reinforce the dialogue.

"This will make the second cage I've seen put up in my day here. Back in 1897, they put up the one we've been using down here, when they gave up playing on Jarvis and Holmes Fields." Dennis reminisced. "Those were fine fields, up where the Law School is now; and they used to have some fine ball games on Holmes. When we couldn't get in we used to climb up in the willow trees and see the game fine."