Word: handicap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same day that Mrs. Whitney's art was honored by two republics, Husband Harry Payne Whitney, premier sportsman of the U. S., had a double racing triumph. His filly Pantella won the Great American and his Macaw captured the Brookdale Handicap at Aqueduct...
Entered for the Grand National Handicap was Whitefoot, holder of the world's record of 11 2/5 sec. for 200 yd. (owner: James Gilligan, Lawrence, Mass.) The winner was Lion, a dun streak from Dalton, Mass., owned by P. A. and J. B. Draper, which went...
...task of intelligent and adequate citizenship in a modern state. Thus the traditions which are completely of New England to so much as they are necessary to strengthen and illumine the lives and minds of those who come to Harvard must be maintained; those which could the issues, which handicap the university in her attempt to meet with the greatest facility her obligation as an American university must be forgotten...
...required only a big strong athlete with hands and wrists powerful enough to hold onto the wooden shaft, in order to get a good throw. Today a competitor weighing no less than 165 pounds has a chance for points in competition. Comparatively speaking the wooden handle was a great handicap...
...York Athletic Club, and W. S. Edwards of Knickerbocker Athletic Club, paced him for half of the distance on a specially prepared course on the old Guttenberg Race Track some 25 years ago. Long was a marvelous runner, and his record of 47 4-5 around a handicap field at Travers Island subsequently proved, to my way, of thinking, that he was the second best quarter miler on record, in as much as Meredith's 47 2-5 at Cambridge in 1916 was run under about similar conditions...