Word: handicap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sons of great men begin life under a handicap. They know that they are expected to do badly so that the older generation can use the phrase, "He's not the man his father was." Who would expect, say, the son of Steve Donoghue, England's greatest jockey to be able to ride? Or, if he could ride, who would expect him to win a horserace? And even if he won a horserace, who would expect him to win it on a 100 to 1 shot while his father, badly beaten, came tottering in unplaced...
...stimulant for her nerves. I am convinced that the French stars could not have reached their heights had they dissipated nor be more at home at a cafe table. If so, our examples of fine American manhood are not so clever, for the French beat them with a great handicap. Don't be a poor loser−give credit where credit is due (and between you and me what do you honestly think of our "clean" living Americans? Youth is the same the world over...
...University polo team was eliminated from the Class A National Handicap Tournament in New York City on Saturday night. Its conqueror was the New York Athletic Club which proved its superiority by a decisive 15 to 2 1-2 score. The game was played in the 105th Field Artillery Armory in New York and was as one-sided as the score indicates...
...University riders entered the contest with a 16-goal handicap, but their opponents had a one goal advantage. The class was open only to teams with a 13-goal handicap or more...
...Stranahan '26 and Alexander Shaw '28, numbers one and two respectively will accompany the University leader. The tournament is open to teams with handicaps of 13 or more goals. The Yale three, with a 22 goal handicap, Pennsylvania Military College with 16, and Harvard with 16, will be the only college entries. It was announced definitely last night that the Crimson riders will enter the Intercollegiate Tournament in New York at the end of this month...