Word: handicap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Deepdale Calcutta. He had used the name Vitali, said Helmar, because Roberts had said that his partner Vitali was sick and the stunt would do no harm. Roberts had offered Helmar $100 for playing along and had never paid. Both of them, said Helmar, were actually three-handicap golfers...
...Manhasset (N.Y.) investor and member of the nearby Sands Point Club. At a tournament dinner before the teams teed off, Armstrong just happened to be seated at the same table with a pair of visiting golfers named William Roberts and Richard Vitali. Roberts, who claimed a 17-stroke handicap (along with his partner's 18), seemed strangely confident. No one knew anything about him, but there was a rumor running around the club that he had burned up the course on a practice round a few days before...
...Gentlemen. Deepdale's President M. Borland Doyle, a Manhattan advertising executive, who even in his best days never shot better than 94, began to wonder about such uncommonly fine scores handed in by such high-handicap players. He checked the entry list and discovered that Winner Vitali belonged to no recognized club where his handicap could be checked. He tried to hold up payment of the winners' prize money, but was overruled by his tournament committee. No golfing gentlemen, they argued,t would participate in a fraud...
...person is almost nonexistent; even those who seem totally deaf to others usually have some slight remnant of hearing. With the help of powerful hearing aids, that remnant can be trained to distinguish speech rhythms. Sign language, Clarke insists, produces only a limited vocabulary. It calls attention to the handicap, keeps the deaf child perpetually a stranger in the world of the hearing...
Tomorrow, another strong Big Red team will face the varsity, with the same problems which plagued its predecessor. Again Coach Lefty James must overcome the handicap of a forward wall bolstered by only one letterman. And again Cornell seems to have gotten off to a slow start...