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Died. John B. (for Blanks) Campbell, 77, racing secretary of New York tracks and nationally famed handicapper; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Son of a Mississippi River steamboat captain, he began handicapping in 1914, worked at virtually every track in the country before settling down in 1935 to placing weights for the 1,500 races a year at New York's four tracks (Aqueduct, Belmont, Jamaica, Saratoga). Blunt, owlish Louisianian Campbell remained blandly unperturbed by owners' and trainers' protests over his weight assignments, calmly pursued the handicapper's dream, i.e., a race so perfectly handicapped...
...picking the winner. All entrants are classed according to size. Each craft gets a time allowance, figured from a complicated formula but roughly proportional to her length on the water line. Multiplied by the length of the race,-a boat's given time allowance becomes her racing handicap. Long after the race is over, officials on the committee boat are busy penciling through columns of figures to find out who really...
...arbitrary and slightly inaccurate 675 miles for last week's race, giving the Malay a handicap...
Mutiny's heaviest handicap is built right into its biggest box-office advantage: the fame of the book the movie was made from. Since a large portion of the public has studied the case of Captain Queeg right down to the last notorious strawberry, the moviemakers may have felt obligated to reproduce the main details of the case precisely as the public remembered them. As a result, the camera spends so much time swallowing evidential strawberries that it hardly has time to note that a war is going on, or that real people are involved...
Jones believes that golfers should be given strategic alternatives. He sets sand traps, trims rough and crooks fairways so that high-handicap players can fire a safe, conservative route to the green. But he always puts in a challenge for the expert, a long carry over trees or water to a good approach position, a reward for accuracy and daring. He lays out rolling, contoured greens where pins can be placed in the open or tightened up behind protecting bunkers...