Word: handicap
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Although graduation cost Hodder four of his most reliable men, Captain Austie Harding, Joe Patrick, Johnny Mechem, and Charlie Houghton, he has predicted that the defense will still be fairly strong and that the main handicap is the absence of an outstanding player...
...Last week President Matt Winn of Churchill Downs announced that the purse for next year's Kentucky Derby will be upped from $50,000 to $75,000, making it second only to the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...
...view of the heavy, pro-graduate student handicap resulting from Widener's tremendous size, there are certain temporary remedies which may be applied to more nearly balance the scales. The most desirable attribute of a service institution is accessibility--a function, in part, of service hours. And for several years, now, students have strongly desired an extension of library hours...
...opposition was just too bulky, strong, and experienced. Vern Miller frequently fell prey to mousetraps, but looked better on the offense. Of the guards, Sargeant had a distinct edge on Lowry, but even Ernie was over-ridden largely due to a size handicap...
...Californian Charles S. Howard's Sorteado, four-year-old chestnut imported from South America last year: the 38th running of the Manhattan Handicap; outstripping seven of the best handicap horses in the U. S. and setting a new North American record (2 min., 28 2/5 sec.) for a mile and a half; in his debut on the Big Apple (New York tracks); at Belmont Park. Former record: 2:28 3/5 set by Handy Mandy at Latonia in 1927 and equaled by famed War Admiral at Belmont...