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Over a new course of three miles and seven tenths, the University cross country handicap was led throughout its length yesterday by Bill Daniels of the Medical School. The fastest time of the afternoon was turned in by Roswell Brayton, captain of the Cross Country team in 19 minutes and one second; he nevertheless placed sixth, because of his handicap...
Following the season opener October 7 in the University Handicap meet, the team will enter a meet with Boston University, a triangular affair with New Hampshire and Dartmouth, followed by the Holly Cross run, and the annual Big Three meet with the Elis and the Tigers. The season concludes with the 1C4A games at New York, November...
...half century of U. S. polo, only 15 players have ever attained handicap ratings of ten goals, the game's highest rank. One of the first ten-goalers was Thomas Hitchcock Sr. (1894, 1900, 1901), who captained the first U. S. team that challenged England for the Westchester Cup. Tommy Jr. has been ranked at ten goals for 16 years-greatest feat in polo history...
...came to the "Grand" in a $20,000 private railroad car. Others came in trailers, camped behind the clubhouse. A doctor commuted from Cincinnati by plane. The week's 15 events offered $50,000 in prizes. In the Grand American Handicap, big prize event of the meet, there were no favorites, for a 14-year-old tyro, shooting from the 16-yd. line, had as good a chance to win as a top-flight marksman shooting from the 25-yd. line. Solidest tradition of the 39-year-old trapshooting classic is that an "unknown from nowhere" usually wins...
...Grand American Handicap, where men and women shoot together, neither topnotcher won. Winner, as usual. was an obscure gunner: 45-year-old Ortello West, county highway superintendent who had been shooting at and around clay targets for 17 years but never before had won "anything worth having." The $1,000 he won last week will go a long way in his home town of Coshocton, Ohio...