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...Clark '29, back and newly-elected captain, the University trio displayed excellent teamwork to take the measure of the Danvers Club, who were allowed a nine-goal handicap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY AND 1932 POLO TEAMS TRIUMPH | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...University trio opposes the Danvers Club team, conceding them a nine-goal handicap, while the Freshman aggregation meets the horsemen from Troop C of the National Guard cavalry on an even basis. The latter game will start at 8.15 o'clock in the Commonwealth Armory, Boston, and will the played in alternate chukkers with the feature match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLARK CHOSEN CAPTAIN OF CRIMSON POLO TEAM | 12/15/1928 | See Source »

...first-class pitcher who has allowed three hits in seven innings being removed from the line-up to allow a strong hitter to toe the plate. Mr. Heydler's plan would allow the pinch-hitter and keep the pitcher in the game. Besides the elimination of this handicap to a team, Mr. Heydler points out that his plan would speed up ball games by doing away with the annoying delays of getting a pitcher ready to hit, and getting him a sweater when he reaches base...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BASEBALL TEN | 12/13/1928 | See Source »

Such figures are a splendid justification of the confidence of the founders of the fund. The break with a familiar mode of life and abrupt transplantation into one with different customs and language is a handicap not overcome without both ability and earnestness. Both of these the emigrants have shown themselves to have in no small amount, and the country of their adoption is the gainer for the addition of such a group of productive workers to her ranks. As is the case with most persecutions, Soviet Russia has secured outward some degree of conformity to its tenets only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOUNG RUSSIA (IN AMERICA) | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Monte, Calif., Glenna Collett and Marion Rollins beat Johnny Farrell and Walter Hagen playing golf. Their handicap was six strokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Briefs | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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