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Because a Sophomore enters the competition tomorrow does not mean that he will be under any handicap when the four assistant business managers are chosen in June. No Freshmen have been elected to the business board...
When the four eight's lined up at the St. Mary's Street Bridge, Coach E. J. Brown '96 gave the B, C, and D crews a handicap over A of approximately one length...
Thirty thousand people crowded about the race track at Tia Juana, Mexico-famed drinking, gambling spot for southern Californians and visitors-to witness the rich Coffroth handicap. Among the spectators were noted fighter Jack Dempsey; his wife, movie-actress Estelle Taylor; a host of lesser celebrities, foretelling spring fashions from Paris...
...Crimson track mentor found four out of the five innovations sane and commendable. Three of these changes in the rulings had to do with the hurdle events. The point was made at the convention that a runner who knocks down most of his hurdles suffered a sufficient handicap for not clearing them cleanly, so it was voted to do away with the rule disqualifying a hurdler for upsetting the barriers. A false start in a hurdle event has hither to been penalized by setting the runner back a yard. It was decided, however, that this penalty was too sever...
...President of the American Medical Association, a potent position during a presidential campaign year. He might have had a Cabinet appointment himself. But for him, the continued chieftainship of a university is more notable than the term occupancy of a U. S. Department. So Dr. Wilbur was without handicap when two years ago he led the U. S. group to the Institute of Pacific Relations, the first successful attempt to mobilize pan-Pacific thought in international affairs. In fine, Dr. Wilbur has definitely turned from medicine; has deliberately made Aesculapius his handman...