Word: handicaped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...programme for the three days is as follows: - First day, open handicap games; second day, football, lacrosse and lawn tennis; third day, championship games. The events arranged for the latter are as follows: - 100 yard run, one mile walk. 220 yard run, three mile walk, 440 mile run, two mile bicycle race, 880 yard run, pole vault for height, one mile run, running high jump, five mile run, running broad jump, throwing 16-pound hammer, throwing 56-pound weight for distance, putting 16-pound shot, 120 yard hurdle race, ten flights, three feet six inches high; 220 yard hurdle race...
...first members' meeting of the B. A. A. was held in their gymnasium on Tuesday night, and the all round championship was competed for. A new method of competition was instituted, first and second prizes being awarded on a basis of handicap performances, and the championship going to the man winning the greatest number of points on the basis of actual performance. The new method of computing points was used. The amateur record in each event making a standard of 100 points. There were seven competitors and the events were the running high jump, putting the sixteen pound shot...
...convention of the A. A. U. held in New York yesterday, it was voted to hold a great handicap athletic meeting open to the world in Chicago next summer...
...Cambridge A. A. will hold an open cross country handicap run on Thanks-giving...
Bicycling-Half mile, novice; one mile bicycle, handicap; two mile handicap...