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...whip over boxing's hoodlums. Wrote New York Herald Tribune Sport Columnist Red Smith: "Eddie Eagan is a genuinely sweet guy. He is profoundly honest and profoundly sincere, diffident, humble and considerate. The first two qualities are indispensable in a boxing commissioner; probably the other three are a handicap." Smith also had a warning for Christenberry: "This veteran hotelman will find the fight mob noisier than convention drunks, less manageable than a weekend football crowd, and accomplished in more devious dodges than an absconding deadbeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eagan Out | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

Jaakko Mikkola will get his first chance to see just how well his cross-country team is shaping up today by means of an all-University cross country meet. Close to 50 varsity and freshman harriers are expected to run the race over the old handicap course. Starting time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 50 Runners Enter Handicap Today | 10/5/1951 | See Source »

Mikkola refused to name the outstanding freshmen, although he indicated that this may be the strongest group of distance runners at Harvard in many years. The freshmen will get a five minute handicap on the varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 50 Runners Enter Handicap Today | 10/5/1951 | See Source »

Jaakko Mikkola yesterday expressed satisfaction with the way the cross country team has been working into shape for the all-university handicap meet, which will be held a week from today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Runners Set for University Meet | 9/28/1951 | See Source »

...final 36-hole round over the Saucon Valley Country Club course, a gallery of 5,000 turned out to watch the giant killers fight it out. Playing with the handicap of three painfully abscessed teeth, cool Joe Gagliardi took a one-up lead over Billy by the end of the first nine, lost it on the next hole. Then, on the 203-yard 14th hole, Billy uncorked a shot that broke Gagliardi's heart, if not his spirit. With his opponent only 7 ft. from the pin on his drive, Maxwell wedged his ball from a trap toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Giant Killer | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

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