Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...handicap meeting of the National Association of Amateur Athletes of America will take place in Madison Square Garden, New York, next Saturday. It will be the largest athletic meeting ever held, as the entries already number over seven hundred. The list includes some of the most famous athletes of England, Ireland, Canada, and the United States, and it will be strange if several records are not-lowered. Among the men who will endeavor to break records are Westing, M. A. C., champion one hundred yards runner of the world, who will attempt to lower the present record for seventy-five...
...only handicap event of the meeting, the shot contest, was in some respects the most important of the afternoon, on account of its bearing on the Mott Haven games next spring. Jane-way put the shot 38 feet, 8 inches, which entitles him to be looked upon as a candidate for honors in New York next spring, but owing to the more than liberal handicaps, Brownlee, '89, took first place with a throw of 35 feet, 2 inches, and a handicap of 5 feet, while Hill, '90, gained second prize on a put of 35 feet, 5 inches...
...sparring room, while in the second story is a small theatre. The gymnasium proper occupies the first floor and it is here on Easter Monday that the indoor meetings of the Athletic Association are held. The Athletic Association also holds two out-door meetings. The autumn meeting is a handicap, and the spring meeting, which comes on the anniversary of the founding of the school, is the occasion for a general jollification; lunch is served in the gymnasium, and a concert is given by the school choir in the evening...
COMMITTEE.HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB.- The regular match of the Shooting Club will be held at Watertown this afternoon. This is the last chance to enter this series of matches. Those who have never shot on the grounds before will receive a big handicap. Take the 1.30 car if possible. Tomorrow, the 22nd, there will be a lunch at the club for members and a match between the graduates, Law School and undergraduates. All members are urged to come if possible...
...following events will take place on the first' night, Friday, March 15: Fencing (open to Yale men only); horizontal bar (open to Yale and Second regiment); exhibition pull of the champion Yale crew; regimental tug-of-war (open to Second Regiment only); intercollegiate tug-of-war; regimental mile run, handicap, (open to Second Regiment); bayonet race open to all amateurs); regimental mile walk, handicap (open to Second Regiment); 50 yards dash (open to officers of Second Regiment only); half mile roller skating race (open to Second Regiment ). On Saturday night the following events will be contested, all of which...