Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second meeting of the Massachusetts Chess Association will be held on Decoration Day, May 30th at 10 a.m., at the rooms of the Boston Chess Club, which have been kindly offered for the occasion. There will be a handicap-tournament, with the players divided into four classes according to their strength; with five prizes, awarded to the five players having the highest scores. Play in this tournament will begin promptly at 11 a.m., after which time no entries will be allowed. Those interested in chess throughout the state are invited to join this association, and, if desirous of entering this...
...annual inter-class handicap match of the Shooting Club came off Wednesday afternoon. The senior team allowed '88 and '89 fifteen points each, and '90 twenty points. This handicap was two liberal, and proved too great an obstacle, for the '87 team to overcome. The conditions of the match were 4-men teams, each man to shoot at 25 clay birds, 5 angles, 18 yards rise. The freshmen won handily with a lead of 7 birds. They shot extremely well, and bid fair to prove worthy successors to the graduating '87 team. Appended is the score...
...just begun, and although begun so auspiciously for Harvard, it is fitting that we should consider now a restriction to which our nine has been lately subjected. Professional teams cannot be our adversaries on the diamond. The arguments used by our faculty in subjecting our nine to this handicap are well known, and seem sufficient to them; but if they should consider that old proverb, "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well," and should ponder over the fact that professionals not only play better ball, but play ball in a more gentlemanly way than most amateur clubs...
...amateur base-ball arena, as best represented by the college nines, has really done nothing to make the game interesting this season, and as a result small figure and pitching contests may be expected. Their rules encourage wild pitching as much as ever and handicap the batsman, and were adopted, apparently, without a thorough study or acquaintance with the principles of the game or the innovations made by the professional organizations. It is a fact that at the meeting held in this city to form a new college league, there was scarcely a representative who had any positive information about...
RUNNING HIGH JUMP (HANDICAP).The following were the entries in this event: H. Swain, '88 (9 inches); H. L. Clark, 87 (scratch); E. H. Rogers, '87 (5 inches); A. T. Dudley, '87; A. T. Perkins, '87; F. M. Brooks, '89. Perkins and Swain did not compete. Dudley fell out first, unable to jump 4 feet 6 inches. Brooks was the next to fail, when the bar was at 4 feet 10 3-4 inches. The contest between Rogers and Clark was quite interesting. Rogers did not run much, but took the leap almost on a walk. He jumped 5 feet...