Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent Bicycle Tournament in New York has brought to light a rider of great promise in the person of Mr. Walter S. Clark, whose performances are really of a most exceptional nature. His first appearance was made on January 17, in the two-mile handicap, in which he was given 350 yards' start; and he won this with such ease that in the second heat of the same race he was put back to the 75-yard mark, but again won, as easily as before. The third heat found him at scratch, and this time he succeeded in making...
...will be the third amateur to place a 100-yard record of 10 seconds to his credit before the spring season ends. Those Harvard men who happened to be present at the Columbia Boat Club sports of January 3 and 4 will doubtless remember that Mr. Voorhees, with a handicap of 2 yards, won the 75-yard dash for college men in 7 1/5 seconds...