Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson allowed the Whips a four-goal handicap but practically wiped it out by the end of the second chukker. In the third they went on to pile up the points which proved the margin of victory. Alan Winmill scored four goals for the Crimson and Fred Ayer, two. Harvey was high scorer for Wilkes-Barre with six goals...
...Interstate Commerce Act. This clause makes it illegal to charge less for, say, a haul over the same route between Chicago and Pittsburgh (471 mi.) than between Chicago and Cleveland (340 mi.) In competition with trucks and steamships which are not thus restricted, this is a serious handicap to the railroads. Counter-lobbying goes on against such pet Labor proposals as the six-hour day, a half-mile limit on train lengths and the "full-crew" plan for adding an extra man to every train...
...their first match of the year, the Crimson was defeated by M.I.T. 790 to 809. Spencer D. Howe, Jr. '37 was high scorer with 163 points out of a possible 200. Lawrence L. Arnold '38 was runner-up to Howe with 160 out of 200. A special handicap feature between the individual members of the team just before Christmas vacation resulted in a triumph for Alfred M. Torrielli...
...leading turf people from all over the country, watched Goldeneye's victory. It was the second $5,000 Christmas Stakes purse in a row for his owner, Albert Anthony Baroni, whose Top Row, after winning it last year, went on to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap in February...
...Governor James Middleton Cox and Editor Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business. At the Miami-Biltmore course the vacationing losers plotted to hoax the winner. To Golfer Pelley they introduced Paul Runyan, onetime Professional Golfers Association champion, as "Mr. Paul, a young businessman from Muncie, Ind., with a handicap of eight." In the morning round Golfer "Paul" hooked his drives into the rough, flubbed his putts, shot occasional approaches ably enough to make a 75, win. Golfer Pelley magnanimously congratulated his opponent, promised to beat him that afternoon. The hoax was prematurely exposed at lunch when Paul Runyan...