Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual handicap open to all members of the University, Harvard's harriers and runners of all descriptions go out over their four and one-half mile course Friday...
...been in earlier scratch games. The Britons' invariable emphasis on style rather than speed, the tendency to hit from the saddle instead of the stirrups, were as obvious as ever. For the Hurlingham observers, the most encouraging factors of the game were negative ones. Hurlingham was handicapped by the loss of its regular No. 1, Captain Michael P. Ansell, who chipped a bone in his wrist last month. Eric Tyrell-Martin. who showed the effects of a winter's polo at Del Monte, Calif., played above his seven-goal U. S. handicap. Far from the runaway that...
...this is true and Lane can overcome the handicap of losing the opening week of practice, Harlow will have at his disposal one of the most promising backs Harvard has produced since Barry Wood. Two years back Lane was the shining light of an otherwise blackly gloomy season...
...West Amwell Township complained. To enforce it Mr. Hutson was to have had an initial appropriation of $5,000,000, no great sum in view of the fact that the number of potential potato leggers far exceeds the number of potential liquor leggers under Prohibition. But as a further handicap the appropriation for enforcement failed of enactment with the Third Deficiency Bill. One private consolation Mr. Hutson had: the Supreme Court would probably declare Potato Control unconstitutional since the whole scheme depends on a confiscatory "tax" which makes no pretense of raising revenue...
...Major event of the Grand American Trapshoot, official name for the whole program of events at Vandalia, is the Grand American Handicap, in which anyone with a registered handicap may enter to shoot from a line measured off from the traps at a distance corresponding to his rating. The Grand American has never been won twice by the same shooter, rarely by a shooter of national reputation. Last week's was no exception...