Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party last year to a merger with Brown Bros. & Co., forming Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Another Harriman venture is Harriman & Co., a small firm doing a lucrative business in commercial paper. Virile Son Harriman enjoys sport as well as work, is an expert polo player with a 4-goal handicap. In business his luck has been to tackle situations at bad moments. He has always had a sentimental attachment for Union Pacific, from which by hard work, spectacular plunging and foresight his father hammered fame & fortune. He was a U. P. director while at Yale, sometimes appearing at meetings with...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's four-year-old racehorse Equipoise, who was retired early last season with a blind quarter crack: the Delavan Handicap at Arlington Park, defeating Jamestown, who had beaten him twice in 1930, by three lengths. Carrying top-weight of 128 lb., Equipoise covered the mile in 1 :34 2/5, or 3/5 sec. better than the world record for an oval track set by Jack High under 110 lb. at Belmont Park...
...before he left St. Paul's school, then decided not to go to college. Said he : "There is no use sitting in school when one can sit on a horse and go somewhere." When Jockey Bostwick began to take polo seriously two years ago, he quickly had his handicap raised to six goals, barely missed being No. 1 on the U. S. team that beat England in 1930. An expert golfer, he won the Byers Cup at Aiken a year ago. Short (5 ft. 2 in.), light (118 lb.), he has an ideal build for a jockey: slim legs...
...annual outing of the National Democratic Club at Englewood, N. J. John Kenlon, 70, oldtime fire chief of New York City, won first prize in handicap golf with a net score of 88 (handicap...
Yale will probably have to concede a considerable handicap to the Crimson four in tomorrow's game. In the previous match the Blue team won 13-3, although a win by a larger margin had been forecast. Tomorrow's clash at Rye should find Harvard still on the upgrade of their comeback, but their chances of defeating the best Eli aggregation in history are very slim...