Word: handicapping
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...shrewdest duffer in Buckinghamshire sized up the competition and decided: don't get licked-join him. So Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 50, who plays golf with a handicap of 18, arranged for Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, 42, to be on his side against two of 'Arold's customary golfing partners, a pair of businessmen. That was a neat stroke, since Lee, in England on an eight-day visit, handles the clubs better than almost any Prime Minister in the world. But after a half-hour's play...
...lucky enough to start with a name very well known in England. In your country, it is somewhat of a handicap to have a great father; few of your great men have had great sons...
...time was really only a warmup: later, in his three-week exhibition tour of the U.S., he will play 15 games simultaneously in Boston. It hardly mattered that he eventually lost two games while winning five and drawing two; he had conceded each of his honorable opponents a generous handicap, without which it would have been a rout...
McGuinn, a two handicap junior, played number one for several matches last year. Seniors Wayne Thornbrough and John Hawkins round out the returning lettermen...
...horse was George Royal; he had won only one race this year. The name of the "boy" on his back was Johnny Longden, and that was enough to lower the odds on him to 6-1 as he left the gate in last week's San Juan Capistrano Handicap at Santa Anita...