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Finishing fifth in the league standings this spring after taking the championship last season, the Yale team has been plagued by weak pitching--a handicap which must come as quite a shock to coach Ethan Allen after his recent successes with Ken MacKenzie and Ray Carlsen. Diminutive southpaw Pete Higuchi, who lasted only one inning against the Crimson last month, may get the starting call again today...
...years, only the great Tom Fool ever carried 135 lbs. and won New York's Carter Handicap. But Belmont's Handicapper Jimmy Kilroe reckoned that Wheatley Stable's dark bay Bold Ruler was just the colt to do it again. The Ruler carried the weight to the wire, 1½ lengths in front of Howell E. Jackson's Tick Tock...
Farnsworth and others are distressed because such employment policies would "severely handicap" workers with heart disease and other partial disabilities who are seeking jobs...
...Crimson shell, in the outside lane was given a lead of a few seats. The varsity race had to be restarted when on the first attempt the Eli number seven man caught a crab within the first 30 seconds. On the start that followed, Princeton made up its handicap even though the Crimson pulled out at the fantastically high stroke of 48 for the first 15 strokes...
...Wade and romped to an easy win in 4:20.1. In the two-mile, it was Eli John Morrison who shadowed Reider for most of the race only to fall to Reider's finishing kick, which thrilled the large partisan crowd. Morrison was operating under an unusual handicap, however: he had to run the last mile and a quarter minus one shoe...