Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...souvenir amateur athletic meeting at Madison Square Garden, New York, March 2. The prizes will be diamond rings to first, diamond scarf pins to second, and handsome gold medals for third. There will be a gold watch souvenir for every starter. The programme is as follows: 75 yards run, handicap; 250 yards run, handicap; 440 yards run, handicap; 2 mile run, handicap; 1 mile walk, handicap; tug-of-war, scratch, 650 pounds limit; 3-4 mile novice walk, scratch; 1-4 mile novice run, scratch; 1 1-2 mile bicycle race, handicap. Entries will be received from all amateurs...
...high jump will be a cup, the base of which will be made of cut glass and the bowl, artistically arranged to fit in it. The prize for putting the shot will be an etched oxidized ornament which will stand about nine inches high. Both contests will be handicap and open to all members of the university, with a liberal handicap...
...Roxbury Latin School Athletic Association hold their winter sports on February 22, in the M. I. T. Gymnasium, and this year the management have decided to give prizes in three open handicap events. This is quite an innovation but they mean to make it a successful one if possible. The sports come on a holiday so that a large crowd is hoped for. The contests in the closed events, especially in sparring, have in previous years, always been interesting, though not very scientific, and this year with the added attraction of the open events, for which several Harvard men have...
...placed in the window of Leavitt and Peirce's. The prize for the first man in the Harvard-Technology road race in December is a silver goblet. It was won by W. B. Greenleaf, '92. A similar goblet is given to T. Barron, '91, the winner in the fall handicap road-race in November. The second and third prizes in the road-race are silver cups, won by W. B. Greenleaf, '92, and R. W. Holmes. There are in addition to these, three silver cups for the winners in the hare and hounds run held in October. The cups were...
...putting the shot and throwing the hammer, similar to those held here last year, but which will be given up this winter owing to the lack of interest. The first meeting will be held January 29, and at least one every week thereafter. The meetings will all be handicap. The new men will at first receive the full allowance, and after that be handicapped at their respective records. The prizes will be awarded at each meeting and held until the final, and the man having the best record for points for the year will retain the prize...