Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that has the "sheepskin blues". It is the bigger group and contains many of the prominent and popular men of the class. It contains those who "are blue because they do not know what they want to do, and bluest when they discover that their unpreparedness is a handicap in the location...
...Lady Astor, using a steel-shafted driver, a brassie, and a wooden putter: a match with Lord Wharncliffe from whom she received eleven strokes handicap, in the Parliamentary golf handicap at Deal, England...
...been decided what events Cobb and Hallowell will enter. In the University Handicap Meet last Friday, these versatile runners raced in each other's customary events and did not seem to suffer by the change. In last week's races the former took the mile without much trouble while the latter captured the half in 1 minute, 56 seconds
...Grafpen" replies to "Fedorov" (not "Feodor" as above) from Manhattan on the letterhead of Amtorg dated "loth March 1930," naming over a list of "Comrades" whom he asks shall not be recalled to Moscow, as this "might result in a very serious handicap in our work...
Many of the scores were low-150, 125, even as low as 117 out of 200-scores that any one of the competitors would have scorned at his own club on a still day. In the preliminary handicap J. H. R. Kretschman, a Canadian, won with 195 after shooting off a tie with a Philadelphian and a gunner from New Haven. Next day, however, Kretschman was not important. Lanky Stevenson M. Crothers from Chestnut Hill, Pa., hung his coat on a nail, put on an old sweater and a white eyeshade, raised his single-barrelled, closed-bore Daley...