Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handicap track meet will be held tomorrow at Soldiers Field at 2 o'clock. More than fifty men, including seven track men, have already signed to participate...
...stars of a First Lieutenant. Stars on the collar tabs denote rank in the Austrian army. Edelweiss and "caper-cailzie" plumes are an integral part of the 14th Army Corps, the Edelweisskorps, H. Q Innsbruck, Tyrol, of the old Imperial & Royal Army. . Peasant upbringing and uncertain antecedents were no handicap to promotion to First Lieutenant in the "extremely aristocratic army of Franz Josef." Requirements were high school diploma, successful completion of officers' training school, about 20 months in the front. But Dollfuss earned distinction by winning the "Verdienstkreuz," Cross of Merit, a decoration given to subalterns for outstanding deeds...
...health, a revelation which his age (44) and general appearance of pepticity made hard to believe. The McKee record is an extraordinary one, interpretable so ambiguously that even before he made his keynote address at Cooper Union last week it was both a boon and a handicap to him. Joseph McKee was born in Newark, raised in The Bronx. He worked his way through Fordham, taught there and at De Witt Clinton High School. He went to the State Assembly in 1918, became the youngest city Judge in 1924, youngest Aldermanic President in 1926. In that office he raised...
...Thursday, October 26, the annual University fall handicap meet will be held on Soldiers Field. The events, which are open to all members of the University, include: 100-yard dash, 300-yard run, 880-yard run, 120-yard high hurdles, 220-yard low hurdles, high jump, and pole vault. Early in December, the 35-pound hammer throw will be held. Entries may be made in the bluebooks, posted at the Dillon Field House any time between now and the beginning of the meet next Thursday. To the winners in the events the H.A.A. will award silver and gold medals...
...William Robertson Coe's racehorse Osculator: the $10,000 Havre de Grace handicap at 20-to-1, by a length, from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny'') Whitney's famed Equipoise; before a record crowd of 25,000 come to see Equipoise run his farewell race before being retired to stud. Equipoise's total winnings, $322,970, make him fourth biggest moneymaker in turf history...