Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...averages was in his favor: old Texas Sandman had never won a major race. The one moment in his life was the time two years ago when he finished second in a big race. Last week his trainer bravely entered him in the $50,000 added San Carlos Handicap, at California's million-dollar Santa Anita track. Among the 17 other horses in the race were Elizabeth Arden's proud Knockdown, and a swift horse named Buzfuz, recently flown in from Miami...
...races, Willie Molter deals mostly in mediocre horses. Last week, two of his clients paid $52,500 for Bric a Bac, five-year-old son of War Admiral. With a bona fide stake horse to work with, Willie is now pointing for the $100,000 handicap at Santa Anita...
Injuries should not handicap the MacDonaldmen too much. Dick Forster, starting fullback in most of the games this year, who broke his ankle in the Brown game Saturday, is the only serious loss, since Jocko Smith and Gus Seamans have both recovered from injuries suffered earlier in the season...
Margie McDuff is a thoroughly nice high-school girl, on love with most everyone around, equipped with a social conscience, a catarrhal boy-friend and a fortress of an aunt. Her major handicap schemed to be a pair of nervous drawers which succumb to the excitement at least three throughout the film and slump ignominiously to the ground, thereby embarrassing Miss McDuff only one quarter as much as all unsuspecting males in the audience. Miss McDuff's drawers become so excruciatingly annoying that at last debacle, when the sweet young thing is dancing in the arms of the handsome teacher...
...exams have cut heavily into the size of the soccer this week, and Coach MacDonald probably will not have his whole first team at practice before Friday. Preparation for Saturday's Varsity contest with Springfield and the Jayvee game with Medford High on Friday is therefore under a severe handicap...