Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven years ago horse racing was a summer sport. But since the opening of California's Santa Anita Park and its $100,000 Handicap, winter racing has attracted all the top-notch U. S. stables, most of their top-notch thoroughbreds. Santa Anita's opening, on the Saturday after Christmas, has become as red-letter a date on the U. S. racing calendar as the opening of Belmont, Pimlico or Saratoga. Santa Anita, despite its rich purses, has not had the winter field to itself. Florida's Hialeah Park, with its $50,000 Widener Cup race, gets...
Madden's pet hate is Manhattan's cafe-society crowd. "The whole racket," he once wrote, "is nothing but a Show-Off Handicap. It's a good thing it aint a weight for age race or some of them fillies could never lift a foot. Everything, clothes and talk, is loud and cheap and I'm convinced that most of them, if they could get two more people to turn around and look at them, or could get their kisser in another toothpaste ad, a mention by a columnist or their picture in a tab, they...
...time this year that the schoolboys have played outside hockey, they will, if past performances indicate anything, present the Freshmen with a seasoned team. Last year at Concord the S. P. S. boys knocked the 1943 team out of the undefeated ranks, and while the unfamiliar indoor ice may handicap them somewhat, the outcome is far from certain...
...leadership; 2) he could acquire closer familiarity with national affairs, bring efficiency and planning to the national headquarters; 3) party leadership developed in conferences could be effective inside as well as outside Congress, could prevent contradictions like those that made the Republican record on defense and foreign policy a handicap in the 1940 campaign. As a salaried executive ("It ought to pay a man as much as does the Presidency"), Mr. Willkie could make speeches, stimulate party organization and "become the most constructive minority voice the country has ever known...
...great and consistent kicking despite the handicap of rain, and for his substantial ground gaining, Bob Peters won the honor of being the only Princeton representative. Gaining a total of ten votes, he nosed out such close contenders as Hank Mazur, who scored Army's lone touchdown against Harvard, and Erni Savignano, Brown's spark-plug...