Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highlighted by Lonnie Stowell's two victories in the 50 and 440-free-style, the University Handicap Swimming Championships were held yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building pool. Other winners were: 100 breast, Phil Walker; 100 free, Ed Prince; 100 back, Jay Ach; 220 free, Fred Whoriskey, and 150 individual medley, Max Kraus. Tom Godfrey proved to be an iron man as he swam in the backstroke 220 and 440 in succession, taking a third and two seconds...
...annual University swim championships will be held in the Indoor Athletic Building pool at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. They will be on a handicap basis over short distances...
Anyone in the University can compete in the Championships, which will be run on a handicap basis...
...sell homeowners the virtues of paint instead of wallpaper. Their difficulty was that housewives couldn't visualize from a color card what their walls and trim would look like after paint was on. With wallpaper they could take home sample books and see for themselves. To overcome this handicap, Cleveland's big Sherwin-Williams Co. launched an ambitious $250,000 project...
...California racegoers, the Biscuit had been known as a hard-luck horse. Twice before he had just missed winning the $100,000 Handicap by a nose. Last year, almost on the eve of the Big Race, he tore a ligament in his ankle, was retired to stud-his lifetime earnings of $340,000 just $36,000 short of the world-record winnings amassed by fabulous Sun Beau, a decade before...