Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fell over Santa Anita's quarter-of-a-mile of grandstands last week as 75,000 racing fans craned their necks for a glimpse of the start. It was a day of days for California railbirds. Not only was it the day of the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, world's richest horse race, but this was the now-or-never race for doughty old Seabiscuit, darling of U. S. racing fans, Cinderella of the turf...
Whether any plan which Wes Fesler can think of will be enough to overcome the height handicap of Yale's Charley Sellblatz, Tom Erickson, and Al Stevens, and the shooting of Johnny Cobb and Bert Ingley is a question that cannot be decided except on the actual field of battle...
Bhind from the start, the Crimson five was unable to overcome the height handicap, and they were behind 34 to 15 at the half. The six foot eight Dartmouth center, Shaw, lobbed in 15 points to take the scoring honors...
However, the Feslermen were able to overcome the handicap of playing in the immense Palestra in Philadelphia and they may still be able to pull another upset out of the fire...
...physical and intellectual tribute it demands. He remembers dirty deals, remembers, too, triumph in spite of them. He is hardworking, intent, an excellent administrator, with plenty of nerve, a fine radio voice, a record of action, a pretty wife, two sons, a home in the country and scarcely a handicap except the politically unusual one of being too young. His New York friends were hard put to it to find the right remark to make after he left the room, at last produced one: "It's almost impossible to dislike Tom Dewey until you know him well...