Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Handicap. In Redwood City, Calif., Theodore A. Fischer explained to the court that his $40-a-week alimony payments would have to be reduced, now that the police had closed down his bookmaking business...
...dozen four-year-olds were in patently poor condition. Ace Admiral quickly took the lead, was never in danger of being headed, and won by half a length in 2:02⅓. Said Jockey Johnny Gilbert: "This colt is going to be tough to beat in the [Santa Anita] Handicap next month...
...Anita's grandstand sat a man with a different view. Stone-faced Charles H. Strub (rhymes with rube), 64, built Santa Anita, bossed it, drew down $334,000 in salary and bonuses in 1948. Last week, he put on his usual $50,000 weekend race, the Santa Margarita Handicap (won by Lurline B, a 30-to-1 shot). This week, the first of his three $100,000 races, the Maturity Stakes, would...
...Interviewer: Has your mixed marriage been a handicap...
Burt Brown, Al Ruby, Pat McCormick, and Harvey Thayer made the one mile relay effort for the varsity in which they finished being Northeastern. The injury of Dave Hamblett was a severe handicap to the Crimson cause in this race...