Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ever since her swift, shallow hull lines were laid down on the drawing board of noted Naval Architect Olin Stephens four years ago, competitors have complained that she was nothing but a rule beater. She was designed, said her detractors, to take advantage of loopholes in the ocean-racing handicap rule, getting such a large time advantage over sounder, abler craft with conventional deep keels that no one could catch her. In response to this complaint, the Cruising Club of America revised its calculations, sent Finisterre off for Bermuda with a shortened time advantage...
After winning the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, Tim Tarn figured to take the Belmont in a walk. Last hope of the hunch players was a barrel-chested Irish colt named Cavan, who had come from nowhere to win the Peter Pan Handicap just the week before. And suddenly it was Cavan who was getting a call. Aboard the favorite, worried Jockey Ismael Valenzuela went to the whip. Tim Tarn wobbled badly. His fine stride suddenly looked awkward; he was in trouble. Snug on the rail, Cavan was reaching out and running away. The liver-colored Irish import breezed under...
Finishing fifth in the league standings this spring after taking the championship last season, the Yale team has been plagued by weak pitching--a handicap which must come as quite a shock to coach Ethan Allen after his recent successes with Ken MacKenzie and Ray Carlsen. Diminutive southpaw Pete Higuchi, who lasted only one inning against the Crimson last month, may get the starting call again today...
...years, only the great Tom Fool ever carried 135 lbs. and won New York's Carter Handicap. But Belmont's Handicapper Jimmy Kilroe reckoned that Wheatley Stable's dark bay Bold Ruler was just the colt to do it again. The Ruler carried the weight to the wire, 1½ lengths in front of Howell E. Jackson's Tick Tock...
Farnsworth and others are distressed because such employment policies would "severely handicap" workers with heart disease and other partial disabilities who are seeking jobs...