Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Simon as well as Will Garrison, John North and John Phelps scored for Harvard. The team now has a 6-4 record with the Greater Boston Rifle League Championships on April 18 and 19. Simon commented that "Harvard will have a very good chance, since this will be a handicap competition." The freshman team also fell before a strong shooting Northeastern team...
...even if the process is sometimes painful. He is the product of his upbringing. Like other members of the imperial family, he has lived a cocoonlike existence, with little knowledge of people and events in the outside world. He has too many servants but he lives simply. His great handicap is that all his life things have been spoon-fed to him, including education. He is an excellent horseman, a good swimmer, and very good at table tennis. He smokes moderately and drinks little. I think he has a good capacity for alcohol, but as he is the crown prince...
...Bertram-Barnard sleepers were late indeed--so late that they played the first quarter with only five--not the normal six--members. Despite their handicap, they held the score to a 2-2 tie until the middle of the second quarter. By that time the Cabot attack, led by confident Cricket Fisher, had finally gotten off the floor to pick up 14 of its 18 points in the next two periods...
...Heavy favorites failed to make the grade in two of the winter's richest horse races. In the $145,000 Santa Anita Handicap, C. W. Smith's Hillsdale (at 4 to 5 odds) was overtaken by Terrang in the last hundred yards, lost by half a length. In the $135,800 Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah, Christopher T. Chenery's flashy three-year-old, First Landing (17 to 20), was never a serious factor, finished third behind Bayard Sharp's Troilus...
...turfdom's grand old veterans, Calumet Farm's seven-year-old Bardstown, responded to the urging of Jockey Steve Brooks, survived a foul claim to win the $137,600 Widener Handicap at Florida's Hialeah Park for the second time (the first...