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Word: handicaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last event was a two-mile handicap, for which there were the following entries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SECOND MEETING OF THE HARVARD BICYCLE CLUB. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...Bicycle race (handicap mile-heats, best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

Bicycle race (handicap 220-yards' dash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...Handicaps. According to a verbal agreement with the President of the H. A. A., a set of prizes for handicap races will be offered on Friday afternoon, April 29. These races will, we believe, consist of a mile walk, mile run, 100-yards, 120-yards hurdles, and quarter-mile. Particulars and date of entries' closing will be given later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...made from four to six seconds faster in the mile, and that this work will effect it. We omitted to say that the track will be carefully cindered to a depth of an inch, which will greatly add to its speed. An effort will be made to hold handicap games for "pewters" on several Saturdays in the spring, and to bolster up the interest in athletics generally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 4/1/1879 | See Source »

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