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...Saturday the first handicap meeting of the H. A. A. took place. The handicapping was well done by Messrs. Baker, Trask and Coolidge and produced good finishes in every case. The weather was chilly and toward the end of the programme it began to drizzle uncomfortably. It is therefore to the great credit of Mr. W. H. Goodwin, Jr., that he made a quarter of a mile in 51 4-5 sec.; especially as the track was only dirt and very heavy at that. It was hard enough however to hold running spikes fairly well...
University handicap meeting today...
...freshman athletic meeting, postponed on account of the rain, will come off today at 4 P. M. The handicap meeting will take place on Saturday...
...recent editorial in the Advocate on handicap races perhaps does not touch on the main advantage of handicap races :-First, that it improves the pace, second, that it gives a chance to everybody, and third, that it makes and improves every sort of athlete. That handicap races tend to improve the pace and increase record-breaking can not be doubted. Over and over again have we seen our champion runners leaving their opponents in the rear, so much that there was no interest in the race. Now if these second rate opponents had been given starts, there would have been...
...next place, handicaps are better than limit races, for no matter how poor a runner a man may be yet he always has a chance in a handicap, while in a limit race he might really be too poor to have any chance at all. Finally handicaps are a great means of bringing out new men and improving old. New men are often encouraged by beating a scratch man, go in again and keep at it until they themselves become scratch men, while the old men have to do their best to win, and hence are often wonderfully improved...