AMATEUR ATHLETICS.
THE AMERICANS DISLIKE THE HANDICAP SYSTEM. fly Telojrapli—"Prf ss AfltKH'-ifltiori—Oopyrtebt Molbournß, February 10. Tho American athletes object to the .handicap system. They complain tbat in order to win niost of tho races in whlcTi they na-vo competed it would; bavs been neeMsary' for them ■ to . break world's reeords, and that'it will be difficult to convince Ameriea,' wbere .all races,. o.i> scratch events, that they are not a badly beaten tea®i... ; Parker's opinion is tba't-tho handicap svit«ni" tends' : to keep • second-raters in the flrs't division. 5 1 ''
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1981, 11 February 1914, Page 10
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88AMATEUR ATHLETICS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1981, 11 February 1914, Page 10
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