Word: bettor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quoting from the opinions of an allegedly "reformed" bettor [TIME, Feb. 3], you gave credence to several wild opinions, plus one statement, that indicate that your "authority," Mr. Packer, is quite an abnormal fellow. . . . Mr. Packer is quoted: "The anxiety which follows a losing run, the empty feeling in the stomach ... in time come to be appreciated in a masochistic fashion...
...third straight week, $11,000,000 in bets went through the mutuel windows at California's Santa Anita race track. In England last year, people bet ?500,000,000 on horses and dogs. Since most bettors usually lose, why do they keep at it? In London's Spectator, a reformed English bettor named Edwin Leonard Packer made a remarkably clear dissection of the anatomy of gambling...
When in Chicago, he goes to night football games (his big lung is parked in a corner of the field and he looks on through his mirror). In Miami he is a constant spectator (and bettor) at jai alai games. His favorite sport: bridge, which he plays almost every night with his wife and friends. An expert, with a rating of three master points, he plans to compete in the national championships in Florida this winter...
...minutes and 44.6 seconds later Airborne, the rank outsider, romped home to win. As an exasperated bettor somewhere flung down his morning copy of the Times, the dampness underfoot seeped across the words of an article already part of history. "The 163rd Renewal of the Derby Stakes," it said, "is at Epsom again after an interval of seven years...
...half what he says." Not yet in prewar form, he was still confident: "There's no doubt about the final outcome of the tour. When I play him, he can't control the game at all; I'll either win or beat myself." Usually no self-bettor, Budge had his dander up this time, made a $1,000 side bet with Riggs. Said he: "I'm betting with Riggs because he's always talking about betting and I'd just like to rub his face...