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Horseplayers are as suspicious as they are superstitious. The $2 bettor, his nose buried in a Racing Form, usually has a queasy feeling that there are things going on that he wots not of, but that the wise boys wot right well. He is peculiarly sensitive to the great American dread of being played for a sucker. But he still thinks he has a chance?if he can dope some angles...
...dyed-in-the-wool horse bettor, dog racing is evidence that man will bet on anything that moves-be it kangaroos, chimpanzees or jumping frogs. Certainly a dog track is no place to admire the look of a dog: his face is wrapped in a muzzle that looks something like an air-raid warden's mask. But dog racing is an $81 million-a-year business in Florida...
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...