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From 1923 to 1925 Bettor Shouse lost $22,458 by picking slow horses at Maryland and Kentucky race tracks. Race horses he owned in partnership cost him another $6,273. In 1924 he dropped $1,750 by wagering that John William Davis, Democratic nominee for President, would carry Maryland...
...Thimblerig = the Shell Game, with three thimble-like cups, a pea, a sleight-of-hand, a gullible bettor...
...South remaining solid, Mark Sullivan was then left with ten controversial states wherein the Republican claims seemed to him as valid as the Democratic. He did not attempt to figure them out, but fell back on the bettor's law of averages to arrive at the tentative conclusion that Mr. Coolidge would be able to total the requisite 266 by rallying 24 more votes out of the 70 thus remaining "in the pot." The states...