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Analyst or parlay-card player, bettor or bookie, all these men are really matching their wits with such oddsmakers as Leo Hirschfield. To hear Hirschfield tell it he and his handicappers are simply exercising their skill at prediction. Last week, sportsman that he is, he even quoted a price on the election: Eisenhower at 3½ to 1. "Lucky I'm not a betting man," said he. "Because, frankly. I want the Democrats to win. But what are you gong to do? That's the odds...
...guests lose the more André worries. Last week, as the sun stayed out and gamblers kept gambling, André was doleful indeed. As he confided to a friend: "The man who bets the heaviest in this casino is not ex-King Farouk or Jack Warner. The heaviest bettor is poor André. He bets a billion francs ($2,857,000) a year...
...moment had Jimmy Kilroe considered fudging his figures to keep the crowd-pleasing champion in the race. He had pored over his form charts like any careful bettor, studied past performances, and decided that Nashua needed every ounce of 132 Ibs. to bring him back to the field. He doled out his weights so carefully that even with the "big horse" gone, the chalk players had a pretty problem...
...state abounding in race tracks and bettors who also vote, Maryland's Republican Senator J. Glenn Beall has long found political expedience a pleasure when rubbing shoulders with his constituents in grandstands and boxes. In recent years, reported syndicated King Features Columnist George Dixon, Bettor Beall has applied a "wisdom of the ages" in a totally unscientific system that has won two spectacular daily doubles. Five years ago Senator Beall slapped down $2 on Nos. 5 & 6, lit up himself as the tote board lit up with news that he had won $780. Asked a man in the next...
...handle his book at such big meets as Ascot, Epsom and Goodwood. While other bookies call their odds "ten to one," Bill goes all out: "I'll lay a thousand to a hundred." Says Bill with considerable pride: "The entire business is based on lightning judgment. Every punter [bettor] is entitled to outsmart his bookmaker if he can, and good luck to him. There's no limit to what you can win, I tell my customers. We British are born gamblers...