Word: hirschfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That Again? SIR: PUBLISHER LEO HIRSCHFIELD OF ATHLETIC PUBLICATIONS [OCT. l] HAS ME QUASI-CONFUSED. WHEN HE SAYS "SEMI-OCCASIONALLY," DOES HE MEAN RATHER DEMI-SELDOM OR PRETTY DEMI-OFTEN...
...their big trade secret. But they collect their information in a perfectly prosaic manner: they subscribe to 59 daily and Sunday newspapers, study 97 college papers (including the Harvard Crimson and Yale Daily News). "We don't hire coaches or students to work for us as agents," says Hirschfield. But so accurate are his odds over the long run that the rumor-however unfounded-persists that he has knowing operatives on every campus...
...Hirschfield, now 60, is inevitably thought of as the adviser to a ring of clever bookmakers. This upsets him. and his unvarying reply is: "I am no outcast...
...member of the finest Jewish country club in Minneapolis. I myself do not gamble, but I am not naive enough to feel that I can impose my philosophy on others. Semioccasionally, there is a flurry of publicity concerning gambling." Publisher Hirschfield is well aware that there are both bettors and bookmakers. "This," says he. "is no fault of mine. If I were to sell you a car, do you think I'd ask if you planned to use it to rob a bank...
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...