Word: matheson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left guard, however, that O'Rourke admits is the weakest spot in his line. Starting at this position will be Ron Matheson, a junior who has excellent speed but at 180 pounds lacks the weight necessary to oppose the Crimson's right guard, Captain Tim Anderson...
...classroom Matheson usually throws in a supply of good, sound horse sense: never bet on anything unless the odds are at least 5 to 2; stay away from the Daily Double ("the Daily Double is loaded with pigs"); wait until the second half of the afternoon's card, when the races include tested and proven animals; keep away from two-year-olds ("no one knows what they can do"). The battle may not always be to the strong, or the race to the swift-but that's the way to bet. "Be satisfied if you find as many...
...Need Love. One essential that Matheson confesses he cannot transmit to a pupil: the love of racing. A man has to be interested in animals as well as mathematics before he can decide what a given horse can do. Matheson himself got the bug early. At twelve he rode his grandfather's horses on scrubby "bull rings" (half-mile tracks) in Idaho and Utah. After the University of Utah and stints as a miner, a newsman and a Hollywood writer, Matheson tried a comeback as a professional rider in World...
...Matheson was the most successful handicapper in the country: a two-dollar ticket on each of his "best bets" (his top choice at every track on every day of racing) would have earned a grand total of $44.10 by year's end. The sum looked hardly impressive, but it was better than any other handicapper's record. It convinced Matheson that if a man in vested in only the best of the Matheson "best bets," he might earn a living...
Today, Hugh Matheson is a happy man. Between his race bets and his classes, which he handles with the silky self-assurance of a side-show barker, he makes a nice living doing what he likes most to do. He is not even bothered by the inevitable wise guy who asks him why he needs to teach if he can really run up big profits at the track. "This is just an excuse to get horse players together so I can sell the idea of a U.S. Sweepstakes," says the professor glibly. "A sweepstakes is just what this country needs...