Word: slots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Modesto, Calif., Smith had to close up shop in the '30s when he "backed the wrong man for district attorney." Ray sent his son Harold to Reno, and soon the young man started Harold's Club with the old family roulette wheel and two battered nickel slot machines. Then Smith and his other son joined Harold...
...lure in people, the Smiths spot slot machines ( 3? to $1) strategically, fix them so that they pay out 97% of what is put into them. By thus keeping the house take low on their 800 slots, they build up customers' confidence for bigger bets-at eleven crap tables (where the house has a mathematical edge of 1.4%), 29 blackjack tables (2½%), nine roulette wheels (5.2%) and the horses. Winners are always paid off in silver dollars (except for big games). The Smiths have found that a pocketful of silver dollars is a temptation to keep on gambling...
...number one tennis slot Hamish Gravem beat Al Schilling in three sets, 6-2, 5-7, and 6-3. St. Mark's got their only victory when Peter Moore defeated second-ranked Brooks Harris...
Freshman Pete Green, usually number seven man for the Tar Heels, pulled the upset of the day by trouncing the Crimson's top man, Johnny Rauh, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4. Green took over the number one slot when North Carolina's Del Sylvia failed to arrive in time for singles play...
First man will be, as usual Ted Cooney, medalist last Wednesday at Amherst. Following Cooney will be Bruce Thurmond, Jack Brophy, Dave Hedberg. Pete Malkin, and Jim Jones. The number seven slot was uncertain last night, but it is probable that Doug Boyd will start...