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Show ! Mathematician Declares That Gamblers Can't Win WASHINGTON. D. C.-Your wife cashes In on a horse because she likes the color of the jockey's Jacket. Jack-et. You collect nonnegotiable tickets tick-ets because you follow breeding lines. Ever wonder why? A man who has been studying gambling for 15 years says he's found out It's because "you Just can't win." Feeding slugs Into his own slot machine, Dr. Ernest E. Blanche said: "It's mine and it's honest, but It pays me only 70 per cent." Dr. Blanche, a 36 year old mathematician, mathe-matician, once wanted to be a physician. phy-sician. Instead, he has been diagnosing diag-nosing the probabilities of gambling gamb-ling success. Hs alms his preaching against gambling from the practical rather than the moral viewpoint "People don't want to be told they can't win." he says. "My theory the-ory is that they'll always lose If they stay at it. The ones who can't be convinced are the ones I'm trying try-ing to reach." Some of his conclusions: You've got one chance in 17 of making four straight passes with the dice, shooting tor 7, 11 or your point If It's eight straight winning throws, the chances are one in 287. It it is 10, you have one chance In 1,181 unless the dice are crooked. From the mathematical standpoint stand-point be iayi he has tried all the angles from roulette to hunting the red centered piece of candy that would entitle him to a free peppermint pepper-mint stick. Ilia own horn is a cache of gambling gam-bling equipment all experimental and soma of it phoney. Ht says he has been kicked out of some places merely for taking notes. |