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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
clor Says He Prefers a DeckTo Dromedary
Br H. AUGUST DEBELIUS
Madrid - H'PIl - Handsome,
iwarthy Omar Sharif, the
man who has been billed as
filmdom's successor to Rudolf
Valentino and Ramon Navar
ro, admits he prefers bridge
to camel-riding.
"In fact," he said, "I never
laid eyes on a camel until I
had to ride one in 'Lawrence
of Arabia,' and I hope I nev
er see one again."
Sharif, better known as an
actor than a card player, took
part in several international
bridge competitions for his
native Egypt. ,
He now Is starring in the
Samuel Bronston film spec
tacular "The Fall Of The Ro
man Empire" as the King of
Armenia.
Wearing a purple shirt and
dark purple tie instead of a
bedshect, the actor sipped
Spanish cognac in his elegant
Madrid apartment and said:
"I'm resisting the Valentino
image. It's too much of a
strain."
The slightly accented Eng
lish of the Cairo - born son
of a lumber merchant was
exotic, but his phrases were
positive and exact. "I want
to get off this Valentino kick,"
he said.
His long, wavy black hair
curled over the collar of his
light gray sports jacket. The
six-footer leaned forward and
his large hands gesticulated.
Sheiks Art Out
"Let's face it," he said,
"sheiks are out."
He lit a cigarette and wav
ed the smoke away from in
front of his deep-set brown
eyes.
"Women now prefer un
combed hair and the Twist,"
he said. "The tastes of wom
en have changed. I'm not wor
ried, and the reason is I have
not got plastered down hair.
But I'm keeping away from
the desert pix. I don't want
to spend the rest of my ca
reer on a camel.
"I like to be a demigod like
Valentino, but it would be
big strain. I made a point of
seeing 'Son of the Shiek so
I'd know what to stay away
from."
He also claimed that any
similarity between him and
Valentino or Navarro as far
as romance goes also was mis
taken. .
"In my first English-language
picture," he said, "I
didn't have one girl. That was
in 'Lawrence.' In ""The Fall
of the Roman Empire,' I'm
supposed to be married to
Sofia Loren, which Isn't so
bad but she's supposed to
be in love with somebody else.
And in my next picture, 'The
25th Hour," I'm a Roman
Catholic priest, I never get
a girl."
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By HARRY FERGUSON
Washington - (I'PIi - One day
a frustrated citizen, tempo
rarily in a state of involun
tary bankruptcy, pasted this
sign on a Las Vegas slot ma
chine: "In case of air raid
stand beside this machine. No
body has hit it yet."
The man was over-stating
the case, of course, because
somebody hits slot machines
just often enough to keep the
customers coming back. Gam
bling is not only legal in Ne
vada, it is on the level. The
odds against a roulette playci
are about five per cent, but
he knows that when he goes
into the game. When a ganv
bling house covers all bets in
a dice game, the odds against
the players are at least 1.4 per
cent. Just stay there long
enough and you will lose your
shirt.
The only thing a legal gam
bling house has to worry
about is to keep enough cash
on hand to tide itself over
when a high-rolling player
gets hot. Sooner or later the
odds will begin to work and
the man who hasn't sense
enough to quit when he is
well ahead goes broke. The
legend about the man who
broke the bank at Monte Car
lo is a pretty story, but it's
fiction.
Horse bettors are a melan
choly breed of men, anywpy.
but they complain loudly
about the injustice of pari
mutucl betting. What it means
is that it is legal in many
states to bet on a horse pro
vided you are on the premises
of the track. If you walk a
block away from the track
betting Is illegal.
Now the horse players have
another com plaint. Several
years ago the Internal Reve
nue Service issued orders that
any person winning more than
$000 on a $2 bet would have
to identify himself to collect
his money. This happens most
ly in the daily double. You
pick horses in the first and
second races for the price of
single ticket, and if your
selections win the odds usual
ly are good.
On Oct. 3, 1960, the rule
struck Belmont Park In New
York with some strange re
sults. The daily double paid
$6P3 for every $2 ticket pu'
chased and the winners were
invited to collect their money
by Identifying themselves by
Social Security cards or
driver's license. The track an
nounced that the identity f
the winners would have to oe
reported to the Internal Reve
nue Service.
At twilight, when all the
horse players had gone home,
the track still had $46,477 un
claimed by winners of the
daily double. For reasons of
their own, the persons holding
the tickets preferred to pass
up the money rather than
identify themselves, and the
state treasury profited accord
mgly.
on sports events in the United
States and from time to tine
attempts are made to fix the
games. The most notorious at
tempt was successful - gam
blers got to enough members
of the 1919 Chicago Wh.U
Sox to allow the Cincinnati
Reds to win the World Series.
The White Sox may have been
the greatest baseball team
i ever assembled and the public
made them such heavy betting
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Tremendous sums are bet fdvorites that the gamblers
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College basketball scandals
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to lose the game but merely
to "shave the points." Team
A is a six-point favorite over
Team B. A gambler takes
Team B plus six points and
then bribes a couple of ath
letes on Team A to insure
that they don't win by more
than five.
The recent suspension of
Paul Hornung of the Green
Bay Packers and Alex Karras
of the Detroit Lions of the
National Football league has
raised the problem on wheth
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to bet on himself or on hi
own team. This Issue is hotly
debated on the first tee ut
many country clubs as soon
as the members of the four
some get through -putting ur
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