Mac McCorby

Mac McCorby is a fast-talking young man who organizes illegal sports gambling. He approaches Butch with promises of quick money and teaches him to bet on football games instead of earning money slowly. Early wins make Mac's scheme look easy, but he also lends money that must be repaid regardless of the result. When Butch risks everything on an Odyssey game and loses, Mac takes the expensive street-hockey equipment as payment. Mac profits from impatience, envy, and the excitement of apparently effortless success. His influence tempts young people to treat chance as a shortcut around honest work, while his collection of the debt reveals the hard cost hidden behind his friendly sales pitch.