Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1910 — GAINS OF THE GAMBLERS. [ARTICLE]

GAINS OF THE GAMBLERS.

Money Often Cornea Bully Bat Seldom Remains Very Long:. The fact that “no ope wins at gambling” is noted by Mr. Nevill In “Light Come, Light Go,” as by similar historians Even the famous Jack Mytton, whose commendable practice it was to smash all the gambling apparatus and thrash the proprietor of any club where he suspected foul play, had endless disasters with his winnings. He had broken the banka of two well known London hells on one occasion and was driving home with a large sum In notes. ■ While counting these he went to sleep and found on waking that several thousand pounds’ worth of them had been blown out of the window. But then Jack Mytton had an advantage over most modern gamblers In that he was nearly always drunk when he played. I remember myself encountering a man who was just sober enough to pass the janitors at Monte Carlo, who borrowed a louis from me and put It on a number, which of course turned up, a writer In the London Saturday Review says. Having soon won something over £2,000, he consented to depart; an example which, it is needle&s to add, was followed by the £2,000 In the course of the next day or two. An old croupier at Monte Carlo with a marvelous memory for faces told me once that he himself had never seen a big winner who kept his winnings for more than two years. Casanova and d’Entragues once began a game of piquet for franc points with the further understanding that the first man to rise from the table should lose 1,000 francs. The game began at 3 o’clock one afternoon; at 9 o’olOak next morning the pflayers drank some chocolate without stopping play; at 4 o’clock that afternoon they had some soup; at 9 next morning d’Entragues was “so dazed that he could hardly shuffle the cards.” On attempting to drl&k the next bowl of soup d'Entragues fell down In a faint, upon which Casanova “gave half a dozen louis to the croupier” leisurely put the gold he had won In his pockets and strolled out to a chemist’s, where he bought a mild emetic. One famous devotee to hazard 1 left an Injunction In his will that his bones should be made into dice and his skin into covering for the boxes. Another rather grewsome story Is of an execution at the Old Bailey when two men were being hung and a young nobleman won a hundred guineas in a bet “that the shorter of the two would give the last kick.” The Count de Buckeburg’s ride from London to Edinburgh in four days with his face turned toward the horse’s tail makes a good story, a 3 does the wager of Lord Orford, an ancestor of the author’s, that a drove of geese would beat a drove of turkeys In a race from Norwich to London. The geese won by keeping on the road at a steady pace, while the turkeys flew to roost every evening.