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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-03-29, Page 7One Winner Who Knew When To Stop Among all the big-time gam. Ears who in 'a ,mal fortunes at Monte Carlo (asino,'the number Who had the st, on th of will not to try their luck any fi'rther can he counted on one hand, Chief cf thcae strong-minded eaeeptions was tough, Atnerican- born Willirin Nelson Dernhor- ough. In six months' continuous play, he w on nearly $250,000, Immedir tely afterwards,. this, one -thee professional baseball player gave up gambling for good — to win the hand of a beautiful English girl! That 81I! Darnborough was a rare exception is shown by the fate of a fellow -sportsman, the great jc,:iezy Tod- Sloan. In ten years' racing, Sloan m -de $250.,000, Most of it went on betting or stocks whichprov- ed to be worthless. During his first year on the British turf, he had the aniazing total of forty-three winners end twenty-one seconds out of only ninety-eight mounts, But in 1900 the. raeing author- ities learned that he had backed himself to win $300,000 on his mount, Codoman, in • the Cam- bridgeshire, and he was advised not to re -apply for 'a licence. (Codoman, incidentalily, came in second.) To get over this blow, Sloan went to Monte Carlo and em- baY►ked on a wild gambling ,spree. Soon he was down to his last five dollars. Undeterred, he borrowed $75 to enter a big shooting contest, which he won. Now $2,500 in pocket, he made straight for the tables and, by the end of the evening was showing a profit of nearly $15,000. But the ex -jockey made. the mistake of thinking he had struck a long run of luck. He returned to the casino next eve- ning. Two days later, he was broke. Sloan's up-and-coming gambl- ing fortunes continued to the en d. Playing baccarat at Los Angeles in August, 1933, he lost $3,500 in an hour. Four monahs later, he died at the age of fifty-nine — once again, a poor man. One of the biggest winners was Andre Ardisson, known as the "King of the Cardsharpers." Though nobody ever detected his method of cheating, he was barred from all casinos. _ But he was so skilled at dis- guising himself that he continu- ed to gamble at will. Once, dis- guised as an elderly nobleman in a wheelchair, he made $15,000 in a single night at baccarat. In another week-long session, dress- ed as an. Indian prince, he won $30,000. Ardisson's downfall came when he convinced himself that he was invincible at any form of gambling even the Stock Exchange. He invested heavily, but bad luck seemed to dog every share he touched. Soonhe was penniless. In 1922, unable to bear the stigma of poverty any longer, he com- mitted suicide, Where Bill Darn - borough differed most from the big gamblers who didn't know when to stop was in his deter- mination and long-term pian- ning. His very career as a gambler was the result of a youthful vow of revenge. It started after he'd become a professional baseball player as it youth of eighteen, earning what was then big money. His first month's salary was $150, Exhilarated by such a large sum, he decided to have a (ling at roulette.. Twenty minutes la- tter, every penny had gone. Bill Darnborough swore to have his . vengeance on the tables, To get the necessary capital, he entered the hotel business, end for the next few years built up his savings. Finally, in 1900, he sailed fair Europe to put his vengeance plan into operation. He started in a shabby little gambling" club in Rotterdam, learning everything he could about all the games of chance played. in . European casinos. When he considered he was ready, he descended on Monte SAVE A LIFE'—Police Chief Adolph Jaggi follows the Bib- lical proverb "A good name., etc„” in making Argyle, Wis., a model of traffic safety. At his own expense he provides jolting road signsat village gateways, eschews electronic traps', which, he says,' "give o town a bad nafne. Signs bring no fines, just save lives," Carlo. The ex - baseball player gambled far more heavily 'than the other glamourous figures who attracted most of Monte Carlo's fame, writes David ,Bra - ham in "Tit -Bits." The total sum of money pass- ed back and forth between him and the croupiers often reached over a million dollars a. day. At' such times, spectators would, be packed six deep behind his chair. He had a preference for num- bers ending in nine, particularly number twenty-nine. When the instinct moved him, he would relax andwait, not even touch'- ing the piles of gold coins on the green baize cloth• in front of him. Then suddenly his hands would flash out at lightning speed, straddling number twen- ty-nine in every possible way. Inseconds, with hisgold coins placed on the number in full, on the corners, and straddled with adgoining numbers, he would have staked anything sup to $5,000. Although Darnborough seem- ed to be casual about money, it was really just another exam- ple of his careful planning, • He- always .collected his win- nings in cash and returned straight to his hotel. There he gave $6,000 or so to the mana- ger, asking him in a loud voice so that any potential thief could hear — to lock the money in the hotel safe. Then, before going to bed, he went out for a breath of fresh air. In reality, though, he strolled round, to the garage and put the bulk of his money — sometimes $50,000 or more — under the mat in his car. Even his own chauffeur knew nothing about it. And so Darn - borough was never robbed. Naturally, his luck was not always so good. ' In October, 1910, however, he returned to Monte Carlo with $5,000 and settled down to the most intensive gambling session of his life. He still found time during this period to fall deeply in love' with a beautiful English girl, Frances Shaw. But her family would not hear of her marrying an American — and a gambler. Darnborough, with a wry grin, observed that his farming par- ents were descended from York- shire immigrants — and went on gambling. At last he decided to call a halt. In the preceding six months, he and the croupiers had tossed to and fro the fan- tastic surn of $250,000,000 on which he had made a profit of just under $250,000. He invested more than half his winnings in reliable stocks and used the rest to set himself up in a car business. Then he sought out Frances Shaw. "If you harry me," he said, "1 promise never to gamble again." She agreed — and Bill Darn - borough kept his promise till the day of his death, in his ninetieth year, just three years ago. Q. IIoW can I add a dainty aroma to our blankets, chenille robes, spreads, and the like? A, When laundering these articles, add some of your fa- vourite bath salts to the last rinsing water, and let them soak far about 10 minutes, They will be nice and fluffy, and smell wonderful, too. ISSUE 1.1. — 1968 Getting Away With Murder The wife's hometown Weekly newspaper arrived yesterday morning earrying news of a drunken driver who drove on the wrong side of an unloading school bus, struck and killed a six-year- old girl getting off the bus at ner farm home. The penalty meted out to this "businessman gone astray" was a $1,000 fine and a five-year sus- pended sentence. It cost him less, to kill a first grader than it did to buy the car that killed her. A rare miscarriage of justice? Not at all, It happens every day of the year in this enlightened country of ours, Last, year a local driver re- ceived an identical sentence, less the tine, for killing a mother and two children of a family in an accident on the freeway south of Eugene. Returning home from an all-night party. at Cottage Grove, the young driver entered the wrong lane of the freeway and - struck . the family station wagon, killing three of five members of the family, Questioned, the judge said that Oregon law forced him to be concerned with rehabilitation of the convicted killer rather than punishment, A few years ago we were in- volved personally in the after- math of an accident in which the mother, father and two of three children in a family were killed on a,'.vacation trip by a drunken driver roaring down the, wrong side of the highway at 80 miles an flour, Part of a two-carcaravan go- ing to the lake for a .two-week vacation, the' family driving in front hit the ditch to avoid the onrushing clrunk. The second car was a sitting duck for a head-on crash, The penalty for this quadruple murder was a $100 fine and no sentence, suspended or otherwise. And so it goes .. ad nauseam. Who's to blame for this accept- ed state of affairs? You are ... the smug,.eompla- cent citizens who cluck like an old hen over murder at their back door and neither say nor do any- thing about it. The drunk driver is' still "so -,a cially acceptable"-. . . a poor, unfortunate critter who has simply had one too many and too little sense left in his befuddled head to know better than to drive. Their hands dripping with the blood of innocent bystanders, these killers have no more right to be returned to a "normal" ex- istence by our courts than the "mad dog" killers who wander loose with a shotgun. The drunk driver is just as mentally crippled as the insane . just as potentially dangerous to the people around him as the psychopathic maniac . . with one significant difference. The drunk driver makes his own mental instability . - . delib- erately and with ill-considered forethought. He gets drunk by his own volition . his deadly condition is self-induced. The insane might be excused for a condition over which he has no control .. , the drunk driver does not have this excuse. Nine times out of ten he'll loudly pro- claim his fitness to drive even if he can't talk. Yet our courts, under existing laws and social pressures to keep them ineffective and hamstrung, mete out suspended sentences and relatively insignificant fines for bloody murder and thousands of crushing, crippling pain - wracking injuries day in and day out. Concerned about rehabilitat- ing the poor, unfortunate drunks who drivethe courts turn them loose to kill again .. , turn them loose where other potential drunken killers can take heart from their freedom ... can see how little it costs to drink and drive and kill. Why shouldn't the drunk drive? What has he got to lose if the CLASSIFIED A AGENTS SALES OPPORTUNITY SALESMAN required for outstanding line of calendars and advertising apge- clalties. 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