THE ONLY SYSTEM

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 146, 23 June 1938, Page 16

THE ONLY SYSTEM

FOR BREAKING THE BANK \ The Casino at Monte Carlo received £568,000 in the last financial year and , made a profit of £140,000, facts which ; may be taken as evidence of increased ' prosperity—there being more money to ,' burn-or of the increase in the gam- ' bling spirit born of desperation, says : the "Manchester Guardian." But whe- ' ther the receipts were up or down on ' the/year, there is one fact to be rei' membered, that the bank always wins. No system yet invented has prevailed against it. Those of D'Alembert, La- . bouchere, and many others have been tried in vain, and the only result has been to enrich the official coffers, for, '. as M. Blanc, the founder of the Casino, used to say, "Black often loses, and i red often loses, but white (Blanc) al- . ways wins." "He who breaks the bank today will ' be broken by the bank tomorrow." said s Signor Garisa, who, Bfter winning t fabulous sums—£4o,ooo once within an hour—was stripped of his last franc. I "Monte Carlo" Wells won £50,000 in » two days, and lost it all and more. The r only system that has succeeded was r that of Mr. Jaggers, a Yorkshire me- . chanic, who won £120,000 after noticing that certain wheels had some t defect that favoured-certain numbers, a and who then backed those numbers heavily. But the bank was quick to e notice the defect also, and there was n no opportunity of repeating Mr. Jag- :- gers's successful "system," e There are now 27,000 pedestrian r. crossings with Belisha beacons in Brii- tain. n Coal is still hewn from workings be~ e neath the Solway Firth, more than five ' miles from the shore.