GAMBLER WINS £64,000.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14566, 31 December 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

GAMBLER WINS £64,000.

MONTE CARLO VISITOR'S LUCK,

SIX MONTHS' WORK

Tiikki. lias just returned to London a. wrlain American gentleman, .Mr. W. Darnborough. who. (luniks to the tables of Monte Carlo, is £64,000 richer than when, he left he metropolis earlier in the year. The tirst day he played he risked £1200, ;utd won heavily. He continued, and at one time had a credit balance of £93.000. From that monv.Mit his luck turned, and he won .end lv<st from £12.000 to £16.000 a day. lie finally decided that lie had i passed the maximum of good link, ami so let well alone. In an interview he. told i.ho story of his phenomenal success. For ten consecutive years Mr. Darnborough line I been to the l'ivieia —not, however, during | the season, when a motley, cosmopolitan crowd makes p'aying hardly possible, but in tli- summer and autumn, when the hotels are well aired and jp.i'ei, and one can give proper attention to the. game. " Systems I are lie pr ducts of overheated brains and sinks.*' he »aid "Whenever you Ijave luck. follow it up. That lias been my success. 1 have spoilt six months at Monte Carlo, ami according to one of the director.-? of the bank, it is the one and only case in Monaco history where a mail lias amassed a fortune after half a year's gambling. People who have been lucky at the game invariably have won it- during a.short visit. Sir Hiram Maxim's system of doubling would lie all right if there were not a limit- of £240 at the bank. I Lad .a throng of French reporters surrounding me. taking down every move. 'The Fivnch press. therefore. have a far more exact iicumtit of my play and winnings than 1 possibly could give. At one. time I had won over £90.000, and after 1 had lost it nearlv all my hick came buck, and I thought 1 would leave, the roulette alone for a, while. As" soon as my success was known in Monte Carlo L received hundreds of begging letters and requests to lineal my system. which 1 did not possess. Other people again asked me to linance their systems. [ con id not help giving thousands of francs away to those poor beggars. 1 have invested my winning in gilt-edged securities —Russians, Mexicans, and Canadians."'