TRUE TO WORD

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 498, 21 July 1932, Page 5

TRUE TO WORD

MILLIONAIRE GAMBLER LONDON, July 2.—Major Jack Coats, millionaire sportsman, who died of heart failure in his Park Lane F>Jat, had the reputation of a happy-go-lucky gambler who never broke his promise, lie was co-h«ir with his brother t» a fortune of £4,000,000 left by their father, a member of the Coats cotton family.

Major Coats returned in 19S0, after incurring colossal losses at Deauvijle, to a quiet family party in London, where he agreed at his relatives' earnest plea to forswear gambling, his greatest thrill.

lie had lost and won £9OOO at a turn of the card, won £40,000 in an afternoon in Paris, and lost £SO,OUO at Deauville at night.

Once he promised a wealthy woman friend half his winnings if he made £50,000. lie honoured the promise, despite her reluctance, returned to the table, and lost his own half of the winnings, and a large additional sum.