The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-19
Chicago Record.l

Phoenix, AT-Z.-WiIl A DarnbrOuEh a
! gambler with a world wide reputation.
Z Ia. just passed through Phoenix to the
intense CONSERVATION OF local roulette
dealers alter creating a reign Of terror
southwest he is now in Los Angeles,
en- route TO San Francisco and the north
! west, and he expects TO clean up roulette
games aion8 the balance OF the course,
as he has been doing for three years. His
mon his innings in southern and cen
+ tral Arizona nave amounted to $3.50. In
the City OF Mexico he neLted $1,000 in n
few days, and he has not only been sue
ceSstul thus lar in making big winnings,
but he has prevented his reputation from
Nine years ago Darnbrough was taking
pedagogtc course at the state normal
university at No NAL, his He was ,
wears cd unusually apt and his parents
had cut not tor lin a career as an cIu-
Gator and possibly a theO!Og12n. Today
he is going through th5, west leaving a
trail OF broken roulette whee!s ana carry
ms away many thousands OF dollars as
receipts from MS MAJ NSiOUS mann p-tlI-
ton OF the numbered wheel and the ivory
bali. ftI..
When in school young Darnbroughs
ideas did rot ccnfcrm to those of his
parents, and he now laughs as he tells
Vi his narrow escape from the ministry
or tha n.OnOtCnOuS existence ~
te2chtF career. Within less than fbree
years The illinois Eoy mas devsio1,l 4 irfo
Ci-G ca ne SmoOtaeSL gamblers on earth
u hICh IS uKeIy to break into his SvsteyT13
o. pay, ne mas achieved reputation
IHaL IS word wide. In that short period
OF tlme ne mas operated in ali the prin-
clpal gambling resorts n Europe Aneri-
CO ana MEXICO and mas won and spert
several fortunes.
In three years he has cleared over 500 e.
10 IN America and Europe and much of
IL was won IN the clubs of New York
I l-.-.-lG ana Parls. At Buffalo a few
months ago he made a large winning in
IN principal club. Since then his fame
mas grown and many efforts have been
maze 10 iathCm his plan of action but
ali We're unaVailing until a Pboeniv
Sain5.er detected his trick In this citv
Sons times called the Monte Carlo of
parts Of the earth are assembled, but
DaInbrCugI Outw-tted them until he had
ceaIed up several thousand dollars when
ne sought greener fields.
His moous operandi is simple and efsec-
tive. He has q helper, w H. Adams. a
gambler who IS well known all over the
country especially in Chicago and New
4 ~ h CStLAoI Oqgh pays the game, while
ADAMS SITS al the side of the wheel car
Isssly toying with cane and watchinp
IILc pays with a nonchalant air. Darn
broush PLAYS heavily usually betting The
II II, Wtlch me Z me CCpeT will At ines
permit 10 N as hI- q as 500 on y n,Is
LuihDer' Ut Sc dom FISHER. If Adams does
ms 5,o ToIk {ne INNING on single revo-
luuon on me wheel IN bet OF that kind
amounts to @,I5G. The scheme is EASILY
explained. Darnsbrough bets on two Sc
RES OF numbers. The numbers of either
series are placed side bv side on the re-
NolNlng wheel. but scattered on the abIe
Wnere he places his chips. The wheel
tL2 ms ard Adams watches the ball An
parentiy caTelezsiy he swings The ca1o
uEdet the table and presses the end
against the bottom of the rapidly turing
W2eel. Long practice has made him per
feet and he slows the wheel Just enough
to send the sphere among the numbers
covered by DaTnbrOUgh. The chances
than 10
that he Will strike tbs right number but
It IS eight to one as against thirty-live to
the balance of chance and trade is large
~ in Darnbrough's favor.
In MS school days Darnbrough was a
baseball pitcher of remarkable promise.
he and Clark Griffith, Chicago's famous
pitcher, learning the game together at
Normal. DaInbTOugh was considered as
cleFef an artist on the diamond as Cfrif-
nth, and ne gave up his school work TO
take up professional bail Through his
connection with SpOrt5n g l'fe he met H r
LEVIN, the wealthy owner of a cafe at
btOOlnLnSJO soon he married the daugh-
Ter OF Levin. A year later the latter died
ana DarnbrOuSh became the manager of
the business Life in Bloomington was
TOO SLOW Tor him and he sold OuJ. Since
then MS career has been meteoric His
cieVerne5s has earned for him many thou
SANDS OF dollars from those shrewdest Of
Duhco men, the gamblers. and it has all
come IN the same way. DarnbrOUgh's
hodSL belng that ali his winnings have
come from men Of that class
A few days ago he left Phoenix, after
making a cleanup of several thousand
dollars from local resorts At the CITY
Of Mexico, shortly before coming to Phoe-
nix DarnbrCugh won more than $4,000
At Tucson, NogaleS and other southern
Arizona points he cleared 5000 more
pressing the gamesters in the smaller
places tor ready cash. He awakened tha
natura! superstition of the gamblers VINO
regard him as "A man possessed of a
charm. They first raised the limits TO the
ceiling for his benefit but a short play
convinced them that they did not desire
his game