The San Francisco call., 1905-01-20
English Gambler
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speoia, Dispatch to The Call.

;. :. MONACO. Jan. 1s.-whether success
:. attends the attempt now being made
: by an Englishman named Wall to
>: break the bank of Monte Carlo with
:. the aid Of a novel luck machine" in
;. Vented by. him, there is no doubt that
:. his invenrIon Is the most successruI
s.: thing Of the kind ever tried at Monaco.
=, Up to now Wall has backed his ma
= CHINE against the roulette tables at the
-: Casino at twenty-three sittings Dur
ing. thirteen Of these he has won and
Ion ten occasions lost and his play,
i. which so far has been rather of an ex-
Perinental nature, has resulted in win
nangs to the extent of $625. His opera
=. lions are watched daily by crowds of
people, and kilograms congratulating
o. :h.m: on his success are coming to him
:, from. all parts of the Continent.
Wall, who is we'll known in London
-: as sportsman, claims that with his
- machine he can win 10 per cent a day
:: for life, at roulette, or break the bank
. In a. day. His machine is an innocent
booking little silver box about six
" Inches long and three broad. 1t is flat
:: and. on its face are sixteen openings
about the size of a ten-cent piece. I'm
der each opening is to be seen a num-
ber,. and the numbers are variously
.coIored red and black. BY touching a
:: spring the sixteen numbers change in
- an instant and as they change the
player makes his bet.
: This luck machine" is the result of
= fifteen years experimenting on the part
;: of its inventor Wall says that ever
..-since he was a boy he has been inter-
:eSted in the mathematical laws of
chance. and that his chief ambition in
rhfS connection was to discover some
means of neutralizing. if not beating
the turn in favor of the bank at rou-
'::+4ette.. Not until twelve months ago,
:: however, did he hit on the idea which
>; is embodied in the machine with which
he is now experimenting
-" MACHINE VERSUS MACHINE.
:: II have studied every known system"
:. he says, "and have found their weak
points. l have invented a machine to
fight a machine. 1t does away with
the laws of chance, and by its use
can. stand a week of steady bad luck
without exceeding a loss of a moderate
: capital
Wall chose Christmas eve for start
ting his fight against the roulette ta-
bles at Monte Carlo. About the middle
of. the evening he entered the Casino,
and, sitting down at one of the tables,
produced a quantity of silver coins and
the luck machine" whose perform
ances are now the chief topic of con-
:.Nersation here He followed the play
at the tables for a short time, closely
watching the disks of his machine. and
then played and won. Then he changed
:. the disks by touching a spring on the
box; played, and won a second time,
. .whereupon a crowd gathered around
. his chair. The croupers fidgeted and
STARED While Wall went on consulting
his box before each bet and winning on
. the game. AS he went on, the crowd
grew larger and several officials of the
Casino also gathered to see the play.
:. Having completed a hundred bets the
: Sportsman picked up his machine and
his winnings which amounted to $500,
.: and left the room.
STREAK OF BAD LUCK.
Wallis worst luck with his machine
:. came to him on the day after Christ
nras, when for two hours he played
!: with all the chances dead against him.
Zero turned up three times and Wall,
WHO began by stalking 81 at time, was
ultimately obliged to stake SIPS at each
bet. Clicking his machine imperturba-
: bly,, however, he went on with what
seemed an almost impossible battle,
:. fought his way back almost to the
i: starting point and at the close was
: only $50 to the bad.
Old players here declare that they
have. never seen anything like Wallis
6. play and are of the opinion that the ex-
perience just described would have
Broken him if he had played any known
system. The officials at Monte Carlo
requested the Englishman to exhibit
the machine to them and he complied
with their request. 1t is believed that
they are not entirely at ease regarding
what Wall may accomplish when he
begins really serious work, but thus far
=; they have made no attempt to prevent
him from using his invention.
Wall says that his luck machine"
represents the play of sixty-four per-
= sons fighting simultaneously against
the bank on a preconcerted plan, each
move of each of the players being de-
e: eided beforehand. He says that it was
impossible mentally to control this
:. number of players and that he first ex-
: perimented with eight, but even this
:. proved unsatisfactory, as eight sets of
. calculations could not be made between
each turn of the wheel. So he deter
mined to invent a machine which
would make the calculations mechani-
cally. He says that if sixty three of his
players lose and one of them wins he
comes out even. If sixty-two lose and
" two win. he wins sixty-fou4 units on
/. the balance. The game cam be played
with anything from 81 to a 500 unit,
and unlike all other systems, its inven-
tor says, 1T never runs into really big
figures even under the worst of bad
luck. Wallis exact method of play he
(. keeps secret, but his plan is to gam
. BILE on all the simple chances at rou-
lette. He ignores Zero" which he says
does not affect the ultimate issue.
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