Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-17
GAMBLING GOES ON
BUT STAKES ARE LESS
European Resorts 40 Popular
az Ever But Gold Piles Are
Smaller.

heiKht at Deauvlllc. swell seaside re-
sort In the North OF France SAYS
Ferdinand Tuoky In New York World.
The same inveterste ones who divide
their year between the three gambling
oentres- -Ostend. Monte Carlo and
Deauvilleto chance their luck on
roulette or baccarat, according to
local police bans, are now thronging
tho French resort OF fashion by the
sea.
Gambling has In no way abated I'm
Europe since the war although the
tables M longer glitter with gold
plaqucs or bone counters being used
instead and the Identity or the play
ers has radically altered. In 1914 and
before, the tables where the highest
playing occurred wrre principally the
preserves OF weli-known figures I'm
the international picture, Russian no.
bility dominating the scene Indeed
the Russians, fRbulously wealthy and
With no sense Of the value Of money.
were generally credited with losing
more than all the other nationalities
put together. It was the time OF vast
and ownership extending to the
stsppes. and beyond. and the Cznrist
nobility could do more or ,es@ what II
liked In the financial line.
How different the picture today
The same nobility. shadows of their
former selves. haunt the same rooms.
but now with hardly a franc In their
pockets with which to buy their next
meal. Sometimes, unable to ersdi-
cate entirely the old love OF gambling.
they elect to go without even the
daily means OF subsistence In order
to chance something. however sma II,
ON The green balse. No one ever lends
money to a broken-down Russian on
the Rivira or at AK or wherever else
they happen to conRreRate, they al
ways arrange that he or she will he
fed at n certain specified restaurant.
Among the newcomers are, of
course, the war profiteers and the
nouveaux riches, the men smoking the
, fattest cigars and exuding over-iiving
| The women dazzling croupiers and
/ lookers-on alike with f1ngsrs ablaxe
J with briilinnts. II is quite customary
2 for such folk TO lose or win at a sit
} ting OF baccarat as much es two
hundred thousand francs. One younp
e Tfenchman, formerly a wAiter, ere.
= ated sensation at Nice early thl,
9 year by carrying off over nfilior
Q francs In n fortnight--a popular sue
e cess. In that he played throuEhou
4 against formidable and notorioui
English gambler operating on bchal
OF a syndicate. This form OF play.
= professional representing syndicate
e has increased OF late years. The pro
e fossional gambler gets well paid nc
;, cording to the success with which n
7, plays (baccarat requiring much skill
full blufflng and reading of the oth4
y mans mind), but he is never ailowe
: to play unless one of the syndicate
4. looking on. Six prominent English
o men employed the gambler abov
mentioned. and they used TO TAX
y turns In watching him, one comm
Is out from England each week.
l. Although they may not play s
Ie high women are worse gamblers tha
q men--wcrse In the sense that the
Il have got the gambling bug" as it
'e called, more in their system .Fo
to gambling, in it's advanced NANTES
" tations, is little short OF a form
to brain alteration. A man or woma
~ held in the wise will think and tai
nothing else will spend every wakin
y hour at the tables, and be restless an
re tistrait IL temporarily separated frol
p the Casino at meal time. Everythin
a. else in life--love, pleasure, frient
nt ships, ambitions aspirations, even tn
q matter of personal adornnent an
in cleanliness-they seem to forget.
"A You will often hear a woman gan
10 bier say: IF / could only develo
some other interest, something to TAX
inc away from the rooms!" But the
cen'ti they are held there. and con
out jaded, irritable and limp after
full days session, only to fly back d
GO rectly after dinner to remain uut
the small hours
Ii has been noted that Invetera
ru gamblers are a type by themseive
~ whether men or women, and that the
n escape other vices. such as drinkir
az CT wild living But few. who ha,
~ seen them In the throes, would cai
~ TO change places with them.
~ For every one player in the room
"a there are probably dozen attendan,
a. detectives and hansers-on. The la
ter form mobile colony OF their ow
a., end follow the seasons in a circle fro
q Monte Carlo to Vichy and so arour
t. Deauville or Ostend. Tney are
he both sexes, and their mission
We identical and unswerving--to pr
he upon winners. The men are we
mi. groomed, travelled, plausible Ego,
I al s..k.s.
ist borrowing a thousand franc no
in from winning and expansive strau
el, er The women are of the vamp
he siren type, often employed as deco
ell on regular SYSTEM a tale. of W
ever on their lips They seldom vi
themselves, but they watch very clos
~ who plays and wins According
wise winners Of big money never Ia
IN their banknotes with them out of t
Casino, but deposit them with the a
:. ihorities in return for a receipt a
s ~ cali in the light of MONDAY next NOR
-, ing whom there will be less chance
.ve meeting a waylaying party on {
"a way to the bank Robert Sevler, /
no English gambler, used to vary II
procedure. Living ten miles cut
20 Monte Carlo, he used to motor hoi
,p- with his winnings guarded by T.
~ ex>pugilists armed with resolvers
ec- Sometimes, however, painful TRACE
snt steps i'm.
1at In the autumn of lass year there
.ial rived down at Nice a handsome e.
aid lishwoman of forty accompanied
re- her sister" the prettiest litsle slip
girl. The two lived in style at
be fast and fashionable Hotel Rubi.
the the Promenade des Anglais. until I
led elder woman had lost her entire {
ga lral allowance of twelve thousand Il