Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-07-07
SPiNNER'S SIZE
REGULATES BETS
Fat Man, Big Numbers Win;
Thin Men, Small Numbers,
Is One System.
KILLINGS" LIVEN CASINO
Heavy Losses at Monte Carlo Prove
Bio Card for Advertising-Many
Systems Offered the Gullible
Yet Casino Continues
to Make Profit.

I.u.don-There is one infallible way
Of winning money at Monte Cario'
writes II correspondent of the London
Ilme.:, and that is this: When fat
man is spinning the wheel bet on the
high numbers; when ii is a thin man
bet ON the low. 1t stands to reason
does il not that II small man can
not throw big numbers. Another good
plan is To put youl stake in front VI
you. shut your eyes and push 1t out Oh
the table with rake. The god VI
chance, being blind, naturally likes
blind people. Which also stands to rea-
son, does it not? There you have the
whole philosophy of roulette.
or course there are people who tell
YOU that you have no right to begin to
gamble until, at least, you know the
oider of the numbers, both on the
Wheel and the table, by heart. Other
wise. how can you tell the voisinS-
the neghboring numbers-to the last
throw but one, SO that you can kno"
where the ball is coming back to!
Also you can buy elaborate and in
fallible systems which makes no men
ton of fat men or thin men, at fifty
shops in Monte Carlo. For forty
francs you can buy a system which
tells YOU how, on a capital of t2O, you
sun make-"infallibly day.
There is another, much sold. when
offers YOU 1000 chances to win against
one chance to lose
casino ALWAYS Wins.
Others guarantee-well, nearly guar
antee-a winning of from 800 to l'o"o
francs a day. and there are any guam
tity of systems under which losses
are "impusShle." Yet, in spite of it
nll the Casino is one of the most sue
rtSsful business institutions in Europe,
and will doubtless weather even the
difficulties of the exchange and the
rise in the cost of living.
Three days ago there man won, III
one of the tables, $1,000 francs at
single coup. The rules, it should be
explained, forbid larger stake than
will produce more than 5000 francs
at "A single bet But, having staked
the limit on an individual number
YOU can also lay bets-each to the
limit-on the various combinations OF
that number as well as on the "color,
the nigh or low, odd or even, the
''doZen"-whether the first, second or
third Of thirty-siX numberS-ahd so
forth.
| am told, but have not calculated
il, that it is thus possible to win over
10000 francs on single turn of the
wheel. Bat $1,000 is good enough and
the friend who had seen it and told me
added: And that loss of $1,000 will
be worth 100000 to the house. lie
probably underestimated it.
AS il was three days ago, the man
who won the money has probably lost
il agate 10y now and in any case the
fame OF it has gone far abroad ana
brought any number of new gamblers
to the table. 1t is by such advertise
ments mat the Casino thrives.
They Keep at 1t.
Almost every year new books telling
YOU now TO win at Monte Carlo are
published Every year series of charm
ing articles are written for one journal
or another analyZfng various "sys-
TENS" one presumes that the writer's
receive no payment from the Casino
ror their labor. But how handsomely
it could afford to pay them! There Is
surely no money making institution
in the world which gets so much ana
such admirable free advertisement as
the Societe des Bains de Mer (as the
proprietary organization is called) OF
Monte Carlo.
The one cardinal and dominant fact
is that there Is always one extra
chance in 81 against the bettor. The
odds are 10 to Is in favor of the house.
With absolutely even luck, in every 81
bets you will lose one more than you
will win The odds are all calculated
Oh the basis of the thirty-six numbers
on the table, and the thirty-seventh
number (zero) is the perquisite of the
establishment. With this qualification
the game is absolutely fair.
Few sane men, | think, suspect the
Casino of cheating. 1t does not need
to. That thirty-seventh chance-which
Is no chance, but certainty-is suf-
ficient. 1t operates inevitably; as re-
morselessly as "the blind Fury with
the abhorred shears" does at the end
of the life of each of us.
The tables in the various SALES In
the Casino and the Sporting club do
not all run for the same hours Also
some Of them are for trente ct quar-
ante and not for roulette. But l be-
leve it Is fair to say that the result
is about equivalent to twenty-one
. tables at roulette running for ten
hours a day. At all events the rough
calculation will suffice.
How II Figures Out.
Now, the time taken by each turn Of
the wheel, with the necessary settle
ments, is about three minutes; or 1t
has been when have timed 1t In these
last days. That Is to say that on one
or other of the 21 tables seven coups
are being cleaned up every minute.
The house wins one bet in every 81;
and 1t Is, again, not unfair to reckon