ENGLISH PLAYBOY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 8 September 1939, Page 3

ENGLISH PLAYBOY

OUT TO RIVAL GABLE LOSSES AT GAMBLING • LONDON, Aug. 6. “I lost £30.000 as a racehorse owner and backer in the past five months, to I'm .selling my horses .and going- to Hollywood to make money by anting,'’ says 26-year-old Gordon Roll. "Perhaps I’ll bo a second Clark Gable." ■Bespectacled and stylishly dressed, Roll is one of Or-' he-'r-. to a $4,359,000 fortune left by Sir Cecil Roll for .dis* tivbutioh among his farce sans. . .a The ■ eldest is tr. Ease End curate'. Gordon Roll was once a newspaper worker, earning 15a a -week. When he came info the money last year, lie ' declared he was going -Jo shake up Taftcrs'all’s. "I am no mug plsrv'ng n big coup,?, ho said. Nevertheless he dropped so much, that his bank manager telephoned him that he must stop, ,: wo I wired Steve Donoghua to sel.l my 12 horse?,” said Roll. He went gambling to Le Touquet this week, rjhd - said that ?o far the tables . have ■ been better than »hc ■horses. '■ "1 lost £l5O t". Try.' day and won £l3O bn Wednesday." he reported. "Although 1 have •.qtiirndercrt them** ssndV I still have enough left, tor enjoyment. • y. ; ' ■ Roll paid lioOgrt;. far hi a eleventh hoi'Sd, Dialect, ahd created'a sanation When /Dialect ran second at Hnr.';S Park;' 1 ' m: ' ■ Roll went down on his hands and knees, plubked tufts cf'-grass to feed the hone, and -placed a top hat co. Dialect’s head as he led him in.