LUCK OF THE MONTE CARLO CASINO
«+» IS IT DEPARTING? What has come to the Casino? Is its luck departing? Two immensely successful winners in one season. The mantle of the great Darnborough seems to have fallen on the shoulders of Captain Bower, whose winnings are put. as high as £250,000; this useful little amount probably constitutes a record. In one "afternoon this lucky individual "broke the bank." — that is to say," cleaned out all the .money at that particular table — no fewer than three times. Judging at any rate! by the liberal way he has subscribed to local charities, (Japtain Bower must have had considerably the better, of the tables; in tact, he made a definite statement to a well-known English journalist that he had won over £200,000. warn borough specialised in roulette, Bower sticks to trente et quarante. As a set-off against such enormous winnings plenty of people have "dropped a good many^ more thousands than they can afford; a Mexican gambler, for instnee, lost a cool £8000 in a few minutes ' the other af>.rnoon.
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Grey River Argus, 22 April 1911, Page 2
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