Show JI ALTER WALTER WINCHELL 1 N. N Y Penny Gambling Makes Bookies Rich In the current I ti e ve t in New York both public and andes es have been amazed at the I Illee lice for bringing in culprits aced acHed ac- ac Hed ed d of merely pitching pennies 1 ally the magistrates dismiss iese a se violations as 89 too petty to insider ider The low lowdown down on this w coin game will interest all It was introduced here Sing ring the war by b merchant seas scan sea sea- len s n from Australia where it isely isely is idely ely known as two up lefly two pennies are arc placed on onEdell Edell stick of wood and tossed the air air The bettors bettor ger er on whether they come down iro heads two tails or one of each ere tf are at least 70 such games trays ya going on and the bookies irry as S much as to cover Ibets bets at a 5 fee It is mated that more than 2000 0 changes hands daily on New rk's wk's waterfronts by these pen- pen pitchers r I When George c Raft was revealed have made 13 passes in a row lii TB dice game it was obvious f experts that he couldn't have en een cheating because no out bust-out an n. n would dare to draw suspicion himself by making more than wee ee or four passes at a time t. t Not one out nut of a u hun hundred red play- play It and few pro gamblers knows knowse le e e exact odds against a dice tauter that is the percentage inV in V or l r of the house and many reface ref- ref ace nee books are wide of the mark fet t the right figures are in m Noah Webster's Websters d dictionary as to 14 t 4 tells about the bIer bler who complained to a deal deal- Ive T got the worst luck ine ine in it e e world When I roll the dice I Ier Ier er make a pass The dealer lied If that's true you ought be a millionaire All Alf you vou have Ho do is bet against yourself f Gambling Is s an ancient vice ice and a world-wide world thrill for millions The expectation of what the next throw of the dice turn of ot the card or spin of the wheel may bring encourages the hunger Two thousand years ago a Roman satirist told how the Germans constantly constantly constantly con con- gambled and after losing all threw themselves into the pot If they lost again it meant being sold into Bla slavery very The ancients tried as do the moderns to legislate against gambling gam gam- bling Rome forbade it Thc They called it effeminate and unmanly England clamped down In the because it interfered with archery practice for public defense defense defense de de- de- de In the gambling flourished despite laws passed to restrict rather than abolish h it Week ends in Britain found coffee houses and social clubs crowded crowde i The city of Bath England became a forerunner o of French Lick and Saratoga in the theU theU U USA S A A British secretary of or state lost 50 grand in 22 hours a lot of mazuma in those days dayt for politicians His property was seized to pay his debts The earl carl of Sunderland betrayed state secrets to France to str straighten his gambling gambling gambling gam gam- bling table losses Britain finally had to pass a sort of ot natIOnal national national na na- na- na prohibition act against gambling gambling gam gain bling hUng in 1845 because the vice became a national menace All gambling debts w were re canceled a athing athing athing thing a lot of birds would probably like to have happen right now In the IOU S A. A I Your chance of ot getting a straight flush in poker is one in four of or a kind one in full house one In m The next time youre you're in one of the four corners of the globe in a bridge I game remember that your jour chance of ot holding 12 cards of the same suit is a mere merc one in m and to hold 13 of the same suit one in |