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Show Gambling Full of Tricks, Expert Maintains "VOU can't win. A The gambling trade, as practised by a few of the successful gam- biers in the country is filled with ingenious tricks, by which , overconfident amateurs in the nation are being fleeced every dayji by the boys who know there's only one answer "You can't win." I J. C. Furnas, noted writer and author of "And Sudden Death," in the February issue of Cosmopolitan Cosmo-politan Magazine, presents a sensational sen-sational expose of the tricks of the gambling fraternity. Michael MacDougall is a card detective. "I know of only one way to get to be a card detective," MacDougall Mac-Dougall told Mr. Furnas. "I started in Philadelphia, when I was fourteen. One day I wandered wan-dered to the Globe Vaudeville Theater, The-ater, where Horace Goldin, the famous Roval Russian Illusionist. i J ' Michael MacDougall, noted card detective. was headlining the bill. "The first performance had me popeyed, with moving pictures that turned into real life and girls who walked through glass -and such. I stayed through the next show. This time the illusion went to pot, for the musicians in the orchestra had left the pit door open. There, under the stage, plain as day was Goldin's crew of stagehands going through all of the business that produces illusions on the stage itself. "That spoiled everything, and I resented It. So, after the act was finished, I went backstage and saw Goldin. He asked me what the so-and-so I wanted, and I told him. 1 wanted a Job with the act. "He said I was inexperienced. I said I was smart and could learn. He studied me a moment and asked, 'Are you limber?' "I doubled into a knot, for I was small and wiry. (I still am.) He hired me." For years, MacDougall toured the world and took every opportunity oppor-tunity he found to learn about gamblers and gambling. It wasn't until the depression that his knowledge became his career. The depression didn't break MacDougall MacDoug-all but it sent to the cleaners a certain young member of an aristocratic aris-tocratic eastern family, and that's what put him to work spotting crooks. Thi3 amateur now Is the famous fam-ous card detective and has played in scores of fashionable clubs, trains, steamships everywhere gambling goes on. He always gets his man. The writer exposes the simple and also the intricate card tricks that are being practiced in thousands thou-sands of gambling games every day. |