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R0THSTE1N IS $125,000 LOSER “KID BECKER $100,000 M SPABY A STAFF CORRESPONDENTSARATOGA, Aug. 23.—Not since the days when Cowan, Leo Mayer, “Kid”• Waller and others of their grit and 1 nerve chalked up the prices at the an-I nual meeting here has there been such a magnitude of wager as this season.I Individual winnings have been tremendous as have also individual losses. Among the latter Arnold Rothstein, is reputed the unenvied leader. The NewYork plunger, v/ho like John W. Oates of I old, will bet on anything in which there is I a gambling chance entailed, left here this week, according to common gossip, fully I $126,000 to the bad. Next to Rothstein I KJd Becker, the of St. Louis mogul, who I has taken his departure with his bankroll cut down to the extent of $100,000.I Among the big winners are John A. I Drake, J. K. Lt. Ross, Jim McClelland, Al I Koenigsberg, who bet $2,000 on Irregular I the day the latter, won and Ben Davis, who I bet on Eternal but has been getting the I merry haw-haw ever since having taken I away the worst of the price.
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Chicago Collyers Eye
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sat, Aug 24, 1918
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