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Nicholas Forzely, or Forzelli, was his real name. He was a race-track gambler, the son of a Syrian hop-seller, who seldom bet on a horse except to win. In the course of his wild career, he was often broke and more than once a millionaire. In 1923 he swaggered into New Orleans with a few dollars in his pocket and came away, after the season's racing, with $800,000. A few months later he lost his money and got pneumonia. He went to a hospital and said, "Pneumonia is easy to beat...
When Nick F. wiggled off, the New York Times, whose city editor would not know about a race-track gambler, ran a confused story which spoke of Nick F. as "Nick the Greek." Nick the Greek (Nicholas Dandolas) is a gambler too but he seldom plays the horses. Craps, low ball, stud poker and faro are his specialties. Jack Dempsey's friend, he lost a hundred grand on the first Dempsey-Tunney fight. At last reports, Nick the Greek was alive and broke in Los Angeles...
Like Nick F. and Nick the Greek, many gamblers are known by mysterious and confusing titles. The most successful racetrack gambler at present is Chicago O'Brien, who regards running horses as an investment. Saratoga is his capital; he plays one horse a day, usually a favorite, and never goes broke overnight...
...forgotten much of his Assembly record. . . . "He, with all his intelligence, with all his honesty, with all his courage-seems to have left his high qualities in escrow with Charles Murphy [oldtime Tammany Boss] when he went to Albany and there made a Tammany record on the saloon, the gambler and the prostitute. "No Klansman in a boob legislature, cringing before a Kleagle or a Wizard, was more subservient to the crack of the whip than was Al Smith-ambitious and effective and smart as chain lightning-in the Legislature when it came to a vote to protect the saloon...
...officer who loses considerably more than he can pay at a game which has points of similarity, if it is not really the common variety, of Vingt-et-un. The account of his first night's gaming is the high point of the narrative. Willie is not an inveterate gambler, in fact he is naive to the point of ignorance. Temperamentally he is a graceful loser, but fundamentally he is at a loss to cope with the situation. From the general nature of Schnitzler's work, the tremendous coincidence of Fate at the end, was hardly to be expected...