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French Champion. At Chantilly, France, A. M. Vagliano dug his ball out of the cuppy, sandy lies; kept it out of the briars and birchwoods along the boundaries; evaded the gullies near the clubhouse; holed his putts on the bleached, worm-ridden greens. Against him played strapping André Gobert, onetime French Davis Cup (tennis) player. André is a newcomer to golf, stiff of wrist, mathematical with his backswing, monstrously strong at long shots; but he needs his gracious, white- toothed smile for such opponents as Monsieur Vagliano. The latter vanquished André, 6 and 4 in 36 holes...
Three weeks ago the baccarat syndicate, composed of two wealthy Greeks and an Armenian?Gregory Vagliano, Sographos and Condgmed-jian?lost 2,500,000 francs ($137,750.00); two weeks ago they lost 6,000,000 francs ($330,600.00); last week saw the coup de grÂce with a loss of 10,000,000 francs ($551,000.00) ; the bank was broken and the E Deauville Casino, for the first time in history, is in darkness at the height of the season. Lost ? 18,500,000 francs; produced?nothing...
...common knowledge on the Continent that a majority of the shares in the Casino are in the hands of Sir Basil Zaharoff, the mysterious European banker, whose millions are legion, and who has, it is reported, financed Emperors and Kings, wars and rebellions. The next largest shareholder is Gregory Vagliano, adventurer and gambler. On the night of March 12 of this year at the Sporting Club he-won 2,000,000 francs, the bulk of which was so great that it had to be carried to his hotel by Casino porters in ten waste paper baskets crammed to the limit...