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...Slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf, 13-time world's "pocket billiard" (pool) champion : his 14th championship, after three years of retirement ; by beating nervous onetime champion (1934) Andrew Ponzi 125-to-107 in the final playoff of a four-way tie after a 66-game round robin; in Manhattan...
...wonderfully persuasive eyes was not John Bruce Heath at all but John Neville. He had been jailed for fraud in Illinois, was wanted by the police of Boston, where he had mulcted various people of some $100,000 to start his financial sheet. Like Boston's Charles Ponzi, he promised huge returns on funds entrusted to him for reinvestment, made enough "dividend" payments from principal to reassure his victims, who then hurried to pile in more & more. But none of these outrageous facts was known to the Observer's subscribers until last week...
Sued for Divorce. Charles Ponzi, 54, celebrated Boston swindler, now a Roman tourist guide; by Mrs. Rose Ponzi whom he married in 1918; in Cambridge, Mass. Grounds: he had served "more than five years" (1922-34) in prison. Explained she: "When he was down . . . I stuck...
...Roof Garden of Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, the players maneuvered stiffly in dinner jackets before a sparkling audience on tiers of blue & gold seats, longed vainly for spittoons and overhead counters. A preopening shot was more reminiscent of the squalling & brawling of the corner pool parlor. Titleholder Ponzi refused to play unless paid a $1,000 bonus, sought an injunction against the tournament's sponsors. When this was denied, he sulked in his own emporium...
...second Dempsey-Tunney fight in 1927. Lately he has been running a saloon on Chicago's West Madison Street three blocks from Clerk Van Derck's bank. At Amalgamated Dave Barry kept a joint account with Joseph Baiata, a onetime barber who is supposed to have taught Charles Ponzi all that swindler knew. Joe Baiata served five years in jail for helping himself to $200,000 in a Massachusetts bank, and be fore that he helped wreck a big Buffalo insurance company. In his earlier days his favorite method was first to found a bank, then loot...