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- ↑ Herald, G. W. and Radin, E. D.: The Big Wheel (London: Robert Hale, 1965)
- ↑ Fletcher, Anne (2018), From the Mill to Monte Carlo: The Working-Class Englishman Who Beat the Monaco Casino and Changed Gambling Forever, Amberley, ISBN 978-1445671390
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- ↑ Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan, Chances Are...: Adventures in Probability, page 60-61.
- ↑ Berenson, Bernard. My Dear BB - The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-1959. Yale. p. 11 (footnote).
- ↑ The Cornishman, 19 January 1911
- ↑ Books which claim that Bower inspired the song include: Gilbert, D.: Lost Chords (New York: Cooper Square, 1970); and Lax, R. & Smith, F.: The Great Song Thesaurus (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984)