Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-10-13

PlUTK SPORTS,

Let no one who gazeth upon the
festive little circles Of Piute bucks,
squaws and papooses so frequently to
be met with in the back yards, old
mining dumps, and other eligible
places about Gold Hill or Virginia,
suppose for a moment that none Of
them understand how to play cards
properly. Bless you, some Of those
sedate looking warriors are up to the
mysteries Of more than II game. and
are real "poker sharps"- regular
"sports." They have learned that
. white mans accomplishment to per-
lection. Coin earned at saving or
splitting stove-wood about town fur
nishes capital, wen If it Is only n few
quarters or short bits, and they are
are bound to play till the sharpest
player wins it all, though they hive
to continue their regular sedRces for n
week. "Captain Charley" took = trip
out to Austin n couple of years ago.
He was in aifluent circumstances when
he went out-laying n good pony, r
ping hat, n red shirt, military coat,
shoes on, and %, all in quarters and
bits. He struck n game out there. 1t
was his favorite game-poker. He
stayed n week. He walked home bare
footed, dressed in M old underslirt.
He left even his venerable old plug in
the camp Of the enemy. Captain
Charley il a sadder and wiser man,
and says: "Reese ribber Injun NJ
good. Heap stealum. S'pose you got
four kings; you don't bet your hoss,
cause his catchum four C sure. Me
sarby him you bet"
These Piutes may not perhaps have
got civilized up to playing faro, euchre
or poker very extensively with their
white brethren just yet, but 1t seems
that in the older settled portions Of the
continent, away east Of US, the Indians
keep pace with the progress Of civil
ization. At least We judge so by the
following, which we clip from the
New York World: 1T is said that In
the vicinity of Indian reservations
Innocent sharperS at cards are often
astouuded to lind that where they ex-
pect to beat they are beaten ut their
own game. a game Of euchre or poker
is proposed to them rs o as they
have received the money due to them
from the Government and they.
nothing 10th, sit down, and. with most
stolld faces, "'cheat the eyes" out Of
those who picked them up for flats.
They see through all tricks, and take
them as a matter Of course, evidently
believing them to be part of the game,
to be met by skillful counter-chccSs OH
their part. Chicago has lately seen an
Indian half-breed who played at bill
lizards so we'll that he beat even
Cracker Jack" pete Snyder" and
other billiard sharps. lie was what n
local paper calls :" al overgrown,
gawky customer" who looked as
though 4 cue would be rs much out Of
place in his hands rs a pen. One
night he beat the great Charley Saylor
at the Sherman House, and took his
money like n white nan Then an
innocent youth, who had been watch
ing the game, bet he could't do it
again. and was invcigled into betting
$50 OH Saylor. The game was played,
and soon the professional gentleman
and friend Of Saylor, who had inveigled
the poor boy, saw, with surprise, the
halt-breed play as bad rs he possibly
could, allowing his opponent to win,
and permitting his confederate, the
innocent youth and poor boy. to walk
oil with the stakes. How these poor
Indians are cheated by the t%reacherous
male face ~