Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-10
WINNINGS ON THE GREEN CLOTH.
Fortunes Lost and won Upon the Turning of a Single Card.
 From the Chicago Herald.1

WINNINGS ON THE Gfk1ASASN CAOLkAs Fortunes Lost and Won Upon the
 Turning Of Single Card.
 From the Chicago Herald.l
 e'Didn't Crnmmey make big winning here some time ago2n asked the Herald man.
 ''Yes. Along in 1875 he commenced on twelve dollars, I believe, and after playing for two or three days on Randolph and Clark streets, pulled out with between twenty-five and thirty thousand dollars. He lost it all though Howg He went out into the San Juan country, along with Jack Haverly and Bob Filkins, and sunk it in a mine near Sil- yer City"
 The conversation then turned on big win nings and Iosings here and elsewhere.
 s'1've seen some big rolls change hands here," said an old dealer. FsTom Manley, now of Dayton, O., pulled out fifteen hun dred dollars off of seventy five cents one George Lester, well known all over as Eng fish George He went into 2 Theatre alley one afternoon in the summer of 1876 and re- duced the bank capital to the amount of eighteen thousand dollars. He's the luckiest man in the business though, and has made many big winning off of a shoe string"
 eDidn't Pat Sheedy go broke here once?"
 l dropped forty thousand dollars at 125 Clark street. He lost it, too, in three plays. Many an eastern high-roIler comes out here with the idea that he can burst up a game, but he generally gets left. There was 'Dink' Davis, for instance. He won seventy-fve thousand dollars at Saratoga one season and came out here and began dealing at 148 Clark street. While there he lost thirty thousand dollars. That's the most unlucky house in the city for dealers In 1876 Frank Herman was con sidered the wealthiest sporting man in the West. But then he dealt off forty-fve thou sand dollars without ever booking a win n1ng. One week, however, his luck took turn and he got it all back and more besides. He finally went broke on the Board of Trade. The same year Danny Quinn beat the bank at 148 out of large amount in day and nights play It's bloody unlucky house to the packer, I tell you"
 EtWho owns the house?"
 Bowling until quite recently, but he sold out to the Minneapolis combination and has retired from the business"
 q suppose Chicago is only marker, so to speak, where big winnings have been 1nade?"
 s'Yes, you might say so. Big winnings have been made in every city in the land. Ben Colvin, fToothpick Ben, made John Whalley's game at Cincinnati sick one night. Pat Pettibone, who died here some years ago, knocked four hundred thousand dollars out of the game at SIS Broadway, New York; Old Man Dancer took half a million out of that and the game at s Barclay street, and there was a card-writer in New York, named January, who bled the dealers viciously for many years. remember one of you news paper men who did some tall playing in his day. His name was Reed. He used to plant up in the Yazoo country. Along in the win ter of 1868 he dropped into New Orleans to settle with his factor, and one night went into Carondelet street. A Polack named Sobieski was in the chair, and before mid night Reed drew out nineteen thousand dol lars. The last time I saw him he was in this city and looked as if he'd blown it all in. You've all heard of HeLry Morrison! He's called the wonder, and can borrow any amount from any sport in New York. He always pays, but where he gets his money to do it with no one knows. Some think he's his is that he never loans dollar"
 E'Are these big winnings the result of sys- tenn or luck?"
 Generally, indeed, I may say always, of luck. There are men who play single out and double out, colors, progression and so on. But none of them scarcely ever tell. The big winnings that are made come to the man who puts his money down in a lump. The player who puts down 2, check at time is invariably left. The man who plays the limit, and, as l said, puts his money down, wins big-if the luck comes his way"
 FEIs there no system or rule that followed will beat the ga1ne2'
 ''Yes, there is one rule that is infallible- keep clear of it. It's 8 losing speculation, and in the long run, to use the language of Owens as John Unit, never can be made to pay"