St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-17

fortune herself was directing his every
play. He could not lose. Every bet he
made won. and many Of those at the
table stopped their game to watch him.
At 10 O'Clock he arose with exactly
$4,000 to his credit. There was just the
faintest tinge of color in his cheeks,
showing excitement, but his hand
was just as steady as when
he made his first play. He gathered up
won," said an elderly gentleman at the
table. HE will now begin to revel in
wine" The dealer smiled and casually
remarked, "Oh, | guess not. He has
won BEFORE" The player was George
Suydam, who once dealt faro bank
for Mike Murray. His apparent
youthfulness had won him pity, but he
was and is one of the clevereSt gamblers
IN this city. 1t took just two days to
break him. Phil Daily got the $4,000
back in good time, and gamblers in this
city often laugh to-day over Suydam's
luck on that occasion, for he told every
one confdentially the night he made
the big winning that he would start for
the Hot Springs in Arkansas the next
day, for his health. He never started.
One might tell a dozen such stories OF
luck in Phil Daly's club house. but they
would be only repetitiOns of episodes in
the gamblers life since the first man
staked his money and won or lost.
1t is currently reported that Daily
himself would live to see every one
leave the tiger alone. He certainly does
his beststo keep young men away from
his tables. One July afternoon he went
into the roulette room. and saw pale
faced and excited youth of eighteen
trying to get ahead of the delusiye ball.
The old gambler waited until he had
won So or $40, and then tapped him on
the shoulder. He called him over to
the window, drew aside the curtains,
and told him to look at the greensward
beyond. The astonished player did so,
and then DAILY said: 81 had those green
platS put there especially for your BEN
eft. Go out there and play lawn tennis,
but don t fool arOnnd
THE ROULETTE WHEEL.
1t might 60 off and hurt you" Tom
jolly Is business manager of the Penn
sylvania club. He does not belle his
name. He is the jollieSt man one could
wish to see. He is big man, with
broad shoulders and supple limbs.
Bright-eyed and quick-bralned, he de-
cideS on every important question con-
corning the house.
''PhiF' DAILY has done much for Long
Branch, but the Law and Order league
doesn't think so. and the gambler has
fought many battle with the assOcia-
ton. He has been a victor generally.
ana it is quite likely that he will stay at
his club house. Thre are two of them,
and they are named after his two daugh-
tiers. They cost together something
like $4,000, and are furnished in very
sumptuOus style. Although '.PhiP'
Daily is gambler, he is kind father
and a devoted husband. His wife, as
is we'll known, is an earnest
Catholic. In her house at Long
Branch she has chapel. Here
is an inexpensive altar surmounted by
an ivory crucifix, which is said to have
cost small fortune. Mrs. DAILY spends
many hours before it every day during
the summer months, and her husband
never intrudes his ideas on religious
subjects upon her. His daughters are,
truly speaking, the apples of his eyes.
The other day, when he was lying
wounded in the Strathmole apartment
house, he asked one of them where her
mother was. Miss Daily replied tnat she
had gone out to get particular KIND OF
Salve for the wound. She had gone
down Broadway. DAILY was silent for a
few seconds and then said. pleasantly:
"Well, / suppose she will be back in a
little while, unless she happens to run
across church, or something like one,
where she can run in and pray for an
hour or So"
But although the gambler did speak
thus lightly about his wife, his love for
her is unquestioned, and he is the treas
ure-hOuse of all her hopes.