San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-25


Boston Globe.
Have you played the new game
called "crap shooting?
Kentucky horse jockeys brought 1t
to this city few years ago, and it
has grown in popularity ever since.
Now you can find devotees in many
club houses, and over at the univer-
sity it is used to while away many an
hour.
1t was first played by the roust-
abouts along the levees in New Or
leans. The great river steam boats
carried is along the Mississippi, and
it was fully developed as a gambling
pastime by the sporting fraternity OF
Kentucky. The sports of the State
feel that it came to them at a very
opportune time. The Legislature had
Just made it both difficult and punish
able for players in faro, keno and
poker. The Kentucky legislators
never thought that that the gambling
methods of New Orleans rOustabouts
would ever find place upon the
green cloth for gentlemen, and so
tailed to "legislate against it,"
Crap" being beyond law, grew rap
idly in popularity, and is now gener-
ally played.
IL was at one time called "Ooutz,"
so named from the pig-like cry of the
player as he throws the dice 1t is
by this name that the game is known
throughout the west. 1t is a game
easy to learn, and by it you can lose
your money as Veniently and as
rapidly as you may desire. You may
play for cent and upward, neither
the amount of money staked or the
number of players permitted being
limited. The necessary clay out" for
the game consists of pair of ivory
cubes, called dice, upon each of the
sides of which are black dots running
from one to six. Each player deposits
with the shareholders a given sum,
the limit in some places being 81 to
each player.
Again, some "gamekeepers" per-
NIT players to throw" the dice for
position; the player making the high
est number secures the first throw.
The first player takes the two dice in
his hands, and, after shaking them,
spills them out upon the table. II
the dice "COme sevenn or "come
eleven" that is, if the sum of dots on
the upper face Of the dice count the
thrower seven or eleven, he takes the
stake, less 5, 10 or Is per cent, which
goes to the gamekeeper. This player
is again entitled to the first throw, a
new pot being contributed to by all
the players, and he holds the first
throw until he fails to cast seven
or eleven. If upon the first throw
he fails to cast the numbers
seven or eleven he is entitled to throw
again, the number of his first throw
being his point, and he continues
shooting until he throws that point,
which entities him to the pot, or I'M
til he throws the number seven,
when he loses, and the throw passes
to the next player on the left. For
instance, if falling on the first cast to
throw seven or eleven, the player
turns six, he shoots again, and so on
until six is made, when he wins, or
until the result is seven, and he must
contribute, if he stays in the game,
to every pot until the throw returns
to him. Frequently the throw passes
round several times, and the stake
swells with every round.
A rather funny vocabulary has been
originated by the games. The num-
bers made by the dice are known by
the following names:
Six. Jimmie HE |
Ten. Observation-Disclosures. Big Dick |
Nine. ................... Ninety days
Ace ..................Cr Crap |
Deuce. ......... ........ Big Bess |
Tray .................. Devil sucker |
The ace is considered very lucky, |
the tray very unlucky. The mean |
ing of expressions used by the play
ers seems very odd:
Shot his IOad' means the player |
has lost his last cent.
Pm hOt"-in luck or winning.
"I've got YOU fadedn-player's |
money covered by another.
Il amt passin' don't be scared.
"Rnn through me like a sieve"-
player has lost every time.
II shoot in a dime"-deposit that
amount.
II come for you'll want to play.
Uncle Sans money has been re-
named, as follows;
Cent. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. A brown |
Five cents. ......................A pick
quarter. Two bits |
Dollar. .................. Eight bits
Two dollars ..................A shoot |
In Boston the game is played open
ly. NewsbOys delight in it. Pedes-
TRANS on Cambridge street readily
understand when they see unem-
plOyed youths in a doorway all at
tentiOn while two dice are being |
thrown.
PIMPLES ON THE FACE
Denote an impure state of the blood and are |