The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-20
IN The TIGERS Lair
4 Gambler Rests his Arms on the
Green Cloth for Thirteen Hours.
His Chair at the Table Costs Him
Something Like Fourteen
Hundred Dollars an Hour
A Very High Roller.

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to the extent of $4,000, was noised
about I'm the inner circles of the betting
ring Mt Monmouth Tuesday, says a a New
York dispatch to the Denver Ne,rs. Satur-
day last was a royal day for betting. Fa-
voritc after favorite was bowled over with
amazing regularity. and money flowed in
great streams into their boxes. They re-
GREETED when the seventh n had been
run that the golden opportunities of the
day had ended, AID they sighed for fur
ther conqests. Finally one OF the most
daring of the pencillers, Pearsall, who is
known on every race track In the country
as "Eole." proposed that a party should
be made up and that the night be spent
in the, to them, laudable ambition Of
breaking Phil Days Pennsylvania club
at Long Branch.
"Eole,' Barney Michaels and Charlie
Davis. the plunger, constituted n commit
tee Of three and organized a party and
vent to Long Branch. After dinner they
sauntered about for an hour, and then
they went through the gates and up the
brilliantly lighted path that leads TO the
most magnificently equipped gambling
hell on the continent. Davis was greeted
warmly, as was the Others, except "Eole."
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game in Philadelphia, and, while no
words passed between them, Eole's ex-
preston when he arose was n fair reflex
of the opinion his soul entertained Of
Days personally. They were
the kind, however, that the club delighted
to cntertain-high rollers with plenty OF
money
All chose faro and 1901 the sashed and
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small canes at the roulette wheels, stood
about and looked at the hundreds that
were gliding to and fro over the table in
the ivory coin of the gamblers.
OF the number all had fair luck save
Eole. He was beginning To lose heavily,
though ~stoically, when he suggested the
raising of the limit. Dealer Ahearne, the
g~ray-haired expert, was not anxious 10 do
as he desired. The rules of the house, he
admitted. could be relaxed, but il was en-
tirely at the option of the house.
There was a few questions asked in a
quiet way, answered just as quietly, but
not satisfactorily to the bookies. and they
arose, cashed i'm what chips were before
them, lighted their cigars and passed out.
Etiquette prevented their saying a word
until they were out on the avenue, when
there was some free expressions of opin-
ion given. A comparison OF notes SHOWED
that the entertainment up To that hour
had cost them close TO $1,000. II was
steep. but they were in for il, and in their
abiding faith that "a sucker is born every
minute" and that every sucker will play
the races, they rocked not of their NOR
row. Their losses were only a trifie.
Finally Barney Michael assured them
the re- was nc need of their going to hotel
and dreaming their life away. He re-
minded them that a brother bookmaker,
Il..IIa.l r.. IN ON. nnlar aha na..,. .F
the Ocean club, and that his money was
just as good as anybody else's. II was
nearing midnight when they decided to
step over there. One of the number sug-
gested that as Sunday was near AT hand
Billiard might close the game, but
Michael laughed a weary laugh and re-
marked that the day that brought the
most honey 10 Ocean club was marked
down as Sunday, and that no tally was
kept Of any other day. On the way Davis
told a story of how George Hawkins, the
Chicago gambler, had on two occasions
broken the ban of a man in the west
who il now an active horseinan an the
Metropolitan tracks.
Billiards. was reached nj length and the
party were greeted as a set Of prodigal
sons. The best in the house In the way OF
eating n drinking was given them u
two rooms were cleared for an all night
session. The game began at II As p. m.
and il finished only when la bookios rose
upon Sunday night, exhausted physically
and lighter in pocket by between S27, 600
and SIS, 600 than when they entered. Eole,
the heaviest loser individually, played the
largest game. He had a phenomenal run
of luck at il for over three hours.
Chips whose value was raised 10 $500 lay
stacked beside him and he was not less
than $4,000 ahead when the dawn broke.
With the Others luck had been varying.
Refreshments were served 10 some and
they took a nan and ther a bath and came
back again. AT noon they were still at
the ganc and al . o'cIock D,vis c,shod i'm
his chins. his nocket hook nj the close
Looking considerably more emaciated
than when he began. Michaels was the
only one who had not until then PLAYED
heavily. He was sleeping but was awoke
aud vents al the game with disastrous re-