, 1892-08-12
ANrE-nELLUrr eAmRLERs.
A Faro Duel for Eighty Thousand
Dollars.

n arc Dutt AOE EAE MY AhohHaAn ~
Dollars.
A writer in the New York Morning Ad
vertiser tells Of two noted gamblers of ante
bellum days, as follows;
In spirit of pure deVilment Cleveland
bantered old Timberlake one August nigh
to faro duel for $4,000.
"Will you take my draft on a Californi,
bank if lose ?" asked the spOrtiYe ranch
man.
Sure, f" said Cleveland, ''for twice tina
sum, old boy, if you say the Word.'
Cleveland had unbOunded faith in hi
lucky star and in himself as a dealer. Re
freshing themselves, for it was midnight il
midsummer, and not long before the war
with a short bottle and a chicken sandwich
Cleveland, who was his own banker, took his
place behind the table, while Tim berlake be
gan playing the deuce open for $4,000
Each yellow fish, or chip, represented
1000, and the ranchman started off nim-
bly, and in grand spirits with eight stacks
OF ten yellow chips each. his entire gam
ing capital was before him and his draft
on Ralston's California bank was in the
drawer
Cleveland was in magnificent spirits,
and 1t was graVer and more distinguished
party than has since assembled at any faro
bank beside the sea or elsewhere on this
tors and congressman sat in the atmos-
phere of smoke and of fragrant mint, de-
lighted spectators at a phenomenal game,
with 100000 as stakes. Both were nerVy
men and played with desperate intent.
Occasionally the New Mexican cattle king
would make wild pldnge with $4,000 in
yellow chips before him and call the turn
for $4,000. But the old pleasant call
didn't come as he called it, and old Tim
berlake began to get white about the gills
at the end of the fifth deal, for he had re-
naming only one solitary stack of ten yel-
low chips-S10000. Evidently it was not
Undertakes lucky night. Rising up and
shaking himself like tired lion, he broke
out: ON my eyes, Harry, if 1 don't
want to make this stake $780, 900 more"
"'Not by d-n sight, said Cleveland.
Our limit is $50, 900, so let it stay.
THAT reused the New Mexican's ire and
with an oath he swore to knock Dealer
Cleveland out if it took forty-eight hours
to do 1t. Luck turned on the sixth deal,
and the old cattle king raked in $4,000 in
ivory chips on $1,000 call-tray, queen.
1t was CleVeland's time to look serious as
Undertakes pile lOomed upward, and
$4,000 fish repOsed where less than S., ,0O0
could be seen a moment before.
"At broad daylight not a soul had left
the gaming table, and, after a champagne
cocktail all around, TimberIake, growing
tired and desperate, struck fortune at its
flood, in a coup d'etat. Five cards were in
the silver box. The call was king, queen,
ace. Ten thousand in fish the old man
coppered on the king; $4,50O on the queen /;
$500 on the ace and $1,000 coppered on the
high card and he called it with $4,000 worth
of chips-king, queen.
The room was still as death till New
Mexico gave wild COmanche yell as the
call turn came-king, queen. Timberlake
picked up $40 900 on the king, $1,000 on the
the queen (the ace did not show up), $10,-
600 on the high card and $4,000 on the call
king, queen. Tlmberlake was $4,000 to
the good the call paying for.
Il have seen John MOrrissey, Ben Wood
Charley Ransom, The Walton, the Phila-
delphia plunger and George Lorillard play,
but never saw as nervy bet as the $21,-
500 of old Timberlake on a single call turn
with only the king, queen and ace in the
box"