The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-18
A Slick" Lad From Virginia.

Poor BILLY" Mayer, the bookmaker, who
pencils liberal odds against the ponies at Hsw-
thorne these chill November DAYS. is in a dis
consulate mood. Billy stood alone 10 front OF
the Palmer house ore evening last week, and
the careless manner in which his hands we're
thrust into his trousers pockets and the clouded
aspect of his usual ioviai brow very clearly
indicated that something unusual had occurred
20 throw him into an unhappy state OF MIND,
says the Chicago ipHeS.
His boon companion, Eddie Locke. coming up,
remarked TO little al" Fisher that perchauce
Billy had laid mp against some hot thing" that
day, while Az allowed that maybe old Green
Morris mad made "killln wild one Nv his good
uns' ami thereby rutf1ed the genial knight of
the box"
What are you looking so glum about?''
handsome Eddie ventured to inquire.
20. nothing in particular" responded Mayer.
"Only. was thinking how lot of us old suck
ers got done mp by a 19-yesr-old kid last night.
How was iLg We'll, I'll tell you.
He was the sckest kid ever met in my life.
He comes from down in Virginia and is only l9,
but, 0 how smart. That youngster can't be
Taught any new tricks at all, tell you.
Hes been around race tracks for years. and
knows more about horses than we ever villa
sort of second nature with him, suppose; and
more than that, he's one OF the finest sheet
writer's l ever saw. Well, one Of my boys was
sick, and l sent for the kid one day last week
to do some work for me. He came last night.
and wish he hadn't. When he entered my
rooms at the hotel the rest of the party wanted
W AhOn dhaI was SOlhS " w WIN tuAt
green kid
There were four of lis besides the youn gsters
and someone suggested a game of draw at $40
limit. All of US agreed, and the chips we're
produced forthwith.
AT this point the kid wanted TO come In
He showed up wad of bills containing 5000.
perhaps. He hadn much use for the money
he SAID. and if any of US were laundering after
it, why, we were perfectly welcome to it.
We all thought it a name to take his money!
but knew IL we didn't that those $500 would
show up and hit my book next day; and, be-
sides, he might have spent it foolishly.
We'll, the upshot of it was that we allowed
him to buy $50 worth Of chips and the game
was soon in full swing
The kid played his cards close for awhile
and then came a IS jack pot. Everybody came
in, The pot was hoisted twice and was a pretty
good-sized one. l STAYED in on q pair of aces
but didn't better myself on the draw. All OF
us drew two cards except the kid, who stood
pat
well. sir. he just lifted that pot for all it
was worth, and as we had all sized him up for a
flush or straight just laid down He
raked In the pot, containing over $780, and what
DO you think he had in his hand? Queen high !;
that was all.
1--WE were disguised lot, can tell you, when
he showed down his hand.
ut was wintry day for the crowd whom
they ran against that young man, and no mis-
take. He played awful slick game and
when he had QUIT he had increased his original
nearly all of it was my money. too
'Gentlemen,' he said on leaving, 4 learned
to play poker while page down in the Virginia
legislature. If any of you want points on the
game just go down there and you'll be sure to
get them"