Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-11-15
END OF CRAP GAMES
Superintendent Carr Issues an
Order to Close Them
FARO is PLAYED IN FULL. BLAST
billy smith Asserts Thar He has
Pull With the Police de-
parsment--New Game

Crap shooting IL sinfol game. Tie
police department % the city Of Grand
Rapids has officially disapproved a II.
and yesterday Superintendent Carr
issued an order to the manipulators %
o. crap games 10 close up The pfoprie-
tors will comply.
There are only three places IN thee'ty
where crap tables are maintained. oae
ia At Boxen's. the other az .Doug's" and
the third over I'd Channels saloon on
Monroe street. At Bowen's and
~Doag's" craps IL the only game played.
At the place over Chinnicks. which 10
said 10 be operated by Al Brewer. stud
poker game 10 run.
None Of the other gambling joints Ia
the city have received any notice 20
close and all of them are running with
open doors Guy Johnston Is operating
the game over Latta's. Tie boastea a
few days ago that he bad held up tho
town for seventeen years and was run
ming on his eighteenth With joan.
sson il BILLY Smith. William asserted
90 crowd % sports yesterday that he
had "a pull with the police" and that
"the superintendent did not dare order
any house l arm connected with TO close.
Smith does not claim 20 have any inter
est in Jonston's place. but gives II moral
tone by his support.
The Three Graces-
Mart Boorhem IL boss % the bank and
does the dealing. lie has the justly
earned reputation Of being the cleverest
faro dealer in Grand Rapids Smith.
Johnston and Carter. however assist
him IN the management OF the game
IL was in Johnston's joint that j. q.
Mosser OF Cadillac dropped sl.400 on
the game and was forced 10 skip the
country on account OF his creditors.
Boorhem is said TO have handled the
cards the night Mosser dropped his pile"
The sports in the house claim that the
game is run on the square and that a
brace game In not tolerated. Johnston
asserts that the house has lost money
every night except one for the past
month. That night was last Saturday.
and il IL said the bank quit winner 90.
Under these circumstances the game
seems to be run as an adjunct TO the
Associated Charities society for the pur-
pose OF assisting the deserving poor
whom the society is in danger OF not
reaching Stud poker IL one OF the
leading attractions at Latta's. The
possibilities OF the game are too well
known TO every sport to deserve any
comment. It's a dead cinch.
Guy Johnston has another place over
Trowbridge's saloon on Monroe street.
and the doors Of this, like the gates OF
hell. are open night and day. Joe Dew
ereaux il Guys right.hand man in the
management OF thegames. We frewood
assists him and Sugar Bob" acts as
steerer for the house Both faro and
stud poker are played here. and the
games like those at Latta's. are asserted
to be square in every way.
The game that il run over Chinuick's
by Al Brewer in an Insignificant sort OF
an affair. and is not held 10 high favor
by the other sports Ii Is on the shoe
string order. craps being the principal
thing played. A stud poker game is
running in full blast. however
By the order Of the superintendent,
the crap game will be closed; but specu-
lative persons may still have an oppor-
tunity to burn up their money at the
stud poker tables.
To Open q New Place
The place over Zeke Welch's on Pearl
street will be opened again today or to-
morrow, and il il said that Sugar Bob"
will have charge OF the house. Robert
has variable sort OF reputation. Some
assert that he is the cleverest sport in
the lot. and others maintain that he
doesn't know enough 10 match pennies
Faro aud stud poker will be the games
over Welch's. the same az in the other
gambling houses OF the city. A crap
game was formerly run there; but the
dice cannot be shot any more without
conflicting with the recent order OF the
superintendent. ard Bob has no inten-
ton Of bucking the police.
Ii was said in sporting circles last
night that Billy Smith claimed ell the
credit for the order to stop crap shoot
ing. With the crap games closed. the
faro aud stud poker games will have a
better show. The crap games are open
for quarter: but the faro dealers do
not disdain to receive bets even of this
amount and two bit faro il expected
10 receive a decided boom from the en-
forcement Of Superintendent Cars
order.