Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-13
TOOK IN A YALE PROFESSOR.
Card shaTpars Make Few Dollars Out of
an Innocent Teacher.

Card shaTpars Make a Few Dollars Out Of
an Innocent Teacher.
A good story ia ColDg the rounds OF the
city with relation 70 = certain we'll known
Yale professor. Eo "a a young man, and
the title Of professor has rested upon him
but a lev Year,, but his name Is withheld
fer obvious reS.oua.
On returning from Chicago recently, 90
goes the story, he was approached on the
train by dne appearing man, who asked
him II he would not OIL up hand ofwhist,
~ II needed Just one more TO complete tho
table. The Yale professor complied and was
soou sitting with three nicely dressed and
apparently thorough gentlemen. The cards
were dealt around, when it was discovered
that there was one card less than the usual
number, and In thia axigeuey IT was sug-
gested that ~ whist could not be- played
they bad better res0rt Ia suchre This was
satisfactory, and the game commenced
It had proceeded but a short time when
one Of the gentlemen, after looking At his
hand, remarked that he wished he wa
playing poker. rs ho had q band that no
would Ike TO bet on. 60. Just for tho fun
ot the thing tue Nrst speaker suggested
that they drop ugchre Tor minute and
play poker with the bands they held. This
was accsded TO, and n small amount Of
money WINS bet, which lnglly went into ths
first speakers hand Euchre was resumed,
and IL Ind progressed but a short time DO
fore the third stranger, who bad not en-
tered into the lrlt deal said no had Il hand
which he would Ike 10 bet on aud rs the
gentleman who had made Tho drst suggcs-
tlon was agreeable the game was again
stopped and they bet money on their hands
After this euchre WINS resumed, when, to
the professors surprise, be found as he
picked up one hand that hc held three ace5
aud pair, or in poker parlancc, a fun
house. He laughingly remarked that ha
had got hand which he would be willing
70 wager little money on. His partner
said he had q good baud also, and II tho
professor desired the game would be
stopped, and they would play the game out
on poker linea. This wac agreeable TO the
professor, and thstwo fell to betting. The
bets were small, but It WAS only few min.
utos when the amount wggercd was about
el2, Of which half WAS the money of the
professor AZ thia point tho professor
enlled and WAS nstoniahed 70 see his part.
ner, against whom he had played. lay down
four seven spots OF caursu he Lost, but
without saying q word the euehre game
was resumed.
After several more hands bad been played
the professor picked mp hand to tnd that
he held four aces, This time he said moth
ing about playing il poker hand, and the
gone OF euchre WAS uninterrupted. A lit
Ito later and four 10 Epots also came into
his hand, but this did not tempt him 10 try
his luck with IL at poker, and IL was played
out as euchrc.
Very soon after this his companions DO
came suddtdly tired Of the game, aud by
mutual eonseut the four Quit playing, ths
Yale professor returning To his own seat.
As he began to think over the incidents OF
the previous half hour, II suddenly dawned
on him all az once that he came near being
taken In as q lamb by three sharpers. A
he remembered 1t then the men did not
cut the cards, and there dawned upon hii
mind other litale discrepancies with regaul
10 card playing which had not attracted
his attention at that time, and he came Ia
the conclusion very quickly that the hand
which he had let ON had been put uu
against him, aud. Furthermore. that the
| four aces and four tens which came into
his hands subsequently was not mere Co
incidence, but deliberate attempt TO draw
him into losing HIS money. II was not
through any suspicion at tho time that b
did not play these hands In poker, bat
simply because he was didnellned TO brea.
up the euehre game In tha, manner.
Since the story has got nosed about, the
professor has received considerable char
at the hands of bis friends, and be Is now
trying TO ascertain how IL got out He d.
satisfied, however, that he got out Of Il 80
eAsily.-New Haven Register.