The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-27
TOOK IN A YALE PROFESSOR.
Gard Sharpers Make a Few Dollars
Out of His Innocence.
From the New Haven Evening Register.

From the New Haven Evening Register.
A good story is going the rounds of the
city with relation to a certain well-known
Yale professor. He is young man, and
the title of professor has rested upon him
but few years, but his name is withheld
for obvious reasons.
On returning from the worlds fair re-
Gently, so goes the story, he was APP
preached on the train by Incorporating
man, who asked him If he would not fill
up hand of whist, as it needed just one
more to complete the table. The Yale
| professor complied, and was soon 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 tho ulual
number, and in this exigency it was SIp-
| gested that as whist could not be played
| they had better resort to euchre. This
was satisfactory and the game COM
menced.
1t had proceeded but a short time when
| one of the gentlemen, after looking at his
hand, remarked that he wished he was
| playing poker, as he had hand that he
| would like to bet on, So, just for the fun
| of the thing, the first speaker suggested
that they drop euchre for minute and
play poker with the hands they held
| This was acceded to, and a small amount
of money was bet, which finally went
| lltO bllt uISb SpCdhtI MANU-. I1uGIiEt WAS
| resumed, and IL had progressed but a
short time before the third stranger, who
had not entered into the first deal said
he had hand which he would like to bet
| on, and, as the gentleman who had made
the first suggestion was agreeable, the
game was again stopped and they bet
| money on their hands.
After this euchre was resumed, when,
| to the professors surprise, he found as he
| riNlYaH hand that ha hold fhppa
| aces and pair or, in poker parlance, a
| full house. He laughingly remarked that
| he had got hand which he would be
| willing to wager little money on. His
partner said he had good hand also, and,
| if the professor desired, the game would
| be stopped, and they would play the game
! out on poker lines This was agreeable
| to the professor, and the two fell to bet
| ting. The bets were small, but it was
| Onlya few minutes when the amount
wagered was about $12, of which half was
| the money of the professor. At this point
| the professor called and was astOnished
! to see his partner, against whom he had
| played, lay down four seven spots. OF
course he lost, but without saying a word
| the euchre game was resumed.
After several more hands had been
played the professor picked up hand to
find that he held four aces. This time he
said nothing about playing it a poker
hand and the game of euchre was unin-
terrupted. A little later and four ten
spots also came into his hand, but this
also did not tempt him to try his luck
with it at poker, and it was played out as
euchre.
Very soon after this his companions
! became suddenly tired Of the game, and
! by mutual consent the four quit playing
the Yale professor returning TO his own
seat. AS he began to think over the in
cidents of the previous half hour, it sud
denly dawned on him all at once that he
came near being taken in as a lamb by
three sharpers. AS he remembered it
then, the men did not cut the cards, and
there dawned upon his mind other little
discrepancies with regard to card play
ing which had not attracted his attention
at the time, and he came to the conclusion
very quickly that the hand he had bet on
had been put up against him, and, fur
! thermore, that the four aces and four
tens, which came into his hand subse-
| 1,uently, was not a mere coincidence, but a
deliberate attempt to draw him on into
| losing his money. 1t was not through
any suspicion at the time that he did not
play these hands in poker, but simply be-
cause he was disinclined to break up the
| euchre game in that manner.
Since the story has got noised about the
| professor has received considerable chaf
at the hands of his friends, and he is now
! trying to ascertain how it got out. He is
satisfied, however, that he got out of it
so easily.