Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-05-30
a GAMBLERS LUCK.
Chips Tossed to Him Out OF Pity Put Him
on the Road TO Fortune.

Chips Tossed to Him Out OF Pity Put Him
the Road to Fortune.
A party Of horse racing followers
were standing in Wizards lobby when
tall, soldierly looking man with white
hair and snowy mustache and imperial
strobe i'll and advanced To the clerks
desk.
"See that feller?" said one of the
elderly men in the group That's
Lucky Jack Doty. Never hear Of him?
Well, he's got story that is worth
KNOWN. Thirty years ago there wasn't
a higher roller in the south. His people
had died out one by one till only sis
ter was left, and Jack and her had
loads of money and lots of negroes, She
got religion the worst way and all of a
sudden went into a convent
''As / said, Jack was a high roller,
but he'd kept within bounds up to that
time. When the girl had left the
world, as they call it, Jack was crazy.
He was devoted to her, III spite of his
runnin around, and he just cut loose
and raised a fog lie played the limit,
and it wasn't long before the brace
players had layouts fixed for him i'll
every town he struck. Hi money went
and his negroes, too, and the time came
when he didn't have the price of
shoestring. He drifted up to Memphis
one night broke and desperate. He
went into farrer bank and watched
the game for awhile, but he didn't get
a nod where not long before the negroes
used to break their necks to shove a
chair right in front OF the layout for
him.
cold man Galloway had farrer
streak on him that night and was playin
blues at hundred stack. Jack sat
down near him and seemed to Illustrate
the old man, because he bet 10 chips
OH n double seven and got split. He
was madder'n hornet, but he laughed
just the same and said to Jack as he
handed over the split check to him:
i reckon you want stake and
made me bet odd chips See what you
can do with that.
"Jack grabbed the So, 80 like hun
CRY man catchin a bun and shot it into
the square. The king won ON the turn.
Then the deuce won twice. Jack let the
$40 lay. The deuce won again Then
the king won twice. and then the deuce
won again. Neither the queen or ace
had showed, but the $500 III blue chips
were still untouched The dealer
thought he had cinch and never
spoke about the 5000 limit The queen
won on the turn.
9 Draw down to 5000, said the
dealer, and Jack took $40 away, Well,
the last king and all the queens and
aces won, and Jack had $500 on every
one He kept on playin and turned the
box down and carried off the So, 600
bank roll with him about daybreak. He
got the blue split he had started OH and
had hole bored in it and put it on the
chain of the watch he bought next day.
He went to New Orleans and won $780,
600 in five weeks. Then he went on a
bank hreakin trip up the river, and he
reached st. Louis in the spring of 1869
worth 5000, 600 in solid cash. He was
comm out of a farrer bank the day
after he got there when little woman
dressed like sister came up to him.
!" Jack, she said, gimme tnat thing
you've got on your watch chain and
hang this there instead, and she held
out little medal He broke the blue
split off and took the medal and put it
ON. There were 20 crooked games fixed
for him i'll St. Louis, but he never
played against farrer again. He wears
that little medal yeti"
When Doty came out a few minutes
later, half dozen pair Of eyes searched
his vest Dangling from the heavy gold
chain that crossed it was the little
medal w Washington Star