The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-03-28
ONE GAMBLERS LUCK.


were standing in Wizards lobby last
night when a tall, soldierly looking
man, with white hair and snowy mus.
tache and imperial, strobe in and ad-
vanced 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 knowin'. Thirty years ago
there wasn't higher roller in the
South. His people had died out one
by one until only sister was left
and Jack and her had loads of money
and lots of negroes. She got religion
the worst way, and all Of sudden
went into a convent.
''As I said, Jack was a high roller
but he'd kept within bounds up to
that time. When the girl left the
world, as they call it, Jack was crazy
He was devoted to her, in spite of his
runnin' around, and he just cut loose
and raised fog. He played the limit
and it wasn't long before the brace
players had layouts fixed for him in
every town he struck. His money
went, and his negroes, too, and the
time came when he didn't have the
price of a shoestring. He drifted up
to Memphis one night, broke and des-
perate. He went into a farrar bank
and watched the game for awhile, but
he didn't get nod, where not long
before the negroes used to break their
necks to shove a chair up right in
front of the layout for him.
.'Old man Galloway had a fever
streak on him that night, and was
playin' blues at a hundred stack
Jack sat down near him and seemed
to Illustrate the old man, because he
bet 10 chips on double seven and got
split. He was madder'n a hornet, but
he laughed just the same and said to
Jack, as he handed over the split
check to him:
"I reckon you wanted stake and
made me bet odd chips. See what
you can do with that
"Jack grabbed the two and a half
like a hungry man catchin' bun,
and shot it into the square. The king
won on the turn. Then the duce won
twice. Jack let the 500 lay; the deuce
won again; then the king won twice,
and then the deuce won again. Neither
the queen nor ace had showed, but
the $500 in blue chips were still un-
touched. The dealer thought he had
a cinch and never spoke about the
5000 limit. The queen won on the
turn.
"'Draw down to 2OO,' said the deal
er, and Jack took $40 away. Well,
the last king and all the queens and
aces won, and Jack had 200 on every
one. He kept on playing and turned
the box down and carried off the $1,000
bank roll with him along about day
break He got the blue split he had
started on 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 100000 in five
weeks. Then he went on a bank
breaking trip up the river, and he
reached st. Louis in the spring of
go worth 100000 in solid cash. He
was coming out of a farrer bank the
day after he got there, when little
woman came up to him.
Jack she said, gimme that thing
you've got ON your watch chain and
hang this instead and she held out
a little medal Jack saw it was his
sister. He broke the blue split off and
took the medal and put it on. There
were twenty crooked games fixed for
him at ST. Louis, but he never played
farrer again. He wears that little
medal yet"
When Doty came out a few minutes
later a dozen pair of eyes searched
his vest. Dangling from the heavy
gold chain that crossed it was the
little medaI,-WaShingto Star.