The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-12-31
ANENT THE CRAP GAME.
Something About Points, Fields, =
.sevens' and Elevens.'

Something About Points. Fields :
-'sevens'' and Elevens
Speaking OF that crap game, one OF
the boys who was there was approached
by the writer for a little story of how it
all was, and this is the explanation he
got:
I" We had all gathered together and
were spending a most pleasant and
profitable evening, and although there
was fire in the room, we all had the
shakes. Some shook one thing and
some shook another, and some were
badly shaken. In fact, it was kept up
to such an extent that we later came
to realize that it was a case of "Well
shaken before being taken.p
OF course, it is we'll known that we
have so many bones in the hand, but
on this particular evening, at one time
or another, we all had two extra bones.
Those bones contained various dark
spots, which have never been analysed
to the satisfaction of any physician
When the bones were in different posi-
tons, they would show a different
number of spots; sometimes it was
seven, and at other times it would be
eleven. When the bones contained
other spots, they were generally called
points Not blue points, nor the
points of a compass, but just points.
The bones were being rolled quite
lively, going from one PERSONS hand to
another persons, constantly changing
spots like a leopard, and the little man
behind the table was constantly chang
ing change, but no one seemed to be
thinking of the change that was COM
ing to ALL
"Of course, there were all classes of
people there, the high and the low, and
people that played in the field; not a
baseball field, nor a Marshall Field,
but just the field | heard someone
say Two dollars in the field l was
just going out to find that field, when |
heard some one say he would bet a
dollar on the come Just then
there was rap on the door, which was
Immediately opened, and the fellow
who had bet the dollar on the come
won all right, for they come right
in; that is the policemen did. Then
the people all got warm and did not
shake any more. In fact, never saw
such warm crowd. The policemen
said for us all to keep still, and they
began to count. Some one said pay
the line,' so 1 supposed the policemen
had gone out in the field and had found
the two dollars, or perhaps more, and
were going to divide up with the boys
who were I'm line. SO got in line, and
waited and waited, but / did not see
any two dollars, or anything that
looked like money that they we're going
to give us.
:" 1t was very q1oer. They would
count off seven and would write
down their names. Then they would
count seven more Everything seemed
to be going by sevens, while just a
short time before, everything seemed
to be coming by SeVenS. mere were
seven of the blue coats, and they di-
vided the crowd into four groups OF
seven each, making twenty eight in all.
One of the men asked the policemen
what they wanted, and they said they
had brought along an invitation from
Justice Slater, which read as follows:
4 am going to have little gathering
on the neck, and | want you all 20
Gomez There was that word come
again, and l believe the fellow who
had bet the dollar on the come was
onto the racket all the time, bit if be
was, it is very strange to me that when
he knew he was going to win, that he
did not oct 81 on the come so he
would have enough to pay his fine
with " GOLONG.
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