The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-13
Celebrated Game.

Perhaps the most celebrated poker
game that IS known to the scientific rec
ords Of Chicago" said the old newspaper
man 10 the Chicago Times Herald, took
pace IN the night police reporters room
IN the city hall II is possible hands have
Desn packed with more money than went
Denin1 these. but even that = a matter
OF some doubt It is certain tnaI no po-
ker proposition ever presented on the top
OF table round or square had so many
persons financially interested in the re-
suit as this.
The game, which started at midnight.
was the regular daily or nightly session.
II was light affair as il was well along
toward the end OF the week il was one
q these 10 cents on the dollar wrenches-
u sounds big while you're 10 it, but al
the cashing IN the 80 per cent. discount
makes the winnings very inCousiderable.
me game opened sieeplly, every body was
weary and tired, and had not that DELI
cate sixth sense which might have noti-
ned MN ne was assisting at the prelim-
mares OF history making. The affair
mad progressed PERHAPS two hours with
me usual luck in the short limit. show
Town game No one was a dollar better
OF worse on than when the cards were
nIst shuftled. 1t was about ? O'clock as
was telling you, when a quiet gooG
man, Two seats above the dealer said:
mink I'm justified in raising the
stay He said il without excitement and
Pohtely, Just as 1 say il, and gave evil
Iehee OF his belief in the integrity OF
MS hand by putting up a red chip in ad-
diton TO his ante. The next two men. re-
SdrulnS his action a a bold attempt TO
wrong them out of their money stayed
ne next man skinned his cards over again
70 assure himself that what he saw was
no optical illusion and tilted the ante to
the extent OF another red chip. One other
man stayed, and the play was up 10 the
frst man who raised He duplicated his
former effort and again raised the come
N, FercelVing that ii was a case of blood
tnlrstiness and no blum, the intermediate
payers went to the discard and the GOOD
strong man with Whiskers once more tilt
ed the situation
To identity the holders in these remark
aole hands might as well designate the
second man TO raise the stay as Babcock
Inat Is not his name, but as he is married
10" ana mas children. he would prefer
an allas Inc other man was Abe Bick-
nam. NO harm is done by giving his name
LOT ne Is editing paper in Ohio. and no
Iurther i'll can come to him. These two
men sawed away at each other shagneless-
~ until one was forced by public opinion
70 make good, and turn 10 the dealer
Shueis Iand that all this was prior to the
Draw: The polite dealer had contracted
lhclplent paralysis holding out the pack
70 1eip the students in science to more
Neither wished any.
~ General interest was aroused at once.
Inc inter Ocean reporter came out of a
exact location of the box whence the All
alarm came. He was chlorofOrmed and
me oetting began. When the proprietors
" the ndndS had exhausted their capacity
uhe either enthusiasts who had become
partisans Of whichever hand they first
saw, invested at once. The desk sergeant.
me lieutenant in charge of the precinct,
ana the turnkey came, looked and were
ioSt. All the money they had went in
a committee was appointed TO appraise
chattels, and one man opened a set of ac-
counts showing the various interests in
vowed and the nature of the same. The
taDe was piled with watches. rings and
plstols-anyth that had a commercial
value When the men at the city hall
tppul4 Put up no more scouts representing
the hands in issue went out into the night
10 invoke aid. 1t is a safe assertion that
every restaurant keeper and druggist in
radius of a half mile had money up on
one of the hands or the other.
Every person in the central patrol dis
trict who was awake and able to discrim-
mate had put in his investment, As the
patrOlmen came in from their beats and
heard the story, they took sides, and the
detail, although 1t stood as a stone wall
at the Haymarket and fought as one man
| IN the Black road, split out and was di-
vided against itself on these rarely meri-
| torious collections of cards
At 80 in the morning, four and one-half
| hours after they were dealt the cards
were taken from beneath the hats, where
withdrawn for inspection There wasn't
| another dollar downtown on a watch that
would 60 to be put uD.
Babcock showed a straight club flush
| with o. jack ct the head He reached for
| the plumber. Softly objected Bickham
also moving for the center of the table and
| throwing his cards down, faces up.
His flush was also straight, with the
queen of spades high. 1t took an arbitra-
ton committee three days TO adjust the
property rights of those in on the winning
| hand. There was $500 in currency and
| nearly 81, 800 in chattel property to be adj
miniStered upon. Babcock swore a dark
| oath never to play poker again. 1t was full
| ly six weeks before ne sat in another
game"