The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-26

which Dave Ash, OF Mobile, Won
$50. 900 and a Wife For His SON.
How Tom Leigh PrOhtcd S2.6n0
From n Capital of, $3.50 in New
York Game.
From the New York Sun.
ct was very much interested in that
story that was published the other day
about the game of draw poker that Henry
Clay played In" said the gray-haired
young-looking man, "and especially so, as
the date of the game was given explicitly
as 1913. That particilar game was played
at least dozen years before draw poker
had been evolved from the old original
game of poker.
They did not play poker as long ago as
As, but it was straight poker with no draw
You bet on the first five cards you re-
ceived in the deal without getting any
more. and you made the bet very often
without looking at them yourself where
for the game was appropriately called
bluff" as often as it was called poker
Moreover, the stakes We're often very
high, so that the $S5bsj Which, ar Clay is
said to have lost betting again four kings
and an ace was not an unprecedented wa
ger. Ben Ash of Mobile saw a game in
that same year. in which the. stakes were
much higher. over $4,000 changed hands
in one pot, and even that, he declared,
was only small part of the real wager
that was made, won and lost
Ben was youngster then but was old
enough to have won the affection of
charming young girl who was the daugh-
He was exceedinoIv anxinus ia marry her
and she was ready fbut there was a for
r,ida HE obstacle in +be way 9 The natter
,al a, Auzicn,, tboueb l,,,.,, In the JTnited
states vas Tho scion of an aristocratic
FAMILY in E,rance and had retained ali the
nrilo Of caste maj helonged IA his ances.
Tors while Ash tbough a worthy voung
foIIov- oro,,ob win a fair social stand
iner tvas tb,e so, Of nave Ash the veteran
80, +,i-oI ,,,a,0a-o. of NTobi1o Who ,,-as a
Enthusiastically Quake, IN, birtb
an d,k,,bionIy 1,,as a friend o,6 Dave and
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