The sun., 1897-04-06
GAMBLERS EYE ON CAIRO.
PAT sHEEDF SAYS IRIS A SPORTING
PARADISE.


| Ing TO Start second Monte Carlo There.
but Fears That Johnny Hull Won't Let Him.
| Pat Sheedy, the famous gambler, whose record
| ms breaker OF faro banks is second to none In
| this or any other country. returned from Europe
on Sunday. Yesterday Sheedy turned up on
| Broadway looking stoutor, stronger aud more
like clergyman than ever. Five months ago
| he went to Egypt TO see what could be done In
the way OF establishing n second Monte Carlo at
| Cairo. Two previous trips on the same mission
had been without very promising results. but tho
people behind Sheedy were SO anxious to get
| some OF the money that annually focks TO Cairo,
| that they asked him to take another look over
| the ground. Yesterday Shoedy announced that
there was no more chance of establishing public
| gambling house in Egypt than there was of
| opening one on Broadway.
"As long as Monte Carlo stands" he said, It
| will bo alone in tho field. It will never have an
| important rival and when 1t passes away
doubt II there will be anything of the kind to
take its place. Wherever there is British DOM
ination there cannot be open gambling. In
Egypt English power only bars the way. Every
| thing else is ripe. There is money unlimited,
facilities unlike those afforded anywhere olse in
the world, and the gambling spirit to greater
| degree than hnvo ever seen 1t. But the English
| will not stand for the pampering Of the appe-
| tites that yearly come to Cairo.
"In the clubs they play a great deal in fact
| doubt II there is any place whcro thero is moro
gambling than in Egypt, but it is behind closed
| doors. You can get oil tho play you want, but
there is no chance for such an establishment as
| the one VIC proposed. They arc all hawks and no
chickens there, nnd the mnn who salies forth in
search OF soft marks Is doomed to swift and GER
tain disappointment.
During the five months have been away I
have been studying the gambling question all
over Europe. have had my reasons for doing
this, and to-day am conversant with the big
establishments Of Europe as am with those in
this country. should say those that were in
this country. for gambling has been done away
with here and is getting harder knocks every
day. have been TO Franco. Germany, Austria,
Hungary. England, India. and Egypt this
last trip, and have done more or less gambling
all along the line. But Egypt has been my goal
all the time.
81 am interested in that country. 1t Is place
of great promise in the sporting line Such a
crowd as finds its way TO Cairo annually one
cannot see anywhere else in the world unless it
is at Monte Carlo. There arc Greeks, Russians,
Indian merchants, American and English tour
lists, Frcnchmen Germans, men from all coun-
tries wearing their native garb, and ready for
anything that promises excitement. They are
loaded with money. and hot to risk 1t across a
table.
Such gamblers you never saw In your life!
They will take risks that would set an American
to rubbing his eyes TO make sure he saw Alright
Anything that's square satisfies them. and I've
seen some remarkable performances in the way
Of bucking UP against hopeless odds.
"The Russians are the most desperate gam
blers that come to Cairo, the Greeks the shrewd-
est. The Russians bet the biggest money al
though some OF the wealthy Turks are as daring
heard man say once that the Greeks were the
smartest fellows in the world. l thought that
rather broad assertion at the time, but I'd be-
lieve anything of them now Certainly they are
with most of these fellows is that they don't
know how to gamble.
game is like marbles against billiards COM
pared with the gambling OF Europeans. They
sums OF money. tell you that beside these feI.
lows I'm just an ordinary cheap piker. My win
bier would b totally obscured by the chances
that many Of the smallest of these big fellows
Il spoke a moment ago about the big odds
some OF them iI, viii go up against @ Let me give
father OF Count Castellanc. who married Anna
Gould. play baccarat until he had roll of money
his trousers pocket and started to go out. He
had just reached the door when three men who
bnsw bns an4ous n o pny % They saw
hand iS them A e. 500 apiece and II then star, to deal
the cards for them himself. The old gentleman
actually put the balance of his money against
that which he had loaned his friends. They
were three to one. Castellanc broke one of the
richer together by some s44. 900. Where in ali
veins tho gambling blood flowed as swiftly as
that snon n,.n .. nj. oono ,n nnn,,or. 20 r.,n,
every season. They play only in the clubs, and
baccarat is the principal game. II s difficult to
get them TO play anything else. Roulette is very
SnnlEinR wheel
reminds me of the way made u fellows ever
snE ps1 cT9 onv Thsy
time TO drum i into this mans head that
him He finally sent TO Monte @ Carlo for the
players in Cairo around his table nightly.
ti;n lts too bad bad that that great fair r. and square
would be great thing for the country. There |
are hundreds of American gamblers there. but |
lost lost as the rest. Yet in this country everybody
looks on me as a stiff player.
he m6 6n6onic ttp plague @ has hurt things this
keep things humminR, though. although the
AS to things in New York, from gamblers |
point t Of VIEW they certainly y @re not promising
why the gambler should be suppressed while the |
stock and grain spoculator and the insurance
brain cannot penetrate. do not think the gam !
blcrs have much to hope from return OF Tam |
many Hall to power. 1t Is mistake TO think |
that Tammany was good to the gamblers. |
Tho Republicans have always been most liberal |
to them; Undoubtedly there is gambling going |
way that is OF the slightest use to nybody In |
order to make gambling at faro a successful |
business II must be conducted openly, so that |
the business man may come and go as he plcases |
without the constant fear that the police arc |
going to drop In and lug him off for u night in |
the station house.
"As things are now, 1t is case OF few games |
running in which gambler is pitted against gam |
bier. That will never do. OF course. Now, why |
do the yirtnous and righteous rise up against tho
card gambler I They have driven him ont OF |
New York and ruined his business. and why ! |
They say that the gamblers pluck tho rich and |
steaiings. Let US see Il that is SO. Can You |
toll me professional gambler to-day. / don't |
care who he is. who has got any money You |
Tho hest the gamblers have ever done has been |
TO make living out OF gaming Who own all |
the houses. he rows OF stores. tho street rail |
roads DO the gamblers Not much II is tho |