The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-21
RED SHIRTS CARD TRICKS.
AN OLD-TIME sHARPER's RAIL
ROID WAYS dND MEANS.
Kelley Was His Name and he Was Among
tho First 10 Play Upon Overcon ndent
Fellow Travellers How Hts Euchre
Hand. RrouGht On Poker Gnme..

nj Mama Mas
tho first 10 Play Upor overoon ndent
Fellow Travellers - How Hts Euchre
Hands brought On Poker Games.
Among the old-time travelling card sharps
that knew" said a veteran railroad cond Il otor,
was Red Shirt This slick rascal's name was
Kelley, and he was a product of life In the Penn
sylyani. coal. mining districts. He was an ex-
merit three.card-monto manipulator and mar
y.llouslv skilful at tricks with cards. lie was
the originator OF many OF the card sharper tricks
that are doing duty to this day In the hands Of
s"e p'o' ino ~ " -
In cards that originated with MIN, made MIN
and his Imitators thousands OF dollars shall
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artist that | con fess had to ad ruire him.
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eller bored all but to death with the monotony
Of riding on n railroad, In those days the news
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his lap board to play on, had not yet madc his
appearance on our railroads, aud card PLAYING
10 pass tne '',he AWAY WIS Nv" .n'us' n'u
Shirt-ahd why he was called Ked SHIRT never
knew-r,ight easily have been taken for the
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dened with both time and money. He always
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less game An infallIblc Judge of human ma.
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ture' ho heNe. isieu W He'ee' p'"Scrs SUITE" 10
his purpose. Their social game had rarely pro
crossed far before Red shirt, in n careless. OF
h,,d ,,oy che ,,i,, q. ,iJ aud ,h,,.dhor.,o,,
manu- way Vhe th'hg u o'u an" lht'auoare hoW'
but II was new them, and speaking apparently
,uor. "a hi.narlf than IN anv nne .l.e ,yonld any,
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ihls Wo"'u w o'"u.y VI manu- !" "kau'o
OF BLUM. declare 1t would"
"poker was almost universally called blufY in
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'hoeeu eN "heh hru Shrt hHh come l" the
Stage in his little scheme when he made that
remark, IL would have been safe bet for any
one to make that he wasn't the only one In
the game who held q hand that would be a
htaIty In u game OF blum, and that the other
hand never failed to b. four aces, cold and bat.
And well did this graceful sharper Judge his
men that the one " ho held those aces never faed
to lie Que who knew their poker value. and had
gam" enough IN his makeup to remark that his
avn hand showed up pretty fair Itself for tho
nahing ot a nice poker hand. The skill OF Red
shirt became now that of the finished artist that
he was As s.mply n bored traveller. delighted to
break the monotony Of his journey by ar inno-
cent game Of euchre with pleasant compani ions,
he did not notice the allus!on OF the man with
the four aces to the Possibilities Of his hand.
hut a 90 ALL his attention again furt ner