The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-10-30
MONEY THAT BURNS.
SPORTING MEN EASILY GET RID OF
THE WEALTH THEY WIN.
What Cores to Them Through One Game
Gets Away From Them by Another.


Gets Away From Them by Another.
One OF the Class Uho says City Sports
Arc tho Easiest Of Easy Marks.
"If were locking for an easy mark"
said 4 New Yorker who is not an easy
mark himself. but sometimes finds use
i'll his business for easy marks. ~
v8aia hGvt fer him apeoDy the sporting
men, particularly If | were III q hurry.
Talk .bcut sporting men Icing shrewG!
WIZ, tl.ey cant get lid Ct their money
quick cnoCrh 10 suit them. That is es-
pcciaily trUe ct sporting men i'll New
York. Sportiag ren il the corntrv-
hayseeds, you'd call taen-have hH-der
heaGs til they come to New York and
their heads get swelled ard softeled
like tie others.
u suppose il Genes Of handling
mcsey il big Sums and lots Ct it. I've
noticed tie same thing atGlt bankers
aEtI Bank cle-.s. They slt accustomed
70 hand.e mercy just is ca-elessly as i
dynamite maker handles the explosive.
See the story CT all Gcfatcations and
entertainments. It's pretty mach an.at-
ter e t.E;Ee tie trcHble TO cant away
the stuff from tie rank. The banks get
III tie fut Of expecting you TO rob them
IL cf1tain ways, and If you just 20
a1cut Il III Some new, simple way, why,
everYthlDS's thrown open 10 you. It's
the anne way with the sporting men.
They get to thinking that nobody but
one CT themselves knGws enough to put
up a job. Mighty few know enough to
salt away their money.
"Another thing they don't know
enough to do is to stick to one thing
and get rich. A man may be a mighty
fine poker player. If he'sa gambler and
you want his money, all you have 10 do
is to match pennies or play old maid or
some other game that you can beat him
at. The chances are that he went know
enough to stick to his own game and
will buck up against what he tanks is
your luck till his last cents gone. Why
do you see SO many broken down faro
dealers walking about looking for the
price of a neal? Because they can't
help blowing in at policy or some other
skin game the money they make at their
business. They might all be well Off if
they knew as much as the business men
they look upon as chumps.
FITS funny, the round tie money
makes. The business man earns it and
blows it in at faro, and the faro dealer
blows it il at policy, and the policy
dealer leaves it i'll Wall street or real
estate, and so I suppose the business
man gets it again. Some of the money
may stick to the business man, but none
to the others. They don't know enough
to keep it. There's a man in this city
who has made ST. Gee. geo, easy, I sup
pose, ct gambling. He's always been
interested III DIX Of the biggest and
best gambling houses in this city.
"Thes game gees right along, re-
formed police or u~nreformed police.
Money flows into it steadily. Now, for
% years this man has been watching
what internal fcols men make Of them
selves. Yea would suppose he would
learn so,ne ms in that time, wouldn't
you? Well, often his bank roll is so
low that a IuE of luck a little out of
the ordinary would close the house.
Gamble? Not he! He thinks he knows
too much for that. No; he just puts his
money into grain or wildcat mining
stocks. Either viii 90 the business
quicker than gambling, and he'll he
lucky if lie leaves money to bury him
decently, although his gambling house
brings him in thousands.
'It seems as though they had to get
rid CT their money somehow Or bust
There's another man who kept a gam
bling house. He had a fine family and
maintained them in luxury. He wouldn't
gamble CT speculate either, but he had
tie money, and he had to spend it
somehow. He got interested in a church
and spent SO much money on it that one
day when the game went against him
he hadn't money enough to put up, and
so his snap busted. When / saw him
last, he was getting s25 a week as a
sheet writer for Il bcokElaker and glad
to get it.
"a man must have good sound sense
to he able to pick tie winner day after
day in horse races. l know a man who
is Q genius hat way. He never was a
pluncer, but was content to win a
couple Of small bets every day or so.
Ee must Lave cleared money at the
rate Of $40, 900 q year at it during the
periods when be gave his attention to
it. Well, be would ave so much, say a
couple of thousand dollars, and then he
would stop playing the horses and put
tie whole amount on a prizefight or an
! election or something of the kind and
would lose every cent.