The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-02-23
AHEAD OF THE GAME S46,7Oo
Result az UsRal-Staid In Until He Hadn't
n Dollar.

AHEAD OF THE GAME $46,7OO
Result as U~spal-Staid In Until He Hadn't
IN Dollar.
l asked Tom Fitz, who during tho
Hopkins administration owned one
OF the biggest gambling institutions
In the city, his highest winnings md
losses in q single night at faro. Said
he: I'm those days l took my meals
at the Boston Oyster House. A GER
tain r~edheaded waiter served me.
he was kind and attentive, and HE
tips were not small ones. Besides.
he received n fair salary. But as reg
ularly as Saturday night rolled
around / would find him in front of
one OF my tablen, and he never got
away with a cent. i watched him
play for two years, and finally one
night I tolI MIN that l Z didn't care
for his money. In other words. l
barred him from the game. Well.
one Saturday night. while l was
busy In another part Of the building,
this waiter bought q stack Of chips
from a dealer. and by the time I got
back 60 the table ] saw him rakjnc
in thu ch:rs ss II there was no cell.
ing or roofing to the building and
that some cloud from above was
raining them down. OF course l
couldn't then object. So I let him
play along, expecting every minute
to sec his luck change. But it didn't.
BE oouldn't lose. The limit was
800, and he played it. In less than
an hours time l was counting out
white chips to him at S1O apiece, and
the yellows were $500.
Eat daylight l estimated that he
had VOL about $50. 600. His luck
seemed SO phep omenal that i sent
out for another dealer, hoping in
this way to break tho charm. But
he won on. / sent for another, and
still the chips went his way. / dealt
myself for n little whilo, but he
would whipsaw me at every turn. I
quit him and turned him over to one
Of the luckiest bank dealers that
could be procured in Chicago. But
we couldn't beat him. He would put
his bets down blindly, and the cards
would come his way. He didn't play
'sodas' O Single outs nor double
outs He put chips down. and they
went back to him twicefold. He
called the turn a half dozen times
for the limit.
About noon Sunday, when MI
the dealers we're tagged out and it
looked as il he would wv the shop
in Il little while. / called for his
chips. I had had enough. BY that
time he WAS fairly drunk. He tried
70 count, but he couldn't. In FUN
bling with his chips he knocked.
more than $500 on the floor to be
picked up by hangers on He was
ahead Of the game S4s ?o9 ! took
him aside and explained to him that
if lie went out of the building with
that much money he would be rob-
bed. He consented to let me keep it
for him-all but the 500. l gave
him this much in big bills and told
him that any time he wanted the re-
mainder and would come sober he
could get it.
"Three days elapsed, and ! heard
nothing of him. I became alarmed
and sent one of my men out to hunt
him up. His whereabouts could not
be ascertained. But about closing
time on the following Wednesday
night he walked IN. OF course he
was broke. Hohnd forgot how much
he had left 18th me, and when l
counted out sac, 900 lie seemed dazcd.
He acted as if sober. He got to the
steps and hesitated. Then he walk
ed back. He bought 500 in chips
and commenced to play. At first his
former lick ran with him, but in
the course of an hour lie struck u
wrong strenk, and before daylight /
mad every cent of the SAG, 600 in the
drawer, and it belonged to me. 1t
is a fact that outside of whisky and
"a few meals he had bought ho
hadn't provided himself with a sin
gle thing. In the way of personal
apparel he hadn't bought even a
~shoestring. AS lie arose from tho
table he looked at me appealingly,
as good as to say, Won't you buy a
drink l handed him SIC and told
him to go home. The following
night he served me at the restaurant
again. "-Chicago Tim s-Herald.
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