The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17
A Western Hand That Enlivens the
Old Game of Draw.
Is POPULAR IN WYOMING
CALCULATED TO SWELL STOCK
OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.
One Man Who Began Shooting When
the Rules Were Explained to
Him-The Players Survived the
Melee, But Became More Careful
Thereafter.
New York SUM-

Now, the lulu is all right, and an
amusing bit of novelty of the horseplay
kind when all of the players sitting in
the game are familiar with the insti-
tuition; but it's calculated to create
widows and orphans when people who
don't know about it get into a game
where it obtains" said q man from
Buffalo, Wyo. I, for one, don't exactly
approve of these sideshow propositions
that get tackled on to the legitimate
game of draw. Take the joker in the
game of draw, for example Now, 1
came literally within an ace once of
getting cut into ribbons on account of
my ignorance of joker draw. That was
a good many years ago, and the intro
duction of the joker in the game was a
dead new one on me. The very first
time | went up against a game with the
joker in l caught three aces and then
corralled the other one in the draw. 1t
was table stakes, and | tapped on that
hand, of course; and when the cowman
who had seen my tap started to rake
in the pot, throwing down a royal flush
with the joker on top, 1 being young
and sappy, and pulp-headed then, didn't
know any better than to begin shoot
ing off my mouth a whole lot. The
coWman was reaching for his knife
when the other two fellows in the game
pushed me out of the room and saved
my life.
well, the lulu is even a queerer prop
osition than the joker in draw. A lulu
is three hearts and two clubs, and it
beats any hand in the deck out in
Wyoming. A royal flush don't count
any bigger than an eight high when
there's a lulu out. It's not altogether
a Wyoming institution, either although
it originated in Cheyenne. They play
lulus now all over Colorado, Idaho,
Montana, Oregon, Nevada, and Wash
ington, and l understand that the lulu
has recently been incorporated in that
weird game of cards that California
people call draw poker. a tin-horn
named Tom Wainwright who struck
Cheyenne with flyer faro layout about
twelve years ago introduced the lulu.
Where he picked it up [ don't know. 1t
caused a heap of trouble at first, did
the lulu, but the folks out my way
kind O. get used to it now, so that
roofing for the lulu is regular fea-
ture of a NIGHTS play at any old table
you fall against. Now, the lulu can
only be held once in an evenings play.
That's an iron-clad rule with regard to
it. It's considered, 1 suppose, that the
game would be debauched out of reason
if the lulu should be something to look
y
the entire space of a sit-down, so that,
as L say, it's only good for one whirl.
It's got to be pat, too. Fellows who
didn't understand this end of it have
got into trouble by drawing to and
filling lulus, and then trying to take
pots. There's no case though, of q man
out my way ever getting away with a
pot by the exhibition of u lulu that he
filled in the draw.
THE LULU" IN WYOMING.
Ignorance of the lulu hasn't, to my
knowledge, filed any Wyoming graves
for several years past, but the innova-
ton surely did cause bloOdshed during
the first few years of it's existence. L
happened to be a witness of the bruis-
ing finish of a spectacular game in
which the lulu figured in Sheridan,
WyO. back in 81. it happened in Ted
Carhart'S back room layout, where
four of the tables were reserved for
draw games between Carhart's patrons,
with a small rakeOff for the house.
Three sheepmen started a game of so
limit, with the understanding that there
was to be lulu. They were all men
of substance, and they had been play
ing lulus right along ever since that
feature of draw spread around the ter
ritory. They had been playing for an
hour or so. running about on even
terms, with no sign of the lulu, when
a quiet-looking chap, looking on, asked
them if they wanted to fill the table.
The man looked all right, and so they
invited him to sit in They took it for
granted that he knew about the lulu,
so they said nothing to him about it.
The stranger lost from the jump and
showed himself to be a. good loser. He
bet sagely and according to the value
of the hands he caught, and he caught
lot of good hands, too; but he was
quite a good pile in the hole after the
play had gone on for an hour or so.
He took his losings with all cheerful-
ness, and the three men with whom he
was playing found him rather an agree
able table mate, even if he did appear
to be a hoodoo.
FINALLY, Duke Denham. who had
forty-mile ranch near Sheridan, with so
many sheep on it that he hadn't been
able to get a count of them for five
years, examined a hand dished out to
him by the stranger with certain fixed