The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-12
JIM LANES LOSS OF NERVE.
THE REFORMATION or DTSH0N-
ksT POhER PLiYER


Forced One of Them to Teach Him His
Tricks Won Till lie sat in II Game where
Somebody Else Was Marking the Cards.
Jim Lane is in town. hear" said the liu.
man with tie sctubhy beard as he threw down
a winning king nl and rakcd IN the stack Of
chill from toe middle Of the table
who's hey' asked q man across the table
Jim Lane" answered the iifst speaker was
the nerves; and best gambler IN oil probability
who ever stacked a deck OF cards in this great
and glorious poker PLAY ing country. He knows
every trick hat was ever PLAYED with cards and
can work those sane tricks better than any Other
man ~ saw OF Heard Of don't mean seight
ofhand tricks. ! mean tho regular professional
| gamblers tricks thc II cks that ore played 10
| win money dishonesty lie must be So years
old II he's day, but yuu wouldn't think il II you
| put your eyes on him llcs got little thin boy
| ish face and a light mouslaChc that will never
| grow any larger than 1t il, and altogether he
| has about the moo, iunoccnt appearance you
would strike from New York 10 Frisco I've
| crossed the Continent by stages winning my
| carfare at the great American game. and never
| saw his equal in the lhmb.like innocent way.
But oh. how that little fellow las fooled the best
| Of theml in fact. J think he only caught
| at the game once aud tlen the man who caugbt
| him didn't dare IN squcal because he was working
the same identical game. Jack Hale who was
known all over the West az Dorey Hale, caught
him. AT that game Jim Lane lost bus nerva
He never got II brsk. either
Lame natural born gambler. He couldn't
keep AWAY from the cards lust the same an
opium hend hangs onto his dope. It's disease.
An old uncle down In San Bernardino county had
died and the bulk Of his fair sized pile went to Jim
The young fellow started in TO spend it right and
left, until he struck stiff poker game at tho old
,, ,t,,Nt
lot of slick guys in the game and they let the
young chap win Just enough the first night TO get
the lever III his blood tic next night they made
bis pile look sick, ana the rest OF ,he week they
kept him busy writing Out checks to square him
self Then the gang who had heeeed him left
town.
night as 10 the character Of tho p.olIe who had
got into his roll lie vent home aud thought -
all over lie thought II oil over many times, and
the next night he ran across one Vi the guys who
| had been in the game
. sSne up to my room, o SAD Lane I've Eo'
| The other fellow went along. Lane took him
| up TO the room and then shutting the door, pulled
! out revolver and said, he wanted 10 know sUme-
! thing. The other guy put w Eck when the
gun WAS flashed on him, out Lane quickly made
| himself understood.
-'You and your crowd OF thieves said Lane
! have got away with my pile. hats all right
, Now I'm DOING W get some VI that money back
You Just sii down and teach NE nov ~ deal cards
! 80 | can win.
-'rhe guy sat down and for twelve solid hours
! those two fellows uld nothing but shuttle and
deal cards The slick guy dthlt SEE onds, stacked
as he played them, and IN Just about nine times
out OF ten he would fool Lane completely. Then
Lanes thumb nail so 10 could mark the cards
and nled of the skin Of hts thumb % he could
deck Lane proved 10 Ee al ensy gambler. and
when his teacher left him that mig hi he had learned
The nanpSlaon q every Wss kn m y, TO 10.
them and he spent weeks anu weeks IN d.An Z
on. imaginary bends % P 24hsT men ne s1 soni
adence at lrst to try Any Of his games when play
Ing but he inystALiy praet.sed marking the cnfdH
OF the big cards In the pack within twenty minutes
After The frst hand is dealt LAM told me thHa
by and Gy be started in % deal himself some
Of Tho marked cards and be Invariably won, es
esySS IN s n: sA BIS
and In a year or two he wac uke q veteran e
win he piungers who ran up sgainst him,
b 30. S SS & nos sssP9
70 him PLANS a.i DS liz s, ns1. Tish
Frisco fellow. 10 The sana Jim started in .
ses u h1' his I'q hand was b. ling q diaSona
and hs immetistely punched ne sharp corner 1t
very next hand the deal came around 70 Jim Hs
shurled and roshufHed and nhiod, feeling card
|
10 IL the be- middle Of bis deal
whats tho matter asfcd man n across ,e NE
tru.b was 10 had found b. king Of sis%sonSs
, somebody e,se had begun 70 marx earda Jim
sa.pee,ea Hale ngS! away but hs t,dn And nd
& ss yS' over sS';s vs sga ss1 :s,sssa hs
Hale appeared especially sleepy he held mag
nlGoeni hand i looked sranEe 6u, as the
Jim began 70 think he was mistaken and had him:
NAH &; /: .,ss; I'd !:
For some reason Jim's s.spieion. wandered
Sss NO psrsieulsi reason !SI I. su, d, .a.Pe,sa
ds sEs siG Ss any Snnos. ~,S Se.s sord
though, Jim 70 himself tn lie low and watch
Jim kept on marking card. tvs, ne same
Suddenly liale stopped In the middle Of z deal
and Jumped up IN his ss" down w ss"I snS
the cards Sh, Ne Ono Sss.S ts r.ssoS sas
game Somebody asked Hale what .ns The
Indigestion answered Hale In sharp tone.
went IKE a dash lie could e.rsly NJ, hi. heAA
ave got enough he said throwing down hip
cards aitor the nen, deal I'm going homo
! HALE overlook him al the oornoI and tapped
him on the shoulder Jim started a. n he had
been shot ~
| ones on 70 you except mo Come In hers pointing
70 a saloonl I've got something sAni 70 sAS
70 you ,,. ~. has. NOR, ., IN. ,,,oo,
and sal down In quiet corner,
-You'rc tho slick,si dealer hat ever happened
| on this earth said Haln
| mo I'm not answered Jim You ore ths
| siickest watched you for half an hour and did
| cards and couldn't
I'VE won't quarrel over that said Halls but
rve got proposition 10 put 70 you, You como
| In With me as q paTtnoI and wo will MP out The
7 dough from tho Jeans Of every player on hA
COAST
Two lost my nerve and III noyor get II back lra
| no 20 Get out and let mo alone
-Hale went He was shot hcIoss q card table
I three weeks aiterwaId and died In his chair jim
quit the gam That Ia, he quit marking cards,