The sun., 1900-09-30


along an Smith raised an NeDslei Iaiseo
him. each OF EN- hayiu' draw one card Jus
naturally Fothergill seed through II an tHIoMeu
down hls cards Bein as he'd opened. ol coui -
he had 10 show openers an be showed qurtiI
fun. Nobody said nuthn when Shlth lald
down too, an Webster rakcd the pot, nut t'
Very nrNt deal stokes an Fothergill squoze
Webster the same way, an the heNI IrH ,il'l
caught Smith an gave him q similar un-',
Then BIll Davis. hr say, ! reckon "" We hau
enough Guild play, nov "i~ pay P"N''
an. there wasn't 40 more Wmpstw ll!l ,.l.
Wei ihr gam" Went ON au'i Hn P'n,,II,,u'Ii, 4,
got much advantage, don't pos" ,,iinnr. ir,J'
was ruorr'u "a uuup" e. hundred doIlar- d,l'I
euce between any iW" "I 'il, IoI @ @n'"' ,,d ~ a.
'Iwasn't his good play particular ih",s' u T,
he played proper gam" enough b"' h' just
caught he card. ,, ,r
n huudrd an an except Stokes passed h'
skinned his hand down a4' hudm a IHuI nushi
q spades with queen an jack ~ H. i'' 49, ,,
back Smith stayed an each oi "lh ''"N "''
card
Just naturally stokes thought O. Cour,r.
that smith was drawn TO two biur. q" ,t "a ' N
klng-queeu Hush was worth pldylh usalnsl /"
possible full house So when smith put up
hundred Stokes raised him five hundred. .,
Smith looked through his hand careful an
came back az him with five hundred more
That set stoke. a thlnkm pretty nara u,uitt uut
finally he says, I'll see that an gO you a tho'-
sand better llcva- a fgscrin' on two GhaACn,7.
II Smith hadn't bctterrd his two pair led prrlG
sure las down. but II he had betiCrei Ia" Iuisht
have ruus Il -mlll fun an lay down ahyto"
AGAINST a strong blutf.
IT looked A. il he wa- about right tor Few
minutes for Smlth studied his mana IoLs
time afore he spoke. but finally ho give II an
other hist OF tWo thousand an 1t wa up 70
Stokes to do some -tudyiu' on his own Ht'ouu,. .
We'll. he told me afterward that the way
he hggered was that smith Thought he wa
hluhin' AID that he was buNl', too. 50 he
fingered his wad an Hudiu' hr only had iiiteelt
hundred left he called for SHOW ! uVn
Stokes played better n did crcuif he dld max .
%et that didn't make some. an mc,bo twas
good ulnv unyLoW I've Irrr'd ~urn" -IN IL
vr-
But you can h"' your boots there Va, some
eyoit"megt nnco tlr hand, wa. ;,oHyd d.M3. .,,ig
hut smith had an ar" du.h o. diamonds, an'
iust t.4fIrrpII,. started tn sr,,ll ff.r not
different haud from What he ,,t, !pukiu' for
Nm inst frr n Instant he didn't -av uothiu',
but thcn io tLoIpLt what Ir va. about an
be grabbed smith, Iu,d inst a. il rested on
~" H. ,n,cr f., tin T,iJ,iI" If u. t.,ble an he
w ~. ,.,,,, l.' w., iro,, ~ IA ,a'rd Ne
S,, n'c, 1,,tr,t ,, tnrr ru-la, In tl.i,
p'fI IT,, 40 HAN ..,,r,I ,lt,cs r,r,.,oi Web
,, 80 ., ,.,'.r t.',, 1 ,, 'I,,I
,,,.,,r law. iufnrf.r.d H.. ,yay Ln ,tG bgt he
I'.'' w., ,,,',, 1 Wv, W. @ 80 ~,
~ .l' ..,,,., 81 81, 49, H. a. ,r - n,
u ON, ~Hl''Ir KY amos "IoN' u, az '"ou
iEn he found Hit.olf i""S,ir' mo ol" man Foth-
c-giIl's fnI an toih'rEiII .iyn very pleasant
an IlNH, l"I h''n oul 'l-, u"N. I.'' ~
g"ht"u"h T"liH " A,N.I themselves anu
Neb,l% uI' W" u!du h.iI no more from
hiW ~! NtokrN ,o"E hlin OUTSIDE al Iter"ard an
H'ked nun PROPER lVI htI'lh hls haIu: Ill.,,
la the meantime smith was sayln, l didn't
open on no lour Nush. l. opened on aces an
Gpit ny "p9nri- mere 'he ace hear'7
IT. The discard where put i
:, Well, the boys was plumb hqbbcrGas'"d
l We htef dt"ll Nluo" h"h li4i ihey DO piy poker
thal WY w 9Ui"t p'hyr,, ~. ~. u ] ~ w IISS
time anybody IN Arkansas city hPd ever heer Il
o sph'tn openers an We was All struck dumb
Tor minute.
Then there was considerable conversation
goin' GA for a tifpe. everybody talkiu' an no
body h,ienlh bnt finally stoke. be-. spoke
you play In Missouri, but we're playin IN
Arknn~as Just now an sphttin, Openers ain I