The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-20
A POKER STORY.
Hard Rub Between Two Royal Flush
Hands.

Hands.
From the New York Commercial
That was a good poker play by John
w Gates that you people told about the
other day" remarked C. Fred Kimball.
the Chicago carriage manufacturer as he
sat in the smoker of the Holland House
recently. But for a rather unique COM
bination of circumstances and outcome in
IN eight-handed game, commend me TO a
Jackpot incident in Washington thar a
friend of mine witnessed. The scene was
the den in the residence of well-known
cabinet officer. and in the game were
United States Senator Jim Smith, of New
Jersey, Speaker Reed, Tom Lowery Of
Minnesota, Gordon Weld of Boston, a
well-known coal operator of that day, ia
'niliarly addressed as 'Gordy;' Congress
man Dougherty of Florida Tom Enos of
New York, a nephew and namesake of
the famous DR.. Thomas W. Evans of
Paris, of whose immense estate the New
York heirs will get about 100000, under
the recent compromise; the cabinet Off
Ger host, and another player whom
don't recall at the moment-it doesn't
matter. 1t was an eight-handed game,
not by choice exactly, but because one
after another dropping into the house had
been invited TO 'sit in and had accepted.
The ante was 80 cents. the limit 80.
A pot had been lacked. and, of course.
had just 81 in it, You will note that,
with eight players, there were only twelve
cards left after each deal-often not
enough for the draw all aroGnd-and the
discarls had TO be reshuff1ed 10 complete
the draw II was Enos deal. Weld sat
on his left and opened the pot for S.
Everybody stayed in, which made s44 in
the pot. Weld drew one card and as
he did so. said: I want TO call every
body's attention to my discard-the king
of spades and he faced the card UP on
the pile. Now. this wasnt exactly ac-
oording to Schenck, but 1t was permissi-
BILE by unanimous consent OF the party.
1.-The draw proceeded. Help the gentle
menr was Reeds response. with gen.
erous wave Of the hand, to the dealers
inquiry and he fondled with ill-conceaed
satisfaction what appeared. of course. to
be pat hand. Before the draw was com
pleted the discards had 10 be shuffied. and
when It came Enos' turn to draw he took
only one card. I'm panied, remarked
. Gordy, to take good money from you,
gentlemen, but really ! must bet the lin
it-and up went crisp $40 sheet. Dough-
erty stayed Reed drawled: You'll be
panied still more before you get through
with me, Gordy. Ten better! While I'm
unalterably opposed to imitation of the cur
rency.' said Lowery, I must whoop that
up bit'-and he put $50 into the center
The next three dropped out, but Tom Enos
remarked, with the soft lisp OF the Evans
es: Only ten more. | wish there was no
limit GoTdy raised 1t ten. Dougherty
thought this was getting too rich for his
Cracker blood and dropped out. The
Speaker hit Il up ten. Lowery fell by the
wayside. and Enos set the Speaker back
another ten. Gordy raised 1t UP to the
limit again, 'Goodby, sweetheart, good
by was the fat Speakers parting salute
as he faced a small red flush on the table
and stood up in his place 70 see Tom and
Gordy fight It out.
Each had drawn only one card and
of course TO that extent IL was even Ste
phen with them. But Gordy must have
had openers TO start with. Wen. those
two just sal there and bucked back and
forth so lick Gordy at one time OBJ
serving that. Il Tom wanted 10 go up into
futures drafts on the Evans estate
would be accepted readily by him. FL
1900 in the port, Gordy called, simply
because, as he explained, IL wasn't hard
ly fair to the others to delay the game
so long Enos exposed a royal fush--the
ace, king queen, jack and ten of spades
Gordy's hand was a royal flush. too-dia-
mondf. with the king at the top-and Tom
swept the winnings into his lap Gordy
had split his openers-a pair OF kings
I'm order to draw to a four-straght fiush,
and had caught the nine of diamonds, as
he had hoped 10 do. but his discarded king
OF spades exposed was Just what Tom