The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-10-21
DOG EAT DOG.
Some Of the Games Attempted In the Hope Of
Beating the Faro Bank.

From ne Cincinnati Enquirer.
He appeared 70 he a csllow youngster. but
facts we're n the contrary A a high roller
he had had a career with a few checkers over
Il, and as a deale ~ that princely game where
fortunes pass between the little spots on the
cloth mother words. as faro dealer the cuti-
Gle had all been peeled on his eyes. There
might be music between the bars that lined his
linen. but II required a past grand master to play
that music. or At least 40 thought the gentlemen
who run the game and employed him. Both
were from Missouri. " and 70 get properly into
the vcrnacular you had 10 show them, and
when the pale-faced younsster applied for a
job behind the little silver box he was asked II
he knew anything
Ca you protect your game?" was the aties-
zion that met him AT the start. He coolly ar
ranged his gloves between his fingers. straight
eninE III m out with that ironing process 40
natural To persons thoroughly al their ease.
There was the voice of a three-carat sinner"
pleading for him. with n readv-money pigeon
blood in his scarf pin, and the owner of the game
paid a little attention to what he said.
IN tell YOU this II there's anything COM
ing of bet all the money YOU got IN the world
that I'll be on deck with a copper. As for
trihing oyersights. they will occur to anybody
At that, what have YOU got a lookout for2".
Then TO make good the cailow gent in sinners
sat down at the spare table with the proprietor
and a little shop talk followed
There i d little brace going around the
country that YOU m gh a. well look out for
II will come up so naturally that some Of the
oldest dealers will be taken "A their guard
II l. the one-night stalling act and viii cost
You a large chunk of your bank roll n YOU are
not next TO It was worked in Cincinnati
recently to the tune ~ about $500 A quiet
Gentleman VIZ drop into he game, SIT down
bunch Of checks To his right will presently
SIT down another, who will be making IS bets
or Whereabouts Faul, will be found with the
Of keeping cases 4 third will drop in. take
a scat to the left OF the case keeper and buy
The game is then on But before two minutes
a fu,~y. eTcitable fellow will take his place
M one end OF the table and buy a couple Of stacks
the board. but most conveniently around the
one who has the $500 worth. who az once places
two So bets corpered behind the nine and
A. soon "a possible the fussv guy claims a
bet that Is not his and gcts into an argument
and In a very short While the dealer and the
lookout are paving close attention 90 him He
Is the ono who docs the %stalling. II : o or 10
show, all well and good. the one making the
~ hot wins, but ir case anv one Of these cards
win tho one k'erlN. cases. whose fingers M tho
rack ar" ALREADY over the layout knocks oh the
copper on tho bet affected. and while tho cheap
play"r is making all The fus- the heavy one is
UiliuC NJ winning,
his II llr'' WORKED with n glnlfneO sleeve
The fu~,v one reaches for n bet either 10 change
or take il M, md. touching the COPPER on the
stack. bring II of with M slcove. and his pal
wins You want ~ look out for this system. for
II i worked Uult" a good deal. and successfully.
Then there i the fellow who makes bets In
li- mind Rctter look out for him. You NAV
have 10 nav HIN q hundred inst to keep out Of
an rglment II comes IN like this A fellow
VITO YOU NAV think l. a mu~h-hrad drorS in and
throw, a dollar over 10 the dealer The dealer
win ask him what that j. for He will say that
he bet &, m a certain card that has lost.
"Thr" the g1fr"h Uc' OF will fP'| him that
he Ind no bet down on that card and he VIII
- that he het on the card In his mind and that
dealer accent, II dollar after dollar is rolled
a'ro.- the IA -out 20 him until he has placed
about so IN the drawer. Suddenl' the pa-
tent one who gnWhle In vi. mind dances
around Tho room In great glse. And when he
B. a kcd what u j. tickling him 80 he will "a,
that he m 'uSt bet $40 on a rertain card and
won l. and will demand his "a, If hi los
20 IA IN" bet
Another form Of Gim-1smmer istob be guarded
HC1.n-t. Ne l. ~" one who la'S n folded bill
down upon a ard With The figure - II IL har-
On. to w." q tNo-d1llar hlil. showing. He
usually u.c- a unr-dullar bill. the figure / m
the. corner ,hGwing If he lose, instead u
letting the dealer take II M he throws him
q .iiver dollar "" Fe'vS this nm until he wins
a bot. and then N" dn1ler. IN "A ing the bet.
ma. q, MT dollar Till wra'r cd NJ inside the
on'-dolllr bill and IA t. a the mone,. The
rea-on. ne j. COM "lled to pa the bet Il be-
cause he himself j the one who has made the
error, II l. the dealer'~ rlace TO rick up the
Il. II he fails In this he must pav the hot or
have an argument. which he can hardly Afford"