The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-06
COLD FEET IN POKER.
EMBARRASSING MOMENTS THAT
WILL COMEsIN GAME OF DRAW.
session in Idaho The Sherlock
Holmes Way Out - The Bride
groom's Plea-An Imperative En-
gagement.

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
some rainy afternoon when I've got
nothing TO do but sit indoors and wait for
people to come and hand me money I'm
going to write a treatise entitled Poker
cold Feet, From Pathological and Psy-
Geological Point of View said Doc
I.add of the Cherokee nation. at a Chi
cago hotel the other night. mot that
cherish the belief that the grisly symp-
toms of cold feet in poker are not fully
apprehended by the whole community of
poker players; but 1t seems to me that
the nature and character of cold feet in
poker, together with some general tips as
TO how and when to get the same, and
perhaps map of the United States show
ing by shaded sections those parts of the
country where it isn't healthful for a man
who's a big winner suddenly to acquire
a case Of frigid pedals in game of draw.
would be a good thing, and that 1t ought
10 sell pretty we'll We're all subject to
sudden attacks of frappe underpnnings
when we're to the good in game of
draw, but all of us don't just exactly know
how to get away with the proposition.
The work of some of us when we get that
way Is pretty coarse; we're not convinc
ing enough TO make it stick; and it occa-
sionally happens that we have real diff
Guilty. or embarrassment at the last, in
breaking out into the open with the goods
on us. That's why I think a brochure on
the subject ought to make a hit.
Il once sat in a game with three sheep
men out in Idaho. l didn't know any of
them very well. From the beginning of
the soiree couldn't lose. l was due to
take the midnight train on the Union Pa
cific for town in Oregon, but 1 hadn't
said anything about that before sitting in
the game. And when / went right OUT
and got their money in gobs, l didn't feel
that it would be exactly dead wise on my
part to mention it. At II O'Clock, after
three hours play, I had $3.50 of their
money, and still going easy, yanking down
three pots out of five. In another hour 1
had to make that train, and l knew that
l could never do it with all that gilt of
those sheep men on me. Said 1 to myself,
Five hundreds a good enough winner;
SO I'll just slough off all but $500 of this
bunch. and by that time it'll be midnight,
and can do a sudden cash-in. and maybe
they'll let me go away with it,.
80 l began to bluff them out Of their
boots. 1 raised it before the draw and
stood pat on king high, and they cussed
and laid down; l drew out a dead one to
pair, and it seemed to be simply impossi-
bic for me TO push any portion of that
$3.50 over to them.
Didn't Want to he Porous.
ION, the. contrary. inside of another ha'f
hour l was 5000 more to the good Of hem,
making me S. 450 winner. l knew that [
couldn't get away with all that-not with
sheep men on the other side of the table !;
and didn't want 'em to render me porous
and leaky with the forty-fives that they
had strapped in plain view around their
waists Neither did l want 70 do any
backing and filing and craWfishing. I'd
got their money on the level and it was
mine; and if 1 couldn't lose it back to them
decently and in order at the same game
al which I'd got 1t away from them, then
ii up 10 me to do something else. The
tempers of the three sheep men werA
pretty craggy by this time. and / didn't
know what to expect of them; but ten
minutes before the train was due just aft r
I'd hauled in another jackpot worth $3.50,
y I pushed back my chair stretched my
arms. yawned quite generously and got
up.
My friends said I, hanging on light
so as not TO permit my voice to tremble
this concludes my portion of the enter
tainment.
They all leaned back in their chairs
and looked up at me, and they looked
darned ugly, at that.
The devil you sayr said one of them.
les, SdlQ L, sun USntllS L0dl ten
dency of my voice TO wabble on critical
occasions, this is where pass out. I'm
going to
Feel draft on your feet, hey? said
the ug1est of the sheep men, surveying
me sardoncally. Subject of chilblain.,
are you? Look a-here, podner, that may
go all right downin the Cherokee country
but up this-a-way such conduct is viewed
with disfavor, il not with suspicion; and
anyhow, you're not well acquainted
enough around this neck o sage bush to
do q jack rabbit scramble of that s-rt.
You've got to know -
Il cleared my throat. loudly, took a grip
on the back Of my chair, and cut in right
there
Tim up against it. in a way l said.
and don't think there was a culver in
my pipes then on account of my neglect
funess. l neglected to state, when l sat
into this game, that I'm booked for the
westbound train that creeps in here al
midnight; consequently In accordance
with the poker code that's lived up 10 in
this section, it's probably not up 10 ne
20 make that announcement now, when
I'm way TO the good and expect % nike
with my winnings. It's coming TO ne 10
state, however. that I'm a square man,
and that l got this bunch in strictly on
the-Ievel play. But the business that I'm
embarking on this midnight train for is
of whole lot more Importance to me than
any poker winnings; and I'm not iryiug
to butt the hinges off any unwritten poker
rules or notions that may prevail up this
way. Therefore, for the sake of beirg
agreeable, I'll just cash in the 800 worth
of chips that l bought when ] sat in, and
You gentlemen may make whatever divis-
ion of my winnings that best suits you
The three sheep men listened attentive
ly to that spiel II was the only way
knew TO get out of the predicament. AS
tell IL now il may look as If l showed the
milk-white plume; but they were three
against one, and l never went a-hunting
for that kind of bother. When / got
through they looked at each other. Then
they all got up.
Looked Out for Shooting.
Gosh in your hundred, nothing said
the ugliest of the three. looking me
straight in the eve, and right then / fig
ured that. when the shootink began It
would be best for me to drop suddenly
to the floor and try to crawl to one of
the windows. You don't cash in no hum
dred here. You cash in every damned