The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-09
SHIRT rs 4 VOUCHER
TO A LUCKY POKER
PLAYER
BORE THE I o US OF LOSERS
Winner Had Narrow Escape From
Losing His Odd Collateral
on the Weekly
Washday.

Talking about queer things in poker"
said newspaper man who was discus
sing the oddities of the game with
party of friends, eve got a story that
think outranks anything in that line ever
published. and the best of 1t is it's tue
I've played the game a lot, as you all
know. and have associated with experts
for years, and the things that Eave come
under my observation are many ana
curious but all of them are eclipse1 by
one actual CONFERENCE.-The cashing in OF
a shirt for 500"
An incredulous smile went around. and
singing inquiries were made as to what
new brand of chop was on the market.
but the speaker never hfnched, says the
Chicago Inter Ocean.
"Joke away. boys he sad. know
my story sounds rather rocky, but when
l come to explain the deta Is and give
you the evidence you'll have to admit
that it's true. The names I'm going to
give are all bona fde; the ownels are
well known, and any enc of them viii
corroborate the tale, unless, re c lance,
some of them may have reformed and
Joined the church, which latter cont n
gency I would class as a 1.0O-to-1 shot.
for your real poker player never gets the
fever out of his blood, and all of these
chaps are sure enough devotees of the
game.
ct was in the Worlds Fair year, and
I was cutting a pretty wide swath in
Chicago. My nominal business was to
pose as managing editor of a daily news
paper, which just then was in tie hey
day of its success. The salary vas gocd,
but it was the smallest part II my In
come. as 1 was having enc of sIcse rare
runs of luck that come to every gambler
occasionally 1t just seemed as if Dame
Fortune had taken me under her wing
and was bound to make me a rich man
in spite of myself. My luck at roker
was something marvellous, the long-shot
nags 1 backed with the bookies at Wash
ington park cantered under the wire first
with a regularity that made me mark
ed man in the betting ring, and I even
beat brace faro game On Sixty-thicd
street by copperfng the bets o. a rich
granger who thought the deal was on the
square, and was stacking up his checks
in punches of $50 to a turn.
REMARKABLE RUN OF LUCK.
''That was the form was in one Sat
urday night in August when a party of
friends proposed a game of poker, and
we gathered around a table in a private
room connected with the bar of the Sar-
atoga hotel On Dearborn street. There
were seven of us in the game-viz., a Mr..
Carter, who was ]. x. Sebcee's partner
in the management or the hotel; Ed Red
path, who then ran the hotel bar, and
whose sister, Ollie Redpath and actress
was later killed by her insane husband;
Charles Whaley. business manager OF the
Evening Journal; Fred Ashley, who was
then cashier of the same paper, but is
now copper mine magnate in Boston;
Harold Vynne the novelist; Ike F1em-
ing, the commercial reporter, and myself
Any one of these men will verify tire
queer story I am about to tell 1t was
q very sultry night, and as the room
was small and the ventilation bad, we all
removed our coats and vests and played
in our shirt sleeves. At first the game
was light, the ante being a quarter and
the limit 81, but later in the session we
raised the stakes to- half-a-dollar ante,
with a So limit.
There was q reasonable amount of
currency in the party, but by midnight
1 had gathered IN nearly all of it, My,
how the cards did run that night, I
nave never had such luck since, and
can't reasonably expect a repet 1tion Of it
/ would stand a raise and draw four
cards to an ace in 81 jackpot, and get two
more, and on two or three draws made
fuIls by taking four cards. Once, on
picking up my hand, got the ace and
king of clubs with three small ones that
didn't help 1t any. 1t was double Jack
pot, and had been raised twice before
it came my turn to declare myself so.
there was great sum to gambia for
1t cost me SIZE to get in. At any other
time it would nave been rank idiocy to
have risked the money, but was playing
i'll such rare form that I made up my
mind to take a chance. Then another
thing to be remembered is, it was a
friendly game, and as had ell the money
on the table, L wanted to be just as Iiber-
al as possible, especially as three of the
losers were grunbiing about my luck.
Well, I called for three cards, at the
same time turning my ace and king of
clubs face up on the table, and saying:
Boys, 1 can't help being lucky and
don't like the idea of getting all your