The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-09-22
PLAYED POKER BY The BOOK.
A BRITON VINO UNDERTOOK 10
TEACH THE GAME.
old Wan Grecnhut Tells How tho Arkansas
ttty Talent were wiling to Take
LESSONS tntii Ihe, Pound Out what the
Book ~said-Ihcn the Game Ended.

her, world Said old man Greenhut a.
Ne rinscd out a couple of whiskcy glasses
and -et them away that seems 60 think
they Is app'nted by a sll-wise Providence
Go s~t other folks right. II don't seem
90 max. no difference what's done. or who
doe Il. or how it's done. they're always
rsdv TO chip n lot Of advice into the
not. an tell en- now they'd oughter lone
Il different.
Mostly such folks h born fools an don't
know no more about thing- In general than
a hound pup ia the wilderness knows
about the plan % salvation. but you couldn't
make one Of EN- realize what a fool he h
n YOU was 20 cut his e a open an try to
,quirt sense into IL. What's this the good
book saysg It's somethin' about II you
raund "A fool up In n mortar and shoot him
out with the bombshells yet viii not his
folly depart from him.
There ain nothin'. a. I said. but what
critters like them viii try to put right &C
coriin' to their own notions. an the result,
~ far as I've ever seed II. h tol'able GER
tain 10 IL n mik-up OF the worst sort. An
Wien they gets INTO a game o. poker there's
moro had blood stirred up In a hour than
good. steady play for six months d be
likely To bring up. Sometimes it's on'y
nasty words. an sometimes it's n gun
Ilay. But when such q critter gets hold
- one o. these here poker MANUALS such
A. / seed the other day that's just bsen
published In England an undertakes to
make a civilized community swaller his
raw notions just because some Teller that
never played poker OF the Mississippi has
rad EN- printed In a book. he can Just
about cover the underside O. the sky with
c1bwcbs o. pcrplexity pun out O. the brains
@ good men that gets bewildered ~listenin'
4 EN-.
The way I come TO see this here book
I'm te.lin' about was through a little game
that the boys got up last week to obige a
tayslhn' Englishman that stopped owe
fr a few days TO look At some plantations
~ the river "A bit, that Was offered TO a
Bltlsh syndicate at a fgger hat wouldn't
h. pad more'n 100 per cent. profit TO
tie owners IL the deal had went through.
They said this here wanderiu' Willie boy
VAS a sort o. ord or some;hin' when he
Wa e. home. but hs was travellin' In cogs.
whatever they H.. an uld carry his
title with him on account o havin' To pay
duty on II under the Republican tarif.
Anyhow. he was called Mr.. Hapgood when
De- Wa travellin'. an the keeper that had
him in charge treated him as II lac was
lLNlAf q kAtrNs flaIkP'i aAtN hAAA az
valet. an ordered him round like he was a
hired man. an the keeper never made no
fuss AZ All about II
-Hapgood was pokin' round town askin'
oil sorts o. questions Of everybody. an
some o. tho boys referred him 10 me for
general information. ~ he come Ia that
.ysuin' an chinned with me for half an
hour. lie bought liquor for the house
two or three times, an somehow or another
There was quite "a crowd In here after the
81 ..,,l a.sn thaFa VA soma N the
crack players In the place. an II kind o
reminded mo o. the popularity O the game
here, 40 when Hapgood asst me, a. he did.
what the leadin' Industries o Arkansas
City was, I mentioned draw poker among
'em lie kind o. laughed as II I'd said
somethin' funny. an said he hadn't been
in tho habit o. thinkin' of II as a industry,
hut he'd given considerable study to tho
game an had come To the conclusion thai
/ was just about the real thing. asst him
n he'd played Il much an he said no, not
exactly, hut him an four or five O hls
friends had got hold O. this hero manual,
~ he called Il. an had practised quite a
lot so's't he considered himself a hrst-cAss
Tlayer.
We'll, just naturally I gave him TO under
stand that we had some players IN town
that we thought was able TO hold up. Their
end against any ordinary player, an that
they would consider Il a privilege to make
w a game most any time II they could get
. frst-class player 20 give them points
They was always nxiou TO learn ! said,
an II he would like To get the benefit OF a
little practice. ] thought they arrange
It ~o's't he could have the opportunity.
You'd ha' thought he was a bullfrog
jumpin' for a piece o. red flannel IN you'd
la scn how quick he took u up. lie
vas more than ready, an the boys seein
Row eager he was kind O. hung back 20 he
olaxNd' hut old Jake W~interbottom he
pleaded with 'em till he got Jim Blaisdell
an sam Pearsall an Joe hassett TAI set IN
with him an make a fve-handed game.
They set down az the table as they was
place that happened, an Hapgood he says,
kind % surprised. We'll have to cut for
cioioe o. seats. won't wer
The boys was more surprised h
;" was. and W~interbott&m, he siys,
don see no objection 10 That, but II any
b1dy has any choice o seats be can have
4 as fur as I'm concerned. l don't see
~ use o outtin'.'
Well says Hspgcod. the rucs .ays
must cut Tor choice. iJnre e GIN
] understand IL. poker ought 10 Us PLAYED
n under tho rules
You're dead right on that. stranger,
says Joe B~assctt, givin' Winterbotton
can tot this game Is goin' To lie PLAYED
sCcordin "a rules II I'm In IL. An u wont
/. healthy for the man that breaks the rules
y they cuts for choice q SEATS, 70 rear.
eAl cut low. nat SlNe MN 'nf Cit'hOt
sats, and he said he'd set where he was.
Nluterbottom was next lowest man an
b. said he'd set where he was, too. He
vas suited well enough But Hapgood
b. spoke up again an he says that won't
d. The second owe-t man must st
newt on the left O. the low man, an the
tird lowest next on his left. an - on.
'W~interbDttom started In to GUS "A little,
not uecause he cared "A cuss, but just bc-
cau-c he was surprised. but he got another
kick Ia the shins, an takin' "a sudden tumble
l. itself he jumped up an took his proper
sat When they'd all got -eat'Sl again
Jae Bassett asst In n general snu o way
What coed all that did. an Hapgood says.
Nhv. that's ono O. the laws In IA. Inter
national Code. You have to do u before you
p.y ~ els the game woudnt oe regular
1hat's right says Joe hs-eut. We
mus play by the rules, but, stranger, We
sirtoNactly posted % this her ~ l~nternaunnal
C.ar We plav the old Mississippi River
nl"-. the Mississippi River bcin the place
N.,r" the game was born an grOwed up
u 'lcrc's a International Code we'd Nv"
I AuUW about Il. an II you'll tell " all about
y ~ W play. we'd think Il mnnrirous
a. 4 ~ YOU
Wen. ~flnpEood says hc1l do II with pleas
IN o. be- spukc Ia his keeper an icu- hun
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