The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-02
GAMES ARE GOING
GAMBLING HOUSES SAID TO HAVE
OPENED UP ONCE MORE.
SOMETHING DOING IN MANY,
NO DEAD ONES HAVE TO BE INTRO
DUCED INTO GAMES.

Live Ones Are Easily Found with
Accumulated COin-Things Look
Like Old Times with Some of the
GambIers-No More Sitting Around
on Corners at Night-They Have
Found Something Better Than
BE Found without TroubIe-GOod
Government League Knew the
Games Have Been Running.
Gambling rooms are said to be open
again in Savannah. This is commonly
talked on the streets, and the predic-
tons that it would not be long before
there would again be something doing
for the professionals has fallen true.
For ten days or more it has been
easily possible to find good game go
ing on. There has been plenty doing
for the two or three houses that were
willing to brave the Good Government
League, and again set the festive tiger
to roaring. The games have been full
pretty much every night, and the gam
blers have concluded that the business
wasn't hurt a bit by the unpleasant
manner in which it and it's exponents
were treated in the courts recently by
the Good Government League.
For couple of months there was
nothing doing for the gamblers. They
held off from games, indulging, il at
all, only among themselves They
wouldn't risk framing up game for
the players who like 10 sit in Tor lit
tie draw or stud now and then. There
was too much danger III it. There's no
fun in having $500 or a thou dug
out for the law. The profession had
had quite enough of that sort of thing
for a little while, and its opponents
were content to sit about on the down.
town street corners, talking over the
situation and deploring the moral wave
until morning. That was an unprofit
able way of spending the precious
hours of night, however, so they con-
cluded after time, when the fear of
the Good Government League had
been, in a measure. dispelled, to get
down to business again.
A game was started in a hotel, 1t is
said, and nothing dropped. ex-
cept wads. Then a gambling house
began business at the same
old stand on Whitaker street.
Nothing happened. except that players
appeared in droves. Then a well-known
Congress street shop had it's emissaries
telling the select players, who might
be trusted that there was something
doing. Still nothing has happened.
Others may be looked to start up, be-
cause there is a good thing in it..
Two months give poker players, those
who do not mind trying their luck in
a game in one of the established
houses, time enough to get hundred
or so ahead. The gamblers found them
waiting for games. The consequence
has been that there has been. no trou-
BILE in getting players. tN
Ordinary Jackpot, draw poker, 1t is
said, can be had, or table stakes" or
stud" The crap tables are running,
too, 1t is said, and one of the houses is
running its bank. Circumstantial de-
tails of some of the games float
around. For instance. it is related with
much gusto how one of the smoothest
of the local sports played a bold bluff
against an Atlanta man a few nights
ago 1t was in table stakes game. The
Atlanta man opened 1t for S. and the
gambler raised him 81 so. The ATTAIN
tan, who sat behind three aces, came
back with SIS more, when the gambler.
after some very disconcerting deliber-
alton, piled in a $50 raise. Then the
Atlanta man decided he would only
call, so the cards were dealt. The At
lanta man drew one; the gambler
stod pat AS the Albanian drew his
card, he remarked in brayado that he
intended to call any bet. Seeing the
gambler stand pat, he "bretthed' 1t up
to him, and the gambler went to his
wad. He deposited the tar. rubber
round roll on the table, saying he
would bet a thousand. After fifteen
minutes thinking. during which time
he had the sympathy of all the others,
the Atlanta man laid down. The gam
bier had bluffed it out on bob-tail.
The Good Government League
knows that the gambling houses have
been operating. A representative of IL
said last night that they had heard
about the games. He did not say what
they intended doing. He had heard
nothing about keno and policy being
run, and in the suppression of those
games he seemed to find much for
which he might be thankful.