Arizona republican., 1902-09-08
GAMBLIEG AT SARATOGA
Season Ending in a Mad Revel That
 Breaks All Recor6s.

With all gambling records for this re sort broken, and the entire population gambling mad, the season of 1902 is coming to q close. It is ending in q wild revel Of gambling such as has never before been witnessed.
 Men caught in the whirl have thrown 1 all discretion to the winds, with the re- i suit that in one nights sitting at the ! Saratoga club alone it is estimated that | $c09, eco was staked.
 On the same day $SOO,OO0 changed hands in the race track betting ring. ! It is estimated that altogether $15, ,O0O.- eco has changed hands ia the short seo- son just closing.
 The gambling houses have been hit hard within the past forty-eigbt hours. The playing has been very heavy in all of them. and the proprietors say luck was against them.
 ] The Saratoga club has just had the heaviest losses of the season. In a few hours one night the house lost $15,C00. This was duplicated within the next twelve hours, making a total loss of 1 S3OO 900.
 | A big part of the winnings was made by two men.
 Dave" Johnson, known as one of the heaviest plungers il the United States. and as the proprietor of a gambling house at Long Branch recently closed. was one of them. The other was Georgr 4. Wheelock, the well known book maker and president of the Metropoli- tan Turf association. The two players sat beside each other. Johnson kept the cases. They cleared up about $5,009 apiece.
 A very interesting play occurred at the Manhattan club. run by James i Westcott, Thomas Jolly and James l Welsh. There were only a few persons | in the club on Saturday night when the ! Hon. Bat MGsterson of Chicago and q 1 friend strolled in. They wandered about the room for a while and finally ran foul of Jolly.
 i Why don't You go out and take d walk, Tom?" he said. and give the i house a chance to do some business. If you stay around here the game'H be i queered all night"
 i Why" rejoined Jolly. you internal bounder from the bounding west, if you stay in here five minutes longer every man in the house will have his hand on | his watch
 Well" said Masterson, If you think i, you really do know anything about the game I'll just play against your deal | ing, provided l can get man to watch that you don't sand the cards on me"
 Its a go," replied Jolly, but l wouldn't deal for you ten seconds un- less I had somebody to watch the cash drawer. You'd be out through the win dow with the entire bankroll of the house if you got half a chance"
 Jolly took his place behind the table and Masterson sat down to keep the cases. Masterson changed s100, and in half an hour cashed in $350. netting q profit of $250 After he had divided the winnings with his friend he turned to Jolly and remarked:
 You're the softest thing ever. If you think you can play old maid or casino 1 or jack straws with more success than i you can deal faro let me know and I'll stick to you for a month. In the end I'll have enough money to buy Sara | toga hotel.'
 At the race track on Saturday Joe l Ullman, Eddie" Burke and Sol Lich- tenstein handled something like SiO0. | CCO As much more was handled by the other hookies.
 Ullman placed some very heavy wagers, the biggest being $50, GOO to S10.- coo against the Stanford stable in the | Saratoga cup race. Nellie Brant. a 10 to 1 shot, won the race. | A big winner was a beardless young ster named Langley or something like il. Langley began operations against the bookmakers three weeks ago with l has won $35, OOG and is attracting atten- ton by bidding up the horses that win selling races.
 l Langley comes from Kentucky. | Unknown plungers, men who have never been seen at the tables before, are among those who are enlivening the closing hours of the gambling houses.
 On Saturday night they crowded the roulette wheels and faro tables and rsked sums that only the nerviest gamblers are supposed to venture A young man whose father is said to have made fortune in coal during tho last three months sat in the restau- rant overlooking the gambling room and sent in commissions to venture on
 the colors at roulette. His woman companion selected the colors.
 "It is coming red after the next
 whirl" she said, and the young blood sent in $500 or S1 GOO every time she
 directed. Her guessing was first rate. and she claimed S9.C00 Of the $4.0O0 ke won.
 A strange theory is that while gamb-
 ling has been greater than ever before
 there have been no phenomenal plays. l In every other year there have been