The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17
GAMBLERS SKINNED BY
 STUDENTS AT ANN ARBOR

had to borrow or wire for money to Keep from walking out of town.
 Some of the students, from constant practice and much dearly bought ex- perience, have become extremely clever in handling the cards. and when they play in their own rooms, with their own cards, and all of their associates as com rades, it goes pretty hard with the pro- fessional gambler who has no accom- plice and who Is so closely watched that he finds it impossible to work his fa- vorite tricks The gambler who is taken into camp in this manner by the stu dents usually gets revenge, however He submits to his losses with good grace, and fatters the collegians on being so expert with the cards. He tells them that they are the best players he has ever met and succeeds in getting them to promise to come over to Detroit and have a little game with some friends of his who play a nice little game and would like to have some of the university boys join them. The students go over. and after they invade the tiger in his lair they are not allowed to go until they are pucked clean.
 Card playing roulette and dice, how ever, form but a part of student gam bling, betting is a popular form of the vice. Betting on the athletic contests involves thousands of dollars at every game or big field meet. On the day on which a big game is to be played there is always large crowd of students at the depot to meet the visitors and cover their money before it is bet somewhere else. At the hotels a clerk is kept on these days solely to handle the money that is placed upon the game.
 Frequently students will be so fascin- | afan hU no hlipor hal hat baV will take chances on almost anything the weather, the trains or the number that will be present at d class, the num- ber of examples that a F"pror.'' will give out the day on which quiz will cont, or the chances of a professor "bolting" class. One of the most amusing of the games practiced by the boys betting on an old turnstle that stood by the old railway station. An enterprising youth stole it, put 1t in his back yard. num- bering the arms and offered chances of to 1 on which or the four arms would point nearest to a certain mark on it's being spun. He declared that ne earned enough to pay his college expenses dur ing three years that he kept a book on it.
 Another student had watch of which the chink pin was removed, allowing the hands to spin freely on pressing the stem. and he took odds of three to one on their stopping at any hour the victim might choose. This game the student played during classes even, and at such odds he made quite tidy sum from his | cd watch.
 Some time ago when the new hot water i apparatus was being installed at the 1 gymnasium student ran a book at one l to two on the chances of there being hot or cold water on certain day. As long as the repairs were going on he | got along all right. but soon there be-
 gan to be hot water and the collegian had to give it up.
 l At certain boarding house there is a student who runs a book on a roulette 1 wheel made out of salt cellars and a knife which is played between courses.
 As much as s10 at time is sometimes wagered on this crude apparatus.