The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-19
WENT AGAINST TRADITION.
Player Called Pat Hand and Dis
gusted the Colonel.

! Cambridge Springs (Pa.) Correspondence
New York SUM
They were going to have a quiet little
game. and they asked the colonel to sit
/ in
NO" said he Il haven't played a
| played 1 had a little bout with such an
| internal idiot Of a player that I got
CisguSted and swOre off cards forever.
why, say! il makes me boil even now
I to think of it. Positively, that man didn I
know any better than to call a pat hand
1 on a-but let me tell you about it.
"A social group of us used to have a
| tOlerable snug little weekly session in
Judge Bakers office up my way. and
/ was in the habit Of playing a pretty
nerVy game. and scared the bows out
many a time when they had me beaten
! TO standstill if they'd only had the
sand to investigate, or perception enough
to discover that I used a very hard cheek
in my playing. But they hadn't, ana CHey
simply declared, session after session,
that tlSey never saw such luck stick by
a man like IL did by me. Simply nerve.
my boy. And cheek, with few dashes
OF sand.
one night old Bub Ketchum. a good
natured lumberman from up the river
and a client OF Judge Bakers, was in
town, and the judge invited him to come
around to the office and, If he didn't care
to play. look on at the fun. Old Bub
was a level-headed man on most things.
and ? wai& to remind you right here that
he didn't know blame thing about play
ing draw. Not a blame thing.
He showed up at the rendezvous. but
didn't care to play. he said, and so he
sat by and watched the game with as
much interest as a lunkhead about draw
could be expected to watch game that
was played on the stiffest kind Of cor
rect principles.
about 10 o'clock one of the boys had
to go. and Old Bub said he'd as leave
take his place as not for few hands
just to keep up the interest, and we let
him come in. ] had been showing more
nerve and cheek than usual onto the
boys that evening and I really felt sOr-
roy the way they had been laying down.
1--WE played around two or three times
after Old Bub sat in. without anything
very stirring having happened, and then
we fell into a jackpot IL went around
four or five times. and was nice and fat
when Judge Baxter opened II.
'Od BUb and two of the boys stayed,
and when it came to me | whooped her
up some. The judge stood the raise. So
did Old Bub.
How many do you want?' said the
judge, who was dealing.
Don't want any, said l when II came
to me.
GOSH said old Bub. biting off a
chew from his plug. He does, don't he2,
81 Just laid back in my chair and
smiled.
one chip. anyhow just to show that L
amt ashamed of my openers
7 chip along!' said Old Bub, tossing
in his bone.
Lets me out. said Judge Baxter,
throwing down his hand
90 See your five said Old Bub. and five
better
what exclaimed the Judge Don't
YOU know anything, Bub? He's got pat
hand
'1.Cosb' that's so. amt IT.? said Old
Ill - in OF hnr On
d" Five better than YOU said l. smiling
vet for Of course the proper thing for
Old Bub to do now. If he hadn't been
such an informal idiot about the game,
''But that old ram didn't seem to have
any sense at all. he didn't and came back
at me as stiff as ever. and lifted me five
why. Bub. you log-choppin' old fool
you,' exclaimed the Judge Don't YOU
know anything? He's standing pat against
you
. Gosh" said Old Bub. grinning like
the chump he was. He is. amt he2 May
be 7 hadn't ought to bet that time
" This unsODhisticated old chap is goin
to make trouble here I said to myself
If this sort O. thing goes on. He don't
know enough 10 lay down. I'll lust settle
him right now Then ] chucked bundle
on the table and said. smiling like every
thing: Raise YOU fifty
- That's right colonel said the Judge.
nodding at me approvingly. Shut the
durn old mutton head off and save his
money for him.
" GOSH exclaimed Old Bub. I've jest
got fifty here that I'm willIn' to
squander Jest 10 learn this game Colonel.
said he Il call YOU
Judge Baxter and the rest were natur-
ally struck dumb by Old Bulbs reckless
ness SO was T.
What did you ketch. eolonel?' said
Old Bub.
Pair O. deuces' said T. chucking EN-
down on the table. Disguised with such
an idiotic PLAYER.
Gosh" exclaimed Old Bub. That's
durn sight better hand than ] thought
you hadi 7 had a pair O. treys"
THAT was too much. Ny indignation
broke all bounds.
a pair o. treys" 7 almost shouted.
Here I've been sitting an hour with
man who don't know any more about
the game than to call a pat hand on
pair o. trevsi That disgusts me with
draw. and I'll never play another game
q remember looking back as 7 STROBE
out of the room. The judge and the rest
o. the boys sat there sim IN open
mouthed amazement. and the grin on
Old Bulbs face was eXasperatinR TO see
as hc gathered in the pot And 7 re-
member hearing him say as / banged
the door:
:" Them pat hands is dangerous things.
Mostly
so. I'm obliged to you. boys. but youn
have to excuse me. 1 haven't played a
game in ten years" said the colonel