The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-02-03
Wizards The 81
Easiest OF Marks
Their Proficiency win a Deck OF
Cards Is chlld's Play Compared
with That OF a Card Sharp.


everybody In the smoking room thanked
him. The little fellow who had been to
Europe leaned back I'm his chair and beck
oned Tor the waiter. The unobtrosive man
over IN the corner OF the cafe SIMPLY
growlcd.
hands make me tired. he growled
whenever | hear those lurid tales OF
how some magician stacks the cards on
the professional player want to retire
copiously. | have heard the tale a hum
dred times, and never yet encountered
magician who ever beat "a card player at
poker outside Of his press agents inn
agination II makes lovely tale to tell
the week before YOU get to town to per-
form, but I've taken lot Of hrst-cllss
magicians into camp, and they never even
suspected that was sharp.
III | couldn't play with the pasteboards
better than the hest card king that ever
happened along I'd be lying In lonely
grave fun of lead. Why the easiest
money | ever made has been of those
now you see IT, now You don't VIII,
boys. They feel SO sure that they can't
be cheated that they Will stand for any
with club, | can do all that front and
back .palm.nG with one hand tied behind
me II that was all could do | would
have to go to work. The real clever card
player begins where these mi blture KEEL
lars leave off,
"Of course. in my business. I use tho
pass. The pass was used in gambling
when the best thing q magician could do
with cards was to tell fortunes. That
with me is just a sort of side issue. Some
times II makes my work little easier.
The real trick il knowing how to shuttle
the cards and things like that"
At the gamblers suggestion pack or
cards was sent for. 1t was a fresh deck,
| and the revenue stamp was still in place
| The cards were removed from the case
! and shuilled. Then they were passed to
the gambler. Suppose" said he. that
| we are playing a ve-hauded deal. |
want to win the pot Now, here are the
! cards"
| While he had been talking he had idly
ripped" the pack several times. Now he
dealt five hands four OF them face up.
/ The NTH hand lay face down before him,
Now" he began, number one has
! three kings. a seven of hearts and six OF
/ clubs lie wants two cards.
| Two cards were dealt face down.
Here" went on the gambler. ARE three
Jacks, a ten spot and an ace. He wants ,,is
| two cards" The cards were dealt. The
third hand drew to pair of queens, the
fourth to aces, while the gambler showed
a pair of threes. He took three cards,
Number two" he said, might have
held out that ace to see what he could
do toward getting another ace. held
that on top" He turned ,,t the top cara ara
and there was an ace. This being the
case / had to deal the second caro-
through the game thus The thumb be-
ing on the top of the pack, the gambler
dealt several cards each time drawing
down the top card and returning 1t to
place as soon as he had caught the edge
of the second,
To get back to the deal, NO, lp'h
two cards. lie drew two sevcns lhal
makes him n full house. lie Will bet
lot No. . did not hold the ace out, SO
he gets two skies" The cards were turned
and there were two skies. The pair OF
queens became three queens and two
fours. The fourth man had been given
another ace, but no pair. Thht maze
, three fun houses and pair of threes
with the gambler drawing to PAIR
Pausing a moment to let the prospective
betting appeal to the Imagination Inc
gambler reached for his draw,
II guess" he drawled this little pail
Of threes will exempiity poker I've LICK; AN, AN,
! the draw over and there were two more
threes. ,,-...
easily done when you know how. No
every man can do IL as well as ! hav,
done Many professional players, even
are unable to fix more than one or two
hands without unduly delaying the deal
l am of the third generation, and I
comes natural to me to draw out hand'
quick hand and eye, but the memory
! must be trained and puickness at hgure'
While | was running the cards hat
not only to fix the sequence of five hands
of five cards each, but add to thos'
twenty-five cards the fourteen cards in
, volved in the draw, this including the un
, More than that, my knowledge of th'
) cards was obtained entirely from thu
t small index in the corner as they ran
past me the first and second times. Sub
scuuent rips were for the purpose ~
dropping the cards in their proper places
I'm the deck.
II can also drop the cards want to tn
bottom Of the pack. After | have serve'
three of the cards and two from the TOT
. of the pack. on the draw ! get the othe
Y two cards and | can reacn down 70
! them without any one being the wiser
t even though they may be watching me
Take this hand, for instance"
| The gambler dealt five cards to himesli
10 "a ha IA n ~,
, player would be.
e Did you see anything wrong? No
a Well, three of those cards were from tn
= top and two from the bottom. Take
!. / another way | am dealing ana com
t across the ace | need. deal the secon
!; card until 1t comes to me, and then
t "In dealing second cards I do not dro
b the top card more than the sixteenth q
g an inch. That keeps the tint of the sec
ond card from showing. Crude profes
q SIGNALS sometimes drop half an inch, bu
, In that case detection Is easy II any on
r is looking for trouble.
: THE card manipulation on the stage ha
to attain a certain proficiency. lie ha
I the eyes OF the audience on him cor
!, stantly, and must be sklllful enough I
: escape detection to degree. But hoy
T many card players have you seen VIII
give you a glimpse OF the cards on
I palming trick, or who tumble the pass
3 In some games a professional who fun
y bles the pass gives tho coroner a ehanc
! to earn fee.
I, binary players may gain certain sma
!. advantage by his little tricks. He ma
i be able to hold out an ace against tn
I time when he needs IT, He may eve
be able to stack the cards a little. Bu
n when you hear OF the magician who skin
u the professional card player at his ow
" gamel That Is whore any good playC
enjoys "A laugh. Tne card PIANIST VIII
can skin a good gambler Is a better gan
bling trickster than his opponent, an
Il that Is all there Is to II.
q 1.-THE only magician I know who's
a work is as EXPERT as n professional play
a or is "A little chap who is so good this
= he cannot get job. His work is
r clean cut that II will deceive anotht
70 magician. The trouble is that II take
~ n magician to appreciate his work, II
l. card palmer requires no such finish. an
q seldom acquires II. lie Is Just a car
= palmer. and like all OF the wise peopl
- the easiest to get away with.-E. w. S
- in New York Commercial Advertiser
IS women who Sell Automobiles.
l. As society women have invaded
n many lines of business in recent years
Il Is not surprising that one of that ella,
= has become an agent for automobile
n Miss Singer of the well-knOwn LarCl
II mont family of that name has lately gOr
into the business, acting as an agent ii