The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-31

Bumped Up Against Something Besides
Hons Talent.

boat an set into another game with
EN- ar just naturally went broke in
about hour. IN I'm that time on,
for about i've years. he spent his time
Eoin' home for more money an fetchin'
{ il back TO Cole an Stilweei.
seen one game they paved. an Il
showed me now a man that's out of his
class can he did up. 'thOut no special
effort Them three was playin' stud
( poker, an Peters. It turned out when
/ the show down come, had aces back 90
back.
cole set next an he had a queen
buried an a seven shown An Still
well had q jack buried an eight
shown
20 course, It We're Peters bet. an he
bet dollar. ike they'd been bettin' to
start, an the others stayed. ON the
next round Peters got some small card
like FIVE
Cole got a ren and StilNeT got a
eight maxim "a pair o Fights in sight
That made it his bet, an he bet the
size 'the pot, bein' three dollars.
'Then. If Peters had ha' been quail
fed TO set In with two such players,
he'd ha' raised It sudden an heavy. He
knowed, % course. thouten Stilwel
had a eight buried. that mis- aces was
good an 'twa'n't no time to have two
players drawin' against en-.
But he had that fool notion o nurs-
in the pot along. thinkin' because his
hand was betteT'n anything IN sight
that he was goin' 10 win the Dot, so he
trailed, an Cole foilered along.
Next round Cole got a queen, Still
wei got 2 jack, an Peters got another
small card like a four OF a six. It were
7anf i'm m
Peters come Ia again an Cole, now
havin' q pair O queens, raised it ten.
Stlwell studied a hit an then ne
seen the raise. Peters knew he could
beat Cole. an he didn't give Stilwell
credit for no mOre'n the eiEhts there
was in sight. sein' he hadn't raised
Cole, SO he made il twenty more TO
play.
cole trailed. an then Stilwell broke
loose. He had jacks up, an he knowed
o course that he had the best hand. So
he put up fifty more
That was more'n Peters had in
sight, but they was piayin table stakes.
50 he called for what he had, an ma
turally Cole wasn't IayiR' down under
them circumstances, so he called.
Peters Buys Again.
"On the last round they didn't neither
on EN- better SO StilweI took the pot
an Peters bought again.
Well, it was just such plays as that.
an good many Of 'em, that KEEP Pc
ters feedin' O them two men for four
or five year, till he'd run through all
the money he cd raise. an he went Of
down the river somewhere an never
went home no more nor WANT never
heard of no more. He'd hs' been all
right II he'd ony knOvNsd in the first
place t he belonged in the mule class
an. hadn' [ entered hisself against thor
oughbreds."
The old man paused. and carefully re
lighted his cigar, which had gone out
while he talked, and he smoked IN 81
lence for a while Presently Jake Win
terbOttom sGoks:
You was sayin' this was before the !
war, wasn't you?' he said.
Yes" said GreeHhut, looking at him
sternly.
Il played right smart on the boats !
myself befO' the war, remarked Win /
terbOttom in quite casual fashion, as
If the fact was not expected to interest |
anybody.
You did, hey" said Greenhut. very 1
sarcastcally, well. all I've got 90 |
say is that a man that's played poker /
nigh onto fifty year, ar pertends 10 |
play UP to the
An L don't seem &c; remember, con /
-inued Winferbottom. as If the other /
were not speaking. I dor't seem to 1
remember no table stake games in them 4
lays. We played a limit game some !
times but when there werenf 10 limit, /
! man didn't get no showdown priyi- /
eye, 'thoUten he put up bis last cent. /
An these here mules you're teIkin' 1
about didn't get no chance to buy more h
hips in the same game.
Old man Greenhut glaTed IL amaze i
nent Then he grew purple and choked.
-t seemed Tor some moments Ss if he
might have a 1T, but after several eff !
.orts he controlled himself sufficiently
10 speak.
Il reckon I was wrong, ne said. Il /
had IN mind sOmeO' them strange crit /,
ers that lives long lives iiGposin on
others. They holds themselves up as
poker players, an pertends TO be, Ar
KANSAS City players. at that. an they
sets IN with ysps I'm somewhere up
lie liver an loses good money likely
didB't ought TO We called en- mules.
Pears to me. now L think Of IT, they
must he full-blOoded jackasses. Chi
ago Inter Ocean.