The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-10

DON'T QUESTION POKER LUCK


1TleAe- Al n me meantime tHeE WIS
gettin in bets now an again thLt ct I'D
Slingsby's fifty ~ little while.
He didn't pear - make no count
o. that. ar bought another fifty like he
, was buying a cigar. but the second
went quickeT'n the frs, an when j see
him flash his roll for more chips. / says
to myself there was somethin' queer
about it.
Even if he was as rich as he said.
II didn't seem likely t he was goin' to
throw ffty-dollar oils away to amUse
other people. an keep IL up very long.
All Of a sudden I seen a great white
light
1T was slings5y's deal, an Winter
bottom age. ar as soon as Bassett
looked al his cards he come in. Then
Slingsby said he lowed he'd play on
his hand, an he come in. too.
Then Winterhotton1 raised ii $, an
Bsssett looked like he'd Ike to hist 1t
his own 0slf on'y for s2arin' Siings5y
out. / Cd, see what he wanted Winter
bottom to understand, as well as Jake
hisself. But he doesn't raise, and
Slingsby comes in.
Pretty Good Pot,
That made a pot Of nigh SEQ before
the draw, an WintsrbOttom called for
one card. Then Bassett, he took one
card, an Slingsby looked at his hand
for quite a spell an then says with a
sort OF laugh that he reckoned he'd do
Ike the others was coin an take one
hisself.
Then. o course, it were Bassett's
bet, an he bet so. Slingsby seen the
ten. an Winterbottom raised il ten, an
Bassett come back with ten more; an
Slingsby put up his little twenty
Then WinterbottOm raised it twen-
ty, an Bas5ett made it twenty more,
an Slngsby made sood.
Then they dug out their wads, an
Winterbottom raised il fifty. an Bas-
sett made il fifty more, an Slingsby
again made good. o. course they
want really bettin' agin' one another,
Winterbottom an Bassett wa They
was on'y irwin to see how Tar they
could carry Slingsby along without Civ
in him a chance to call, an so close
the play.
wen, it proved 70 be easy to carry
him along. They raised each other five
times, fifty at a time, an Slingsby
mad good each time without sayin'
nothin'. till it come the sixth time
round. Then he says, kind O low an
careless like:
IS Pears like you gentlemen thinks
you've got some pretty good cards, an
I don't know but what maybe you have,
bllt this is kind o. slow. Std o rails
in II in little chunks, let's make it in
terestin'. 'Sposin' We make il a, thou
sand more. An he thTOWed down a
81 900 bill
They Sat Up Straight.
well. say! If he'd ha' slapped them
two men in the face they couldn't ma
set up straighter nor more sudden.
They did a whole O. thinkin' for few
minutes. an then they laid down their
cards. both on 'em, which al avs
/ 'peared to me like mighty good poker,
though I never knowed what any one o
the three men held.
But WinterbottOm looked at Bas-
sett, an Bassett looked at Winterbot-
/ tom, an they got up I'm the table klno
/ O. slow an solemn like, without sayln
nothin' An Slingsby asst EN- II they
want gOin' TO play no more. Inen
J they says no. that he 'peared TO be
/ learnin' pretty fast, an, maybe, didn
need no more instruction.
/ "Slingsby, he laughed. an he says
/ well.-if that's the way they felt apoui
I #. maybe they'd better take their
money back He'd took out what he'd
/ bet, an he pushed the rest over toward
/ 'em across the table
/ We'll, that puzzled 'em for FAIR, an
| Rassett asst him what he meant. an
! Slirgsby says he don't care about takln
money that's made Just like that.
/ You mustn't think, gentlemen, ne
saws. that, Just because a man don
understand draw poker, very well, ne
dent know how to handle cards.
/ Then Bassett seemed to get a CLEAN
o. that same white light, an he lost ms
/ temper.
a You was cheatin, then he says
very nasty like.
"Slingsby was very cool.
| 'Cheatin'. did you say he says
very quick An what do you say about
iit?' ne says, tuTnin' TO WinteTbottom.
] "Winterbottom. ne looked mighty
ugly. an he says, Looks Ike it. Iha'
/ was all he said. but that was enough.
/ Them big arms o Slingsby's shot ouI
/ like piston rods an he grabbed Win
terbottom with his eft hand and Bas-
sett with his right. an just beat en-
together till they vas both limp an
/ heinless. an then ne thTOwed EN- in tnf
/ corner O. the room, an, turnin' 10 me
/ he says:
/ Just see they get their money wher
they feel a little better, an he walks
/ off 10 his state room, an don see
T. him no more.
.They say nobody ever licked Jo'
Rassett in Arkansas City. an 1 hahn
no doubts it's so, but ] Eever heer'd o
/ Slingsby's g.oppin' of there '-Chlcagt
/ Inter Ocean,