Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-07-19


(, factors I'm New Orleans, Dick Dare
r an Harry Masten, they called each
+ her. both on EN- bein' high rollers
rr fair an frst-class players.
/ They sure had to be good players
for TO set in that long with Bangs an
Hawthornc, Bangs bcin' the clickest
dealer there was On the river. an
T Hawthorne understandin' a bluff bet
I, rim most. O. course the two factors
bon' gentlemen, played straight. but
ihey was 10th on en- slick enough 10
know whcI Bangs was s,ackin' the
cards, nj they was both on 'cm con
siI'abIe KILLED their own sells when
1t come tC bluff. so they want more II
two OF three thousand loser between
/, 'em Len Ellison come add an Mas
itrr seen him.
| Here comes the man we want ne
SAYS, an he calls to Ellison to come
/ take n hand. 50 Ellison he says ne -
;, agreeable. p'vidin' there want no Cd
lection.
| Those I was loOkin on. an there
was arayi some I d stand rouhu
!watchin' Il good game, had been sort
20 struck afOrc that. when they seen
the stakes. f'r the ante was TWO chips
call five every time, an the chips was
yellow boys, like | said. Feared Ike
that was some stiff. but Ellison want
satisfied
HE didn't say nothing but Settin
next to tn age on the first deal ater
he set in, he straddlcd, maxim 1t
even hundred to draw cards. even II
nobody sh'd raise.
"Rangs was dcaIin.' an Dav" had
put up the ante. but when Mastcn,
set next to Ellison, seen his hand NJ
,thruwcd it down. Likely twas too
good to be true. | don't know nov
that was, but | knew he'd been loi.
able leary about playin' when Bangs
dealt.
"Hawthornc, havin' next hand come
in 'thouten word. an Bangs studied
Il spell an then raised 1t hunhre'.
dave dropped an Ellison raised la x.
Then, Hawthorne tra'lcd and BarSs
made it still another hundred.
ELLISON looked at him kind o sharp
an seen the raise thOutcn 'goin' NJ
further, an Hawthorne saws he reck
ons it's time f'r him to be doin' some
thin. so he raises. an Rangs traliS.
Then Ellison throws down his cards.
I He'd lost four hundred thouten a
play, hut he want no more concerned
nor IL he'd busted a button ofn his
shirt. 'Peared like he'd only been slZ-
IN on EN- up. to sec what they was
liable for to do. an he want ready 10
play ag'in no crOsSfirc, not yet, ne
want. | don't member who took
that not. bein' as everybody knoWed
il didn't make no difference between
the two pals.
when Dave dealt Ellison put up
the regular ante. two calls i've. an
kind O. looks at MaSten to see II he'd
straddle. an when he didn't Ellison
looks sort O. disgustcd. but he don't
say nothin.' He want no hand to tax
much.
There want nothin' didin' on that
deal. an Ellison drawed his ante down
an took the deck f'r deal. That was
tho way they played afcrc jackpots
was invented amt putin up no
iargyment about it. I'm Just telilh
you what was did.
| well. Mastcn antcS, an hawthorne
straddlcs. an Ellison gives out cards.
'Pearcd like h. d done tol'able well
too, for everybody come in round 10
Hawthorne an he raises il hundred
an they all come in again. but nobody
raises lack.
That made a even thousan In the
not atore the draw. an there wa'
considablc Excitement among them I
was IoOkin' on. lat them I was play
in was as cool as if they'd ben play
in f'r marbles.
"Op the draw Masten takes one
card. Hawthorn stands pat. Bangs
takes two an Dave one. Then Ellison
looks round sort q like he was S!zin
up what they was all liable fr I"
have, an then he says:
J. 81 reckon full amt much goo"
this time an he takes two cards. diS-
cardin' pair of trays. an thrown
'pm face MP OH the table SOS they
cd sec twan't no hot air he was CIV
in EN-.
" taint never Understood rightly
! WIZ twas I ne didn't raise back af"rc
!, the draw with pat full. but ! reckon
bed mistrristcd a pat hand an mad"
TN his mind aforchand 20 split his
full. Anyway that's what he did. an
I've saw him play pcCoo!iar poker n
COOL many times.
90 course. twas hawthorn'a hrst
bet an he bet the size a the pot
that helm. as I said. $1,000. Ranks
STAYED q course. hcin' as he monSAt
be useful case of anoth eros cut
nut Dave dropped and Ellison skih'
his hand down. SLOW an careful.
Then he reached fr an inside P"FH-
If an pulled out fat wallet an
counted out Il ven one th''Isand dol
lar bills Sprcsdin' I'm out smooth oh
the table he p'tCnd"d to study tr
spell an then lad EN-. mighty d"'lh
: ~ra:e. into the pot. Tn Ma'''h
folded.
That made just SrCh riay a l
wa. teIiin' about. as d pIi tbs" PIX
: Crs Z rlavs now into forty hts
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