Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-05-21

In an effort TO beat n man who
counts seven small dice so fast that
even he does not know the number
thrown. The dealer In a game, 1t
may not be out OF the way to explain
never leaves the dice on the board
long enough for the players TO count
the spots, unless none except cappers
are IN the game. Then the dealer
pauses a moment and asks the crowd
to affirm his count
Every game has four or five cap
pers and a lookout, The lookout
watches the cappers and the dealer.
too much money lie never bothcrs
himself when u player receives less
than is due him.
The dealer makes great grandstand
plays TO convince the players OF his
honesty. OFTEN a capper will lay
$40 bill on the board and the dealer
will throw 1t into the pile before he
begins to count out the change,
Was that a five or ten?" he
asks the capper after counting out
five dollars.
Ten"
and hve or ten. Thank you"
This shows how careless the dealer
is with money and that he viii take
a players word rather than have an
argument.
A few moments later capper
leave.
Here's your change"the dealer
calls wildly and he nearly has to
leave his game in order TO get the
seventy-fiye cents to its rightful own
er.
Cappers are Of different types. If
they all looked alike, some person
might become suspicious. But at
that, the dealer likes suspicious per
sons, provided they're not too suspic-
ious. A suspicious young man always
believes that he's little wiser than
the dealer and 1t always costs him
all his money TO find that after all
the man who runs the game is pretty
wise.
Cappers usually are old time gamb-
lers, down and out now Some of
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fairs, but no gambler likes to follow
county fairs Some have been driven
to the city by the cleanups Of the
circuses.
Perhaps this one is a prosperous
looking middle aged man. He wears
a light suit, an unpretentious dia-
mond ring and short mustache. He
& ha nh lot
motor car at the garage lie is II
real actor and he earns his SO If
ever a capper did. lie watches the
game as if his house and lot We're
| staked on every turn and he snaps
his fingers angrily and clenches his
fists when he loses.
No. Is the rough, yet honest
working man. When he wins per-
sons who don't know that he per
fected that makeup when he ran a
shell game years ago--when shell
games made money-feel sure that
he will spend his winnings to buy
his wife new Sunday dress. They
don't know that his wife Is the gaud-
| lily dressed woman drinking beer at
nearby table,
Then there's the young nah with
the black felt hat. dented with four
small dents. He wears a soft shirt,
green four-ln- hand tie and black
suit He looks to be about 81 years
old, but whatever his age he was the
dealer for an envelope game with a
circus eight years ago.
The fourth really looks like a
gambler. When persons see him win
they feel that II is his skill in plac-
| ing bets. He looks clever and they
get from him the idea that no man
as smart as he would play game
that wasn't absolutely all right.
Cappers are honest because they
have to be. That is, they never steal
from their employers. A crooked
capper would be ostracized and per-
haps waylaid and beaten some night.
The same goes for the dealer Deal
game. They work for SIS a day and
the winnings go to the man who owns
the gambling privilege. They are
watched by the proprietor and his
friends. Each member of the gamb-
ling crew watches all the others.
| Sometimes dealers have permitted
their friends who We're not cappers,
to win. but after that the dealers
suffered from poor health Usually
the dealers frame up when they say
they will deal against the house. Tho
game goes this way:
A man who says he is a particular
friend of the dealer finds a sucker
who has few hundred dollars.
THE dealer of this game is going
to tip me off as to what number to
play and Wen throw down the boss
and win" the friend" says. "The
boss knows me and | want someone
he doesn't know to do the betting"
| The Sucker" sees a chance to win
a years salary so he takes n hundred
dollars the friend" gives him and
with his own money approaches the
wheel. or whatever game is to be
broken by this combination.
when the dealer touches his head
with his right hand, play the double
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