Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-22
the good old days, and, walking up to

!, the good old days. and, walking up to
the roulette table, said:
Here is a quarter-all I've got in
the world"
He placed it on number II. He won
which means that he received IS fol
l, and his money back, or a total OF
50. This fellow, who was extremely
noisy, wanted to play the same num-
ber for a repeater. He did, and won
again. Now he had 1924. He was de-
lirious with joy. He passed from ta-
BILE to table, placing bet here and
another there. In less than two hours
he had $500.
Stepping up to a faro table, he Of
fered to put it all on the ace to win
The proprietor hesitated a moment.
"Piker!" cried the rag-tag speci-
men of humanity. You take yours
without a murmur, but howl when we
outsiders want chance to win!"
Take the bet!" said the proprietor
to the dealer.
The tramp won. Now he had ST.
800.
Every time he made a winning he
placed it in his hat. He had bills,
double eagles, silver dollars and chick
en- feed-a whole raft Of money. He
offered to treat everybody, and 1t
seemed as though the whole world
was there waiting for an invitation.
He took his hat off, when somebody
struck it from the underside. His
cash reserve spouted upward and for
a second resembled fountain Of coin
and greenbacks. At the same instant
it seemed as though a million hands
materialized and grabbed the mVney
out Of the very air. No magician ever
made a valuable watch disappear 80
quickly as did that money. In an in
credible time the place was empty.
The proprietor, paralyzed with aston
ishment, calculated:
Its disgrace to have a thing like
that happen in my house! It's rob-
berry, that's what it is! 1t was my
money, and now don't see no chance
| W 6el IL UdSh uo HhoiS'
In the days when Cheyenne, Wyo,
was the headquarters for the cattle
men Of the northwest, gambling ran
wide open. When the cowboys came
to town they made things hum. Mon
ey grew on trees. The gaming spirit
was in the air.
| dealer standing behind roulette
table one night suddenly motioned the
proprietor. A few moments later he
was paid off, 1t is customary to pay
gambler his salary at the end of each
day. Many of them have the faculty
of losing it back over the very table
where they know the odds are against
the player.
In roulette there is a distinct per-
centage in favor Of ''the house." Ev-
erybody knows that.
| This dealer took a seat In front OF
the table and in the course of few
hours had won $50. Then he stopped.
He would pass in and out dozen
times a day, play a little here and
some there, but always he would bring
up in front of the roulette table, and
more often than otherwise left 1t
winner. His luck was amazing. He
started bank account. He was saw
| ing his money to get into business
with, he said.
| He won 80 steadily that it made the
proprietor Of the place shiver every
time he came in.
| One day, while the ex-dealer was
playing, an old man dropped in. and,
glancing around the room for a mo-
ment, asked:
| "Who runs this placer"
| "I do" answered a bewhiskered in
dividual who was watching his former
| employe rake in the cash.
will you do me the favor to tell me
where you got that wheel?" he asked,
| pointing to the one that proved such
a hoodoo.
| "I know it's a Jonah. That fellow
over there wins all the time"
| "So?" said the stranger.
He walked over and watched the
man lay his bets.
Returning to the proprietor, he said,
as he passed out a card:
"I represent this house. which, as
you see, deals in gaming devices.
take it that the man sitting at the
wheel makes a killing every day."
He does, stranger, to the tune Of
| fifty or a hundred"
For a thousand I can tell you how
to bust his luck and make him look
the living picture Of remose. You
would have to agree to purchase new
wheel from me, also"
"If you show me, I'm game"
TITS a bargain" said the drummer.
Walking over to the wheel, he wait
ed until the ball dropped, stopped 1t,
and turning to the proprietor, asked:
"See anything strange with that
wheel?"
mo"
"Well, see. there are two nineteens
and two twenty-threes on this wheel.
They are unusual numbers-so that
the fellow who plays them has about
the same percentage in his favor, on
those numbers, that you have when
man plays on a regular wheel. we
made this wheel more than thirty
years ago. 1t was sold to house by
a couple of sure thing men. who al
most broke the outfit. Then we lost
track Of It,"
The ex-dealer had noticed the dou-
BILE numbers, and therein was the Sc
cret of his luck" How the numbers
had escaped attention so many years
is one Of those mysteries Of gambling
than can never be explained.
When Seattle was the big noise In
the northwest gambling world, and the
primeval forests were closer to her
doors, some big games were played.
One night a stranger stepped into
one of the principal houses and took
seat at a faro table. An hour later he
had lost more than $1,000. The pro-
prietor sent him a fifty-cent cigar. A
faw moments afterWard the stranger