The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-02-16
ND Eve better than you again!"

,.. ear punched his small straight and patted his
~. With il while he weighed the chances and
,,ed the frank, open countcnance of 'fBush'' uav
~ hs Youthful outfelder. The Ponies were ON topr
Il he nightly poker game was Just beginning.
r1a Ponies worked at professional baseball for q
s,c. but the only national pastime they recognized
- the ancient and honorable game of draw poker.
!, uorkincmen, they might finish in seventh place
y little while with six teams in front OF them and
=. sslar champions clamoring behipd; but drop them
i, poker lesgue, and tho Ponies would be found
,.,dpe away high UP in the first division.
Thsy we're fine bunch of athletes running to loud
,dcosts the early twenties, cards, dice and single
usdnSs--the most happy go-lucky, devil.may-care
srusdon t outfit in the league.
msfonk' Lawson, who 1attered himself that he
-,,arsd the Ponies, did not believe in CARVING
r,ren With 3 ball club. In his youth, when as he
q of.er remarked he had been E'some pitcher bovs
r.e pitcher" he lad travelled with one married club
nd the experience had lasted him for years. He
h,esd unmarried men, so he signed them.
"Women make trouble, said Monk when expounS
~ bis views to the OF the Pony franchise It
Dis way Mr.. Hagadorn; they keep the men stirred
:, al the time Who's This tells Mrs Who's That
rat somebody else e wife said about her husband the
s,asu get TO scrapping among Themselves and they
hd the men into it, and the first thing you know
nave got grand hornets nest your hands Not
g mine! GlVe me team OF young hellers, aud II
nj you pennant here surei''
Monk got his "young hellers" all carefully selected
/ h be had not yet produced the pennant. The team
ms making money for the ownor the fans liked the
gnppy aggregation, and had hopes that some day
ysnk would lead them out of the wilderness and into
10 promised land-the first division
And now having stalled long enough to give the old
Mississippi river gambler chance to figure out the
ihaon and estimate the valuc Of his tro-toJthe.six
ssight, return to the poker game
~ bet him buck for the draw unused the hand
sas one "ard he raised me five. Raised me five
H.l just about frightened up on me.n McCarter
zrked upon the table and traced an imaginary
ss toward his pile of chips 'Cross shows where the
d Mississippi river gambler shot through the
lnt" said he whmscally, "Dotted lines Indicate
'ihb way they drug him out. All right, Bush I got
b hal How big is your full house'''
"T'm out on a limb, - said Bush sadly. showing The
dds toward McCarter ''I was trying to get by with
no big pair, and you went aud hooked up straight
sle I'm ruined
What don't understand is why you didn't raise
~ pants or Bush instead Of just calling 1t looked
sas as if that should have been the play
Twas new voice, and the poker experts looked up
Esn Instant, Harry McCa1ter snorted loudly and be.
p rliHing the cards.
II you know much about poker, 3" said he sneer-
rgy "It's wonder TO me you wouldn It sit into one
these games in while and teach US how to
4 lE i've cards. We don t bar nobody; it's an open
4 ans, Hogan.
las young man addressed as Hogan, who wss
ed upon the back of the seat across the aisle close
nlowlng the progress Of the poker game, flushed
aialy, but made reply. McCarter's remark had
"a an innocent one, but the gave ugly sting
as words. Hogan was not thick-skinned, and he
'ead resentment, If not open hostility in the short
%acs the players had given him.
lew moments later he climbed down from his
aesi yawned, stretched and moved away toward the
4 .'nng compartment. He was neither tired nor
Sgi but he did not want tho poker party to know
a' Dc had been driven away.
lou handed it to him just right, Harry com
s'Va Dutch Orepdorf. "What does cheap
sA IKE him want to be settin around poker game
~ hs's so tight he wouldn t bet five dollars on
q nnss and an ace! And throrrin' in his CAB, too
- As spent cent on this trips ] tell you, this
ss ssn the cheapest guy I in my life, and
aason was up in the New England league [ saw
4 -' ngnt boys, believe me. Passl"
u sln't coming TO outsider to criticise my
re SAID Adouis in deeply injured tone of voice
sss aeaFt he knew that he should have raised Bush
'usaliy this made him more resentful, 81 played
E -. iof Hush a full house; and, anyway little
ISn. ain t much when they begin raising after the
a. lou got to know when to lay them hands down.
&Ain -"
auy char warmer can tell you how to play a
SAID Bill Craig, ''iust the same as any news
h reporter up IN the press stand tell you how
ss! oali. Barrin Sam Crane, / never any news
M =. reporters yet who could catch pop fly; an l
NJ ,se Que OF 'em steal second with the bases full
ol SKATE Hogan S too stingy to have right TO
q Isy MA ''A 'u' 'e"'' o"' 0''i ''0'N'
@ a9san sat in the smoking room, curled up on the
IN. 'ouch md staring out Of the window at the
h.. Hsn's as they whsked by the flying window.
Ihna was not mind reader, and bis were not
Il n,ss' nevertheless, he knew that he was being dis
X,a " MS fellows, and the thought not pleas
a@t "e eouo guess "hat they we're '"'"'Hs
hogan g first year in professional ball. yet ID
Xmr,'. space Of time he had acquired an unenviaoe
is. as the stingest player in the league: and the