Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-18
N GRAW HELD 3
KINGS BUT FAILS
To GET BIC Pot
Giant Chief Unable to Collect
Sl,272 Opponent Wagers on
Three Queens.
VEW YORK, Nov. 1s.-In a pri-
~ vate dining room on the sec.
- ond floor of Delmonico's, Fifth

NEW YORK, Nov. 1s.-In pri-
vate dining room on the sec =.
ond floor Of Delmonico's, Fifth
avenue and Forty fourth street, Pc :
ker game was started on the night of
Nav Is, 1911, the echo Of which was
heard in City Court when stice Nc
Ayov dismissed the action of John
! McCiraw, manager of the Giants, to
recover S1,272 from John A. Bennett,
race horse owner.
While the papers are mute, except
g. so far as a Dromissory note is
concerned, it was learned that three
kings and three queens started all the
trouble Mr.. Bennett who is soma
thing Of a poker player, according to
his own version, believed that he had
counted all the cards in the deck. He
believed on this particular hand, that
Mr. McGraw held only two pairs
kings, and a numeral card. He knew
he himself held three .ueens and be-
neved he had discarded king and an
ace
According to the papers, Mr.. Ben
nett who once had many the lead
ing race horses on the American turf.
met Brandt Walker a Wall street
broker, in a cafe downtown on the
afternoon of May Is, 1911, and they
saluted each others health plentiful
". It was after o'clock that 1t was
suggested that they go to Delmonico S
for dinner. According to affidavits, a
taxicab was called and soon they ar
rived at Delmonico's. After being con-
Quoted to window table on the first
floor, Mr. Walker ordered.
Called McGraw on Phone.
Things were rather dull. Horse rat-
ing was dead and they were talking
about baseball and the wonderful
start the Giants had made. This
brought up the matter of McGraw,
and as both men knew him, Mr..
Walker suggested that they call him
up to have a bottle of wine. Mr.
Walker called Mr.. McGraw by tele-
phone. said Mr.. Bennett, and as thers
had been so much champagne he was
not certain about the hour of the
managers arrival
Someone suggested that we have
little game of poker" said Mr. Bon
nett Il may have consented. Any
way, Mr.. Walker and Mr. McGrlw
and the several friends Mr.. McGraw
brought with him, who were intro
duCed to me as ball players, and my
self went to small room upstairs and
We played poker-at least, they did.
q think I was playing about even
when | got three queens, king and
an ace. l discarded the king and ace
and drew two cards, but got nothing
Of value, Mr.. McGraw, who was sit.
ting at. my left, had two kings,
thought and a small pair. He drew
one card.
Three Kings Broke Up Game.
Therefore l bet. We raised back
and forth until all others had dfebpei
out. | was s1,272 in the pot when
called, and Mr.. McGraw showed three
kings. That brol- up the game
gaye my note to Mr.. McGraw for the
Sl272 and left the place in a taxicab.
40 not recall if it was daylight or
not"
Mr.. McGraw tried several times to
collect the note and could not, and
last August he began action in the
City Court. Mr.. Bennett replied that
ne was incompetent at the time the
note was made, that Mr.. McGraw
Knew 1t and that as it was a gambling
debt he could not be held responsible.
MT. McGraw did not appear when he
case was called, and It was dismissed.