The sun., 1918-08-01
WOMEN PLAY POKER
JUST TO WIN WAR
Yes, There Were Stakes, $3.50
Of En-, but Think of
the Kitty.
PLEA CONvINCES COURT
Contestants All Declare They
Used Skill in Game to Help
Out Red Cross.

The lady to the left of the dealer
allowed that she would open, and her
neighbor next door remarked with a
dubious yawn that she would stay just
for the percentage, and the third eman-
cipated woman picked out two spades
from red hand and tempted fate by
way of seeking a flush.
The fourth lady guessed that she had
as good chance to make an inside
straight and the fifth op!ned that what
she had was good enough for subsequent
proceedings. OF course the dealer stuck
around to see il she could pick up a
deuce or a seven to transform a couple
Of pairs into a Washington hotel-which,
az everybody knows. is Just now as full
q house as anybody wants to see.
And, mind you. at this stage of the
game Henry p. Dawson. the great
banker, was so cents ahead. Mr.. Davi-
son didn't know it, but 1t all came out
before Magistrate Doyle in the Jamaica
police court and the public might as
well have the real facts
hey percolated to the surface when a
policeman piloted Gazella Lestowitz.
Minnie Levine. Lena Sherman, Stella
Stein. Rebecca Wolfe and Grace Stein
/ before the Magistrate. Purely by way
| of legal form the cop told the court that
| the ladies were passing the heated term
| at 25 waverly avenue, Rockaway Beach.
Caught with the Cards.
And mercy on u.s." remarked the
court. viewing the smartly gowned CO.
terie with establishment, what have
| they done?'
played poker, your Honor" said the
policeman.
After being duly sworn the club
swinger deposed and said that he was
walking his beat in an orderly manner
| on the afternoon before when sundry
neighbors about the waverley avenue
| address started an anvil chorus that
had for its objective the back porch
wherein the six young women were ex-
hibiting patriotic enthusiasm with red.
white and blue chips.
''They says to me. they says" pro-
| ceeded the policeman. that they had
been trying to sleep and that with such
shouts and back slanpings and carry
! ings on they couldn't get wink
goes over to the porch and sees on
the table $3.50 in good and lawful
| money, legal tenueT, your HONOR, ana III
| the kitty was so cents"
| 'In the what" asked the court.
| The kitty. Your Honor under
stands
The court will take judicial cogni-
zance OF the fact that a kitty is no ami
NAL ruled Magistrate Doyle.
Ladies'" said the court. trying ha I'd to
suppress curiosity as to how a suffrage
| amendment poker tournament was con-
| Quoted, II am glad to see YOU this morn
ing. but I confess that I am surprised
| This Is the first case that I have ever
known OF women being brought in for
Slaying poker. The right I presume
goes with citizenship. At all OF the
women's parties have ever known the
women played merely for prizes"
Playing a War Game.
But, your Honor" said one OF the
| women. I'VE were not gambling. We
were helping to win the war"
i've heard OF winning almost every.
thing else in a poker game" said thu
court. but I never heard Of busting g
salient with pat hand. or outgeperal
ing a Kaiser with n bobtailed flush
The court turned to the clerk.
ct believe that these are terms W,
commonly hear in connection with gam
ing cases."
your Honor recalls the precedent.
correctly" said the clerk.
But we were honest to goodness.
said the women in chorus. We wer,
playing for the Red Cross
Which explains how Henry T. Davi
son. head of the Red Cross. was so cent?
to the good without knowing II wheI
the raid was made.
Il ut was for a good purpose" said thu
| court land Ill dIscharRe Nnu"