Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-03-25
had SURE THING
u AT STUD Poker
Wealthy New Yorker Said to
/ Have Cleaned Up an In.
menSe Sum.
Victims Finally Got WISE" and
Evsned Things UP Slightly BY Ad'
ministerlnq a Beating After Ex.
posing His Game.

New York.-A group of screen mag
Mates and music publishers alous
Broadway has been fieeced ont OF
$4,000 by wealthy manufacturer
with deck Of marked cards. whom
they admitted 10 their private games.
He was finally detected and thrown
out Of the house Of the man VINO
caught him. The World prints the
story, calling the tieecer Mr.. Trimmer
and the other man Mr.. Screen. II as
serts il has their real names.
For considerable time n group vi
twelve or fourteen men. all OF ample
means, have been playing stud poker.
The Wealthy Victims.
There were Mr.. Screen, Il big picture
promoter ana the husband OF one OF
the prettiest and most talented stars;
My. Flickers, OF equal rank III ceilu-
loid productions; Mr.. Circuit, who
owns n flock OF thenters Mr.. Rag2,
who receives immense royalties from
his song compositions, and others quite
as well known ia their respective
fields.
Last summer. at Far Rockaway and
Arverne, their ranks were augmented
BY MIR. Trimmer. He is II uanutnc.
tuer ON an immense scale OF a certain
article of women's wear, and Is gen
orally known as Il millionaire.
They Thought II Was Luck.
Mr. 'rrimulur'S 'nurnnHy mex -
the other players called it, was notice
able from the very start. In one ses-
sion, for instance, which began on
a Saturday night and continued into
Sunday, he cleaned up more than $50
go.
The daring of Mr. Trimmer's play
was what Interested the others more
than anything else. He would make
bets against seemingly impossible
odds--and win them.
Mr. Trimmer always knew what the
other fellows secret card was. when
he was the dealer and he always won.
Also he always knew, when he held
the deck, what card his opponent
(Trimlner) was going to get next, for
his cards were what Is known to gam
blers as READERS"
A Transparent Mystery.
The design on the back OF them
which meant nothing to others told
him exactly what denomination each
pasteboard was
At last suspicion intruded, and one |
Of the other men at party which
Trimmer had arranged pocketed n
deck OF Trimmer's cards and took |
them to a professional gambler for ex
animation.
They're readers" said the profess
,N0nal. AT the corner of each card Oh
the back, was "A design composed of
four tieur-delis-the three leafed
flower OF France.
If the right hand petal of the flower
at the upper right hand of the group
was heavily shaded the card was an
ace. II the center petal OF that par
tlcular flower WAS accentunted, it was
king # the shading was on the lei |
hand petal it was Il queen.
Even Deuce Is Protected.
There We're four flowers. each with
three petals. The shadngs, therefore,
stood for L. different cards according
to where they were placed, these cards
ranging down from the ace to the
deuce. If no petal WAS shaded III.
card was the deuce.
An exposure was planned at
Screens house. There were eight
players. Trimmer ON Il few hands off
square cards lost $3.50 Then he
produced deck Of his sort. As soon
AS Screen saw the marked cards he
exposed The cheat Ia his guests and
proceeded 10 beat Trimmer M. winding
up by throwing him out Of the house