The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-10-27

n sitting from percentage alone.
IF they just stayed in the game
long enough we would get it all. No
man ever made money gambling be-
cause the percentage was so great.
We got rs cents out of every dollar
bet and with any way they played
they must finally give it to the house.
I have seen thousands of dollars
change hands in a night. Johnnie
Crockett parted with $4,000 in one
game, for instance"
Faro Prime Favorite
Faro bank, which lured the terri
torial pioneers as no other game, was
the prime favorite with Young. He
was an experienced dealer, a posi-
ton which ELECTED the envy of many
a gambler.
"The greatest thrill I aver felt in
a gambling gamer" he unused. well
it depends upon what kind of a thrill
you mean. l recall one thrill that
lasted for a minute and a half, / was
told afterwards. At that time l
thought it was at least 10 minutes.
1T came when I was dealing in
a game. A spectator made himself
a nuisance and I just asked him if
he would not please step back. In
stantly he jerked a revolver from
each hip pocket and stuck them in my
face and at the same time spat in my
face. I paid him not the slightest
attention, but kept on dealing the
cards without missing a motion. 1
couldn't have helped myself if l had
been a giant. The man saw he could
nn+ not n finhf CO h0 1off Cnon
afterwards some n shot him in a
saloon.
Thrills were a part of the game
of chance. 1t was what drew men
on to their ruin, the desire for the
thrill, and they finally got so they
could not live without it. Winning
meant little to them. The money
had come too easy. They would re-
turn and put up a risk just to feel
the thrill that is peculiar to gamb-
ling"
at was the squarest game ever Of
fered to the gambling public" he de-
clared. There were few Brace
games, as we called the crooked lay
outs, in the old days. Gambling,
when l followed it, was as square as
any business. Cheating was not com
monty ~resorted to and it was not
The gambling houses
made big money as it was. The men
who followed gambling as a business
honestly.
"All the games l ever saw run in
Montana had their limits. You often
hear of the game with the sky for
the limit. They we're never known
out here. 1t may be today in some
places where millionaires gamble for
fun that no limit is placed on a faro
bank game. Old Montana gamblers
were plungers, but not so with the
gambling houses. Small houses
might have small limits. French"
house in Butte had a 500
and l have seen them refuse to
raise it for some fellow who couldn't
win or lose fast enough to suit him
self. The house was not so anxious,
however, to take big risks. 1t had
% protect its working capital and did
so just as a bank today protects its
by keeping closely within
Jules in the handling of it's funds.
lone night 1 watched a young man
named Miller buck the faro bank lay
,ut of French Levy in Butte. The
gamblers system was working to per-
ection. He was winning steadily and
consistently and he kept urging the
lealer to raise the limit. The dealer I
emphatically. One hundred {
dollars was all he would take on a t
Jet. Taunts did not move him. {
Took Both Offers
Finally Miller said, I'll just give !