Show AUTO AUlD POKER IS ISLA LA New York Chauffeurs Get Wise II and Proceed to Bump 0 the Bank Now York Sept 22 Automobile pok poker er or a new form of gambling gamblin in public has struck New York Yort and is spreading from the sea to the YonKers line Along the fhe avenues approaching Sheepshead Bay I Irace race track men mo and boys bo s In groups are ure playing pla Ing automobile poker On Fifth avenue Broadway Madison avenue and andall andali andall all ali auto favored thoroughfares automo automobile automobile automobile bile poker Is indulged in evidencing that the new MW bug has taken hold for the I time being at least I T Phe he game is played thus Stationing I themselves on an auto haunted thor thoroughfare the bookmakers and arid the play players players ers em lay la bets on tho the highest possible hand to be found In the next devil wagon which may amy come honking along The auto comes cornea and passes pus s in a cloud of dust The number say sa Is 1 One equals an ace ac so the hand showed three aces Those who guessed gUf nearest to the value of the hand win If the auto number is i the hand Is two pairs four high In the same s me way the number may ie le veal yeul three or four deuces trays tras or fours fouls The bookmaker takes all bets on any old number but pays 1 a off only to the hold holder holder holder er of the hand But the Uw game is destined to put the bookmakers out of bu n for the th chauffeurs and their friends are next and the game Is being already plugged by them Knowing the number of their own automobile they send their friends along the line to get down a u bet and then comes the automobile the number prominently displayed ed the wily vi iy chauffeur flour sitting silting with apparent unconcern at the tiller One wise chauffeur was obliged to em employ empo employ ploy po his machine in making collections yesterday having touched the bookies from Coney Island to West W st I street His Ius profits were enormous |