Show HE HAD FOUR QUEENS AND WON Chicago inter Ocean ea Al All the members of te the Reone Reformed Poker Players cub club were In a a sad state ot of mind The old Tennesea had just announce announced his of going over to his Michigan peach pech orchard for forte forthe te the summer the torme re red hot jack jackpot Jackpot pot taker of Laete Lafayette md Ind said h hwa ho wa wag ot ott for a a ret rest ad and te the others wore were aso also pulling out for the tho hente heated term The last Jast session however brought out te the usual grind ot of poker history Thee There w was a stranger at the table In Inthe Inthe the ce cafe ad and ha had it not ben been for his rather brightening understand the why of the gloom I ter there have been any story This ma man was the first to tel toll tolla a a story I wItnessed a remarkable game gathe just justa a few tew week weeks ao ago spoke the Flur Four old crones happened to meet at the house o of n a mutual frend friend of mine No I want In the gme game he ha heade ade added a as he noticed Inquisitive loks looks They just dropped in and naturally enough b gan to talk over old times g when they were ere young stes store Somene Someone remembered how they playe played penny ante with for for chips ad and a dry gd goods box In the bk back she shed for a a table ad and It sigU lr that somene someone suggested that it would b be a good Ide Idea to tr try It over again an anThe The host gt got a dek deck of cards ds ad and h hi buton button ba bag ad and proceedings were Inaugurated The butoI buttons upon beIng divided in five parts gave eh ehman each man sixten sixteen ad and It wa was a sure source of much amusement when one of the pary party ransacked his pockets without finding that number of cents or In indeed ded deed anything but a nickel Bet Any Old ThIng The bantering rule resulted in ech each man showIng up his pie pile ad and the result was that five substantial business men could only rake up a Itte little over 2 be between tween them The gme game then proceeded After a afew afew few hands were playe played the host pIcked up a new hand hand ad and remarked that he wished ho he were playing sure enough poker The others sd said they were wi will willing Ing ing to make I It the rea real thing for that that hand anyway a and te the deer dealer threw up five cards containing all the sut suits without a pall pair and nine high and sd said they could fight It out As there wa was no money in the party it wits decided to use simple acles articles py of identification a as markers for the amount amounts each pla player er should bet ad and then the brIdle wa was taken of off and the galant gallant stee steed galloped forth on un tin bounded field Before the drw draw the host bet 25 ad and put up a cigar a as 8 a maker marker The next man raise raised I it 25 6 ad and shove shoved in a key ring a as the or of 50 o So o It wet wont around un until til tH there thero wa was a a conglomeration of the various tings things men cry carry In ther their pock et eta on the table No One Drew When they got ready to drw draw cards the expectant dealer wa was amae amazed that none of the tho wanted ay any Then did the betting begin furiously mew anew ad and everything the player players had wih with them whoso whose disappearance would not cause interrogation on the pat part of their wives ives wa was put up a as marker markers for tor their respective raises At lat last the host ha had the fin final say and he to cal call He reache reached out and picked up the empty col coal scuttle That gocs for 6 60 he exclaimed queens hoarsely and I cal call Ive Ive got four The other player players laid do down 11 re no a nine fun full on five fives a a seven ful full on kings and four tens tens The wIn wInner ncr ner swept te the maker markers Into te the coal scuttle and the ge game broke up The next day his antagonists came aund around to his office ad and reeme redeemed their mark marker er era The ma man who ba had caled called wih with the coal scuttle receive received ove over from eh each ot of them By the way chIppe chipped In another fellow talking about poker I once held four tens pat in a a ge game I v was playing in SIoux City while I w was on the rod road One of ie the men was drunk drunk He had bon been plunging aI all the time betting high whether he ha had anything or not and I wa was waiting for a bIg hand band be because cause cause I knew that as sn soon a as It came cameI I could brek break hIm hImy My y four tens came just at the rIght time There w was a jak jack pot ad and I had the firt first say say I opened It gent gently say for 25 because I knew that the drunk drunken en fellow would come back at me He did wih with a big rag raise I just caled called him because I wanted more play after the dw draw I looke looked over oyer my hand slowly as though In deep thought ad and the then caled called for one car card cardIll U 11 Ill draw to the strength or of my had hand gl gi me thre three cards cards said the bozy boozy man manThen manThen Then I mae made a a hevy heavy bt bet and and he be bece ce came me harer harder We kept at each other back and forth until an all his hs money was on the table I showed down my four tens He skinned out four queens He had drw drawn two more queens to his a |