Show FARO IN TilE OLD DAYSo Aged Lookout Tells How the Tiger Was Pursued When 1 Zion Was in Her InfancyMany Big PlaysHow a I Traveler Lost His Urnbrella by Taking Pity on a Sure Thing Man I I 1 I One afternoon during the convention of cattlemen a visitor dropped Into one of the big games on Commercial street I After purchasing chips to the amount of 1000 he was given a Unlit of 50 to cases and SIQO to doubles and an hours exciting play followed The visitors luck was land l-and bad by turns but ho finally struck an easy deal and pulled out with 1500 to the good The play naturally nat-urally atti acted unusual attention on I the part of hangerson and when the 1 strange sport had departed with his winnings the old lookout who enjoys en-joys the distinction of being the first man to operate a bank in the city so long ago that the date has been forgotten for-gotten delivered himself of the following follow-ing Huh But you pikers give me a I pain You do for shore Here comes i a stiff from Chicago who plays a hundred hun-dred t1 doubles and fifty t cases an1 you pore critters crowd aroun the I layout four deep an rubber till youll all have cricks In your necks fer a week Guess f some duck d float inhere In-here an drop live hundred on the high card you geescrs d all drop dead in a pile I aint wrltln policies on the proposition that you wuddent anyway I any-way You lemln me o a Iqt o rail birds mum off the fence backwards while an 01 plug Is doln a mile In 2Q flat Your just that fur bchln GAMES IN THE OLD DAYS I a i F twussent that that a good many o you geesers are by no means ready t6 cash In Id like t take you I back tf the 70s when faro bank was faro bank in this camp Youd all have l do a nervefood stunt thought before I be-fore youd dare t take a chance at the strain In then days the boys wussent all huddled together on a little alley with cops thlckern boosters aroun a stud poker game either We wus the people peo-ple then We wus shore an before you copper that jusL ask some o1 the oldtimers It goes as it lays too The geesers having accepted all this in the proper spirit the old lookout look-out continued Right down t the las turn o life Ill never forget a play that was made I over at Bill Hickss place on Main street In the 70s Jus after the completion com-pletion of the Union Pacific J3veiy body had money in them days an when you bought a stack o whites you I had t shove a cool hundred acrost the green with no change back An as t I lml tswell there wussent any pro vidln the player showd a wad t go I o SURETHING MEN BUSY Until the dectives made it too hot I for em back at that time there usa I us-a gang o surething men doublln both ways out o Ogden They worked threecard monte an the shells an I copped off all kinds o money Well I as fas as theyd get five or ten thousand thou-sand ahead the leaderd drop down here t Hlckss place t buck the bank An talk about nerve Well that duck had Jt an thats no pipedream I either Manys the time Ive seen him call the turn for a thousan an once I remember he beat cathop for seven thousand five hunred But he wu sent particular stuck on callin turns an his big plays wus usually made on the regular basis I wua dentin at the time o his biggcs I play an I want to remark In passln 1 I that fez two hours that night every turn meanta fortune one way o the l other I except when there wus a standoff stand-off I TOOK LIMIT OFF Jack Billings that wus tho fellers I nameshowed up one cvcnln1 about 9 I oclock sin1 after geltin tho cases bought 5000 worth 0 blues an asked me what limit Id give him Hicks the owner o1 the bank WUK out but I I I sent fez him an when ho sa1 the checks Billings d bought an discovered discover-ed Unit the surethlngor had 55000 more back ho jerked his thum toward the big lamp that hung about three feet over the table an1 said he guessed we could move the gUm if it got in the way I wayBillings smiled kinder insinuating like an I hope I may never hoi bet tcrn deuces up in a game o1 draw again If he didnt stack his checks up an bet the whole works the first rattle rat-tle out o the box He coppered the king fez 260oll showing up in the door after the ahume an played the jive open with the other twentyfive hundred The turn wus king five vn he had whipsawed us for 5000 on the first play I glanced at Hicks whod taken the lookout chair but he seemed unconscious an the game went on HAD 30000 OUT Its a wast o valuable time o course l tell you pikers about the balance the game but many wus the lime fer the next two hours when 10000 changed hands on a turn Although Al-though luck wits on the side o the bank In the windup Billings had over 30000 In chips to the good at onetime I one-time an certainly had both Hicks an me wonderin what wus comln next I But then his luck changed un he went down the line like a turtle allppln off a wet log When he got down to 6000 he made two bets of It an I whipsawed whip-sawed Mm fer the pile He then closed the cases got up an ordered a brandy an soda an asked Hicks to loan him twenty on a gold handled umbrella Hicks gave him the sawbuck an he went out HAD PREACHERS UMBRELLA After he wus gone we fell to exam lain the soak an there we foun on the hanle the Inscrlpshun Presented to our belover nastor Rev SoandSo I still remember the name but wont repeat it by the members of his congregation con-gregation We looked at each other fer a moment mo-ment an Hlclcs then said Well a galoot as would cop a umbrella front a skypilot ought to lose his money 1 said amen I MADE BIG WINNING You couldnt keep Billings down though an1 a few weeks laterl1e dropped in with only 2000 and had 17600 to the good when he quit He then said he guessed hed take the umbrella an it was passed over to himWhen When we asked him how he come by Ithe laughed an said one o his men gave the preacher the double cross fer It on threecard monte The grafter he said wus rigged up as a cowboy an handled the cards so awkward awk-ward that the preacher took pity on him an tol him he wussent slick ernufC to work the game Then the skypilot cllscovcred that the card to be picked out wus slightly torn an Jus t show the ungodly cowboy that he wus a dead one he bet twenty an won This made the grafter hot in the collar leastwise he let l on he wus I an he bet the preacher that he i couldnt do It again The parson put up all his money an his umbrella an when he picked up the torn card again It wusscnt the right one U1cs times has shorely changed added the old lookout as he lighted I light-ed a cigar but there always will be plkeis Theyre 111 mos as sure a crop as suckers |