Show Texas Co College leg Gets Rich Ranch FORT FORT WORTH Tx Tex A AP AP-A AP A cattle ranch won in a a. poker game gam now is contributing to to the education tion of a Texas youth The last legal formality has be been n. n completed by which ownership o of th thus the ranch is transferred to Texas Christian University of Fort Worth Mrs frs rr Butk Burk Burnett widow o of ot the late Inte Captain Burk Burnett deeded the land to the school Captain Burnett named his ranch the int of k not the poker hand of four sixes sizes which brought him the property and elevated him from froma a cowboy to a cattle baron When Then Burnett and Texas were ere young he rode rodo his pony to town one pay day and went vent to a as s saloon loon famed for Its honest gaming tables He sat down at one of ot the honest t tables bIes arid and with several months earnings troth froth punch cow Ing he bought chips for a a. poker game The last chip clinked chinked into the tho po pot and th cowboy captain thought it sounded taps for hi his bank mel But his luck turned and nd he won several hundred dol dol- lars Then an opponent nt who had lost every c cent nt made a desper desperate tc challenge Burnett Ill I'll play my ranch against ag your pile he said sald Youre on on Burnett answered Well We 11 take a deal and a draw On the deal Burnett got two sixes sizes He discarded three carde cards and kept the pair mir On Oti the draw he received two more sixes The four sixes won von the ranch The ranch was the foundation foundation tion than of a large fortune for for forthe the theland theland land located In the Texas pan an- an dIe dle later produced oil and gas as |