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Show JOHN W. GATES AND THE CAB Little Gambling Episode In Which "Watch-Me" Was Able to Say "You Lose" Three Tlmee. A Gates anecdote that never got so far as It deHerved, If It was true, was about his riding down town from a New York hotel In a cab with a stock market friend. "I'll match you," sakl John Watch-me, Watch-me, "to see whether you or I buy this horse and cab from the driver, tf It's his." It waa cabby's, so they matched, and John Watch-me bad the satisfaction satisfac-tion of saying, "You lose." The bargain bar-gain struck, John Watch me had another an-other proposition to offer tn new owner. "Now I'll match you," ho said, "to see whether you keep the outfit or whether you sell It back to cabby at his own price." And once more John Watch me said, "You lose." Here It dawned upon dates' companion com-panion that In the lnnt match John Watch-me had stood no chance to lose, whichever way It went, and ho made remarks. "All Hunt." said John Watch me, "I'll match you to ape whether you or I stand the difference between the buying and the Belling price." For what he had Just sold cubby would only give a buying price that wan Just 1100 lens. This was the Make In the hint match, and for the third time John Watch me was able to say, "You Iohu." |
