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Historian Frank G. Menke is centuries out of the way when he claims (TIME, Feb. 27, p. 28) that "the U. S. game of craps was named after a French rake, Count Bernard Mandeville Marigny, who introduced the parent European game of hazard to New Orleans a century ago. He was so disliked by the natives that he was nicknamed 'Johnny Crapaud' (French for toad). The pastime became known as 'Crapaud's Game,' then 'Crap's Game,' finally . . . craps...
...game of craps was named after a French rake, Count Bernard Mandeville Marigny, who introduced the parent European game of hazard to New Orleans a century ago. He was so disliked by the natives that he was nicknamed "Johnny Crapaud'' (French for toad). The pastime became known as "Crapaud's Game," then "Crap's Game," finally-after it spread up the Mississippi and trickled throughout the country-craps...
...Dean charged Richard C. Evarts, City Solicitor, with insulting organized labor along with Mgr. John A. Ryan and Senator David I. Walsh when he spoke against the proposal Friday. Evarts, Landis said, had labelled proportional representation, a feature of Plan E, as a "crap game," after Ryan, Walsh and labor groups had been forthright in the approval of the referendum...
...Philadelphia court, Isaac Thomas admitted having participated in a crap game. The judge handed him the evidence -a pair of dice-and commanded him to roll them. Thomas threw a five, a three. Sentence: eight days...
...were as bewildered as the challenger. Men who were lighting their pipes missed the whole thing. By the time those in the rear rows had jumped onto their chairs to see over the heads of those who had jumped onto their chairs in front, the match looked like a crap game. In the ring everyone seemed to be crouched on the canvas. Referee Arthur Donovan was counting-three, four, five-over the dazed challenger as a towel came sailing into the ring. Picking up the towel (an outmoded symbol of surrender, now illegal in New York State), the referee threw...