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...evening in late September there was a stud-poker and high-spade game in the apartment of one James Meehan. It lasted 24 hours. Meehan did not play, but received a percentage for the use of his premises. The players were Arnold Rothstein; George McManus, brother of a Manhattan police Lieutenant, Meyer Boston, shrewd Manhattan "operator"; Edward C. ("Titanic") Thompson, Chicago plunger; "Nigger Nate" Raymond, San Francisco sport; and a few lesser figures. Raymond was the big winner and a slick-looking fellow called "Tough Willie" McCabe, onetime Chicago beer-legger, was supposed to have a half interest...
...Caxton's article, it appears, was first ordered and then rejected as too frank by the editor of another and more right-minded, publication. It good naturedly, but without palliation, stud- ies the activities of our twentieth century pensioners. One understands why the editor of a national magazine might reject It--but, if one has been a soldier, one realizes that Mr. Caxton speaks with authority. It is time that reminiscences of this sort were circulated, as it is to the Advocate's credit, and the discredit of American journalism at large, that what is the first of a series...
...wiggled off, the New York Times, whose city editor would not know about a race-track gambler, ran a confused story which spoke of Nick F. as "Nick the Greek." Nick the Greek (Nicholas Dandolas) is a gambler too but he seldom plays the horses. Craps, low ball, stud poker and faro are his specialties. Jack Dempsey's friend, he lost a hundred grand on the first Dempsey-Tunney fight. At last reports, Nick the Greek was alive and broke in Los Angeles...
...about politics: "No one down here reads or writes. They eat, sleep, buy and sell horses, walk to the stables and back, tap the thermometer, fuss over their top boots, put ammonia in their baths; and such powers as they've got of conversation are exercised upon their stud grooms...
These dogs are, as the case may be, worthless or precious beyond monetary considerations. Not so the dogs who get around to dog shows. There, every dog has a price; as he wins more prizes his value increases, his stud fees or her puppies are worth more money. With this speculative element in the sport, breeding pedigreed dogs becomes a business. Talavera Margaret, for instance, the winner of the show, was when very young sold by her breeder for $15. Later, he rebought her and sold her for $1,250, a fraction of her present value. The prizes offered...