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Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1921, Page 1

iwimpiummijumiua ■■iniinii POKER DEFENDED. NEW YORK. .Inno 20. The recent decision by a London magistrate that linker is not a game of , skill is heard by people in the l liited States with astonishment mingled with pain. , In tin l words ot the New A cirk l imes, i poker is “one of the glmics ot America.” : Its degi adatioii by the British authorities has produced on this side ol | the Atlantic all the acute sensations j experienced by Americans on those hitler occasions when, taking a British ] visitor to a hasiiall game, they hear the | latter exclaim : “Why. that s round- ( ers!” and on being asked to describe j that pastime the Philistine replies: | “Oh. we play it. as children with tennis , halls and a st irk I" i What has become, the New York | Times wonders, ol the “germs oi en- ( lightcnim'iil’’ which have herb put into | British minds hv the treatise “on that | sublime art,” written 50 years ago by 4 General Robert Scheuek, American Min- i islet to Britain! _ s “Poker is a game ol skill! ’ declares . the Times, "no matter what the grave ( , cull rs ol enrvrlonaodms may think jwhom it. What insulin ratiocination, ~ what clairvoyant peutiatiou, ol otlici s minds, what sniple line.-se ol ladies and | grand strategy is displayed by perfect | pokerites! t “If there is really any dmiM in Lon- tl den,” the paper concludes, “that poker ( is a game of skill, the Home Secretary (| should get up a little game with the \ American Ambassador.” ji