A PALTRY CHEAT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5271, 7 May 1928, Page 3

A PALTRY CHEAT.

DISCOVERED BY OFFICIAL.

EPISODE AT EUCHRE PARTY.

Mrs “ X was phenomenally lucky ait cards, s.o much so in fact >that she seldom patronised a enchre party without Winning first or second prjze. The fact that she was an indifferent player shows how favoured she was by the goddess .of 'luck. But .the goddess eventually proved herself a Aca kle jade, and when everything was running smoothly deserted her so that she siood r.eveallqd in her true colours —a cheat.

Recently at one. of the many euchre parties in Hamilton an official’s suspicions were aroused at the extra-; ordinary luck which aittendted the, inr different play of a frequent visitor to the card evenings (says the Waikato Times). With the object of confirming this he made a duplicate copy of the player’s card, and at the conclusion of play w;as surprised ’on the prize being claimed by the certain player, to find that she had three more games on her score card than were, indicated on the l check score card he held. She was called aside and politely requested to refrain from attend- 4 ing similar functions in that hall, The ways of the cheat are as,old as they are numerous, /but the method employed by this 1 humble disciple of one of the oldest societies in the world was certainly a unique one. The method of scoring adopted at euchre parties now is followed practicably at every caird party throughout the Dominion. .At the conclusion of each game the successful pair present itfheir cards to the official scorer, who punches a hole in them arid by this means indicates the number of gwnes they have won. The offender, it was discovered, carried a punch of her own and made extra, holes in her card. By doing his she was able to take home with her many valuable pi'izes,. fraudulently won at numerous card evenings around the distriot. For how long the offender, a demure little woman, had been practising her petty ( c'heating will probably never, be known, but the fact that she was numbered among enthusiastic card players who were to be seen at a large number of euchre evenings suggests that her evenings out were certainly remunerative.