CHEATING AT EUCHRE

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3789, 8 May 1928, Page 4

CHEATING AT EUCHRE

DISCOVERED IN HAMILTON.

Mrs. “X” was phenomenally lucky at cards, so much so in fact that she seldom patronised a euchre party without annexing the first or second prize. 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 fickle jade arid when everything was running smoothly deserted her so that she stood revealed in her true colours —a cheat.

'Recently at one of the many euchre parties in Hamilton (states the Waikato Times) an official’s suspicions were aroused at the extraordinary luck which attended the indifferent play of a frequent visitor to the card evenings. With the object of confirming this he made a duplicate copy of the player’s card and at the conclusion of play was surprised on the prize being claimed by a certain player to find that she had three more games on her score card than were indicated on the check score card he held. She was called aside and politely requested to refrain from attending similar functions in that hall.

' The ways of the cheat are as old as they are numerous, but the method employed by this 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 at practically every card party throughout the Dominion. At the conclusion of each game the successful pair present their cards to the official scorer who punrhes a hole in' them 'and by that means indicates the number of games they have Avon. The offender, it Svas discovered, carried a punch of her 0A\ T n and made extra holes in her score card. By doing this she was able to take home with her many valuable prizes fraudulently Avon at numerous card evenings around the district. Eor lioav long the offender, a demure little woman, had been practising her petty cheating will probably never be known, but the fact that she was numbered among enthusiastic card players Avho were to be seen at a large number of euchre parties, suggests that her evenings Avere certainly remunerative.