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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1935
THE PIN TABLE
the new
them
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There are people who are paid to think ahead for you..."
CANADIAN PACIFIC
Sammy Vosely. Was he talking WORLD'S about Sammy? This Ericson had GREATEST clothes a nerve. Or perhaps he just had TRAVEL
SYSTEM to talk about himself, about his
ANNOUNCE 1936 SAILINGS
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Kobe
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John Ericson walked in. alone.fo He looked different from the Rouse protested time I saw him, in the dock Hefthe dock in was well-dressed, sure of himself, Dandies in the leisurely. He looked at the two malyth Man, but hundred tables camally, not as if convict him? Howeve be was looking for anyone. He At the trial, Ericson had look-murder trial, the same way that was wasting time, like I was Heled just like a dumb killer. Now some people have to talk about watched a man playing, while I he looked a crafty one. The ele about their operations. There pulled another ball, and watched linent of doubt might work with was no doubt, anyway, he knew he him. But I didn't wait to see the simpleton: but little benefit was on safe ground talking to me. in his whether I'd got the 5,000 hole, jis given to the clever gent. This As if I knew what was which would have got me the Ericson was clever. Was he almind. As that was it as i
hama Honolula Victoria night's prize, more than likely. ways? Was be, above all, clever he was delighting in sharing a Ericson went over to a racant enough to look dumb? Had good joke..
"Louse" Arrive Leave Leave Leave Leave Arriss “Ever (think,” he said as he table against the wall and pulled Sammy Vose told him to "look
E/Japan Jan. 14 Jan 16
Jan. 19 Jan. 21 Jan 27 Feb dumb?
pulled the seventh ball, how this 5/A, 29 Jan. 31 Feb. out his money.
Feb::16 Feb. 18 Feb, 25 Mar. Ericson played first. He had game is something like the way E/Canada. Feb. 11 Feb. 13 I was off without playing Joe found the range
Mad 14 of his trigger, we live-like fe? I mean, IE/Russia Feb. 26 Feb. 28 Mar.
Mar. 11 Mar. 19 Mar. 19 Mar. 24 the return match. or even men and sent the first ball confidently don't go in for a lot of thinking, E/Japan Mar. 6 Mar 8
E/Asia Mar. 20 Mar. 22 Mar.
April tioning that I'd pick up the beer into the top slot of the groove. but that has struck me. I'll leave /Canada Apr, & Apr 5
Apr. 8 Apr 10 Apr. 17 Apï. 22 later. I walked straight up to the
"Shot,” I said. "You play as the development of the theme to E/Bussia Apr. 17 Apr. 19 Apr. 21 Apr. 23 Apr. 25 May 4 table next to Ericson's, put in my;
you. Your line, isn't it?”
E/Japan May 1 May 3 if you've thought it all out."
May 6 May 8 May 14 May 19 May 15 May 17 May
June 1 penny, and began to play. It was
"No, he said. “I haven't.” The seventh ball rolled strongly E/Asia
E/Canada. May 29 May 31
June 3 June 5 Jane 12 Jun 17. the old game of Corinthian, with
Now there was a case in point, up the incline, rushed down the pit: June 12 June 14 June
June 29 out. flashing lights, buzzers, co showing the difference between left side, climbed wearily UP E/Japan June 26 June 25 July 1 July 3 July 9 July 14 Itact switches or automatic push
Ericson- and the one in through the gates. I saw what E/Asia July 10 July 12 July
July 27 July 29 July 31 Aug. 7 Aug 12: ers. You just played the game to the dock on a charge of murder. traps were shut already. Two E/Canada July 24 July 26
Aug. 24 fill up the traps and shut them.
Aug. 26 Aug. 28 Sept. 3 Sept. § and to my mind it's still the best He had confidence, assurance. He more balls had to go in before he E/Russia Ang. 7 Ang. 9 Ang. 11 Aug. 13 Ang. 15 xame of the lot. Why, with these just said his opinion. In the dock got the real benefit. That skill E/Japan Aug. 21 Aug. 23
that had gone into placing them he blithered. new tables, you don't have to do
The second ball was much too there or that luck-might be; more than pull the trigger, and
wasted. The real endeavour, came hard after that the gadgets and the
"I take back what, I said. Eric at the end. The ball just hovered! springs and things nlay the game
there; slid "away again, banged: for you. A queer world, Next 300, I said. "You haven'
Now this is what I admired against a 400 pin, slid off, skirted thing they'll do is to mechanise
about him. He had heard me use the 1,000 hole, felf into a 500. golf courses, so that when you
“Luck!” said Ericsons. “That's play into certain bunkers, a bell his name, but he pulled the next will ring, lights will flash on in ball as if he hadn't been a mur-more important than skill, no mat- the clab-house clock, and the ball derer, as if I didn't know he had ter what you say. That's what killed, as if he didn't know I knew pulls you through in the end will be shot out on to the green. That's what things are coming to he knew-bell! Anyway, he took Why Bother, then? You're buffet- I believe that half the troubles of no notice, and the third ball wented about, shouldered out of good this but all this has got nothing into the groove. Two in, out of billets, come straight for
three balls. He would double all good ones. Then by the fraction to do with Ericson..
right...
of a millimetre, or maybe because As it slid in and closed the trap, they don't like the parting in your he showed that he had noticed the hair, you strike something on the
wrong angle.... "Planet, aren't you?** he said.
Click went the eighth ball up to "Sixty-six doubled," I said, 25 Crime man? I thought so. You the striker. Strange conversation if I could only add aloud fellows get about. But you get for a West End pin-table saloon!
Thirteen thousand and-er: two surprises, don't you?".
Queer people round us, crowding hundred.”
I played the halls quickly, so as to finish first, counted my score. and announced it loudly.
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I looked at him. He was surely the tables. But mostly, laughing,
Ericson looked up, as I hoped cool.. The would. It gave me the chance "That's what
I
easy-going people,,, getting fon we live on," Ilout of their share of luck or ill
¡
Ericson took trouble over the
true
The ninth ball was in the
to look over at the way he was said. "Surprises that happen to luck.
other people."
The eighth ball was all right. playing.
"Get some yourselves, some Down the groove it went, into the "One one six hundred. two two times, too?"
1,000 hole. One more ball needed hundred; three thousand, four,
"Doesn't everybody I said to double. four eight hundred, five four hum-quietly. dred, six thousand, six thousand He didn't answer. He just last two. He did not follow up eight hundred.”
counted.pulled back the trigger and sent his theme. Maybe it was "Double it and you've beaten me the fourth ball inte the groove that he didn't think much. But How many more balls?"
The fifth ball was short.
I bet what thinking he did was "Two," said Ericson
"You can't kid machines," good thinking. "Good," I thought. "We are said. "That's why I wonder at conversing amicably. In another people playing the things. After groove all the way.
"It's seldom I've been like this," moment we'll be old friends all, they love kidding other people. Great game, where you can count They get a kick out of a piece of said Ericson. Now I don't mind the other fellow's "score."
good luck, like that first ball of what happens. I can coast home. With the last ball he doubled. yours going in there, but they I'm all right for this round, any- We got quite excited together as like deceiving their opponents way. No good for a non-thinking it trickled back after hitting the best of all. And you can't deceive man to look further than that...
And to prove his words, he drew spring, just made the grade, the pin-tables, much, can you?
"You don't have to," said Eric-back the trigger and let the ball stopped a moment on the side- edge, and slid down into the bot son, pulling the fifth ball strong slide round the table fast. But and viciously. "You don't have to the last gate checked it, and on tom trap.
live on machines. But you have the return from the spring it sail- to live on people: That's why youted confidently down the centre of
Play you for a pint,” I said. “Okay,” said Ericson, gla
He seemed a different sort of have to deceive them. Always the groove, dodged the 1,000 at the bottom of the shut traps, and fellow from the man I'd seen in Every minute!"
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the dock. Then, he had seemed He seemed worked up. He pull-jerked into 400,
"There you are!" said Ericson. dumb, stupid, bemused. He had ed the sixth ball hard again, and spoken slowly, had asked ques-If ran over the groove, hit the "That proves something" tions to be repeated to him. He side, carcered over the board, shid had been dressed differently, too. round the pins, and with a last (Query: How many times has a sidekick slipped into the 1,000 man's clothes got him off a crime? hole. Or convicted him? Or, for, that matter, the clothes of a women? Do women jurors let clothes in-
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