CROWLEY POOL
[Tus pool will be found superior to the “Calcutta
Sweep” usually held on steamers.]
1. A pack of cards is shuffled, cut, and sealed up by the
purser, or other disinterested party.
2. Tickets are bought, and numbers drawn as usual.
3. The numbers from “ Low Field” to “ High Field” are
sold by auction as usual, half the price going to the original
drawer, half being added to the pool.
4. The ship’s run is declared, and the winner has a
temporary claim on the pool.
5. The purser now takes the sealed pack of cards, and
deals them one by one face upward, until he has dealt five
plain cards.
The sum of the pips on these five cards is the amount of
the pool in sovereigns, or, if the amount of the pool already
exceed that amount, in sums of £2. [Thus, if 5 Spades,
2 Clubs, 10 Hearts, 3 Clubs, 8 Diamonds turn up, the winner
takes (5+2+10+3+8) £28. If there be already more than
428 in the pool, the amount will be £56, and so on. There
must always be a deficit]
6. If these 5 plain cards come out without interruption
from Court Cards, the winner of the run takes the pool. But
any red court card shifts the sum higher, any black court card
lower. Aces 4, Kings 3, Queens 2, Knaves1. [&.g,, let the
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