CLUB POKER.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17223, 13 August 1921, Page 15

CLUB POKER.

Mr TD. Phillips Oppenheim, the novelist. chairman' of the committed Of the < Cleveland Club, Claris street, .W., .was at Marlborough street yesterday; fined. £lO -with five guineas costs: for. permitJun«f 9tih). The secretary Mr Wm. Eatherly, summoned for assisting, was >&» ed £lO. # • . A . jjjj Oppenheim had offered to take the : rceponsibility. "When the police visited 5 the club poker was being piayed by men i : and jromen, and counters representing , £177 were taken from the table. The only question was. Did poker amount to unfewfiil gaming? It was desired by the police authorities again to give pub- < lie notice that it wis part of a policy 1 of the Commissioner, in so far afrit was in his power, to stop poker-playing in ] clnbs •; , i Mr Comyne Carr, defending, said ] neither of the defendants ptoyed poker. i The' stakes were limited to a.' 10s rise, ( j not a high one among people of menus. • ' TLaro iyas no secret aoouttne playing j of rioker at the- club, but. he. gate an t : undertaking "shatit would no longer i Jbe permitted. . }