Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1951 — Page 4
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‘Who’ 's Hoyle? He's A Fraud; Writer Reports Whistfully |
+. WHO IS THIS fellow Hoyle, whom everything is,
according to? | He's a fake. According to history. | Every Hoosier who ever succeeded, by dint of skill and
hard work, in attaining financlat| =r circulated a technical work distress at cards, knows that ..,iieq. “Short Treatise on the Hoyle's are the only rules in Game of Whist.” | poker, pinochle or any other | an pasteboard pastime. | HE. ALSO OFFERED, for one Indeed, millions of gamesters gyinea the secret of his artificial believe that Hoyle, the most dis- nemory, “which does rot take tinguished authority of them all. 'your Attention from your Game.” is still alive and spouting new, vy, tne following year, he exrules at a coplous rate. |panded “his field by writing rules But facts are facts. [for ‘four other games — piquet And the fact is, Hoyle never backgammon, quadrille and brag wrote any rules for poker, &C-|_..4 pyplished all five in one cording . to information at In- \volume. And that was the extent dianapolis’ Central Library. Nor of Mr. Hoyle'’s known activities,
any other rules accredited to nim, except possibly five games| All game rules attributed to
far down the list in popularity him since that time have been | today. written by others who gave him| 2 8.8 full credit or used his name in! RICHARD L. FREY, a present- connection with their own. day expert on game rules, carries| ir vie wasn't even the first to a little 4nformation on Hoyle in publish the rules of whist. thé introduction to his book on SEVES Loniiten: *Ts New Com in 1947 a book of rules govering ? Some biographical data on Mr. 353 games. which he calld | "FosH. is contained in standard et: people wroté on the subject of) erence worksgBut not much. His Hoyle. name didn't become important Dot pesore at. ou that soon enough for his life to be But Foster poin tenet ecorded in detail. Hoyle's was the “first attemp r ovle was born in '® Put together the rules for the Edmond < Hoyle was m MN most popular indoor games in one]
R. F. Foster, who brought out :
said two) *
| | the families of men aboard the carrier Antietam to be shown en
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SMILE FOR DADDY—The Navy's shooting talking movies of
the ship at Christmas. At Alameda Naval Training Station, the Hadley family (left to right), Joe, 8; Honore, 20 months, and Mrs, Joseph Hadley pose for Cameraman Jack Brown.
England in 1672, according to _ 0 ow and that “his great] point was his calculation of the,
the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Dictionary of National Biog- probabilities at various stages of | the rubber.”
raphy, or in. 1679, according to Frev (nobody knows when it was according to Hoyle). He died in 4.8 * Welbeck 8t.,, Cavendish Square, ing to all ‘authorities.
(still alive. a It is said he was called to the|
Frey cited a recent book on
bridge, NOT EVEN experts are Im- enough; but I wouldn't dare write nere is that being with a widow London, on. Aug. 29, 1769, BESoRd- {mune to the belief that Hoyle 15 3 hook of games without calling is non - progressive),
it the ‘Culbertson Hoyle.'"”
Ely Culbertson once remarked or another under the name of according to Frey): Hoyle. “As' long as I write about! ‘“Blerspiel, blind hookey, buneo, cinch (either ‘with widow’ or ‘promy. own name is good gressive’ — a possible inference
3 i i i # i i j i
crapette, ? dominoes (10 kinds), frog, hearts In addition to the rules of all (eight kinds), red dog. skat, sol
bar, but it is not said whether he \p@ker, in which the author casti- card games, chess, checkers, taire (16 kinds) and slobberhan-
went, gated “Hoyle's laws”
and so backgammon,
mah jong, dice nes (a lickspittle variation of
At any rate, he was living In frightened his publisher that the games, word games and perhaps hearts).
London and giving whist when, in 1742, he had print- attack.
lessons in publisher softened the tone of the other varieties, rules for the fol-| |lowing have.-appeared at one time rules for “strip bridge.”—C. H.
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