FW: "Jass" card game in 1911 (from Barry Popik)

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Barry Popik sent the two messages below to Ben Zimmer and me, and I now share them with
ads-l. I don't think the Swiss card game "jass" is the origin of our term "jazz," but it's good
to get all information out on the table. Maybe somebody will see something I'm missing.

Gerald Cohen
P.S.  My thanks to Barry for all his work, part of which appears on his excellent website barrypopik.com
And tangentially, what is the origin of the name of the Swiss card game?

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Popik <bapopik at aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Mar 21, 2012 3:48 am
Subject: "Jass" card game in 1911;

FYI, this is the card game "jass." Was Slattery playing cards as well
as craps?...There is a nonsense "JASS MOOLAH" said by a Swami in a
comic from 1911, but no other interesting "jass" NewspaperArchive hits.
--Barry Popik
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jass <https://minermail.mst.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jass>
,,,
Jazz (word) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(word)
Gleeson said that Slattery had picked up the expression in a craps
game. ... These initial articles were written in Boyes Springs,
California, where the San [Francisco Seals were in spring training.]


-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Popik <bapopik at aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Mar 21, 2012 3:48 am
Subject: "Jass" card game in 1911

I'm looking at "jass." There are a lot of hits. I don't know if a
"jass" card game helps.
...
...
Barry Popik
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NEWSPAPERARCHIVE
20 July 1911, Xenia (OH) Daily Gazette, "Sires and Sons," pg. 3, col. 2:
M. Marc Ruchet, president of the Swiss republic for the year 1911, is
so democratic in his tastes that he is often found in the Hotel Berne
or in some more modest cabaret, where he sits in his shirt sleeves,
talking to visitors from the country and engaging in jass, an innocent
card game.

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