Still Further Antedating of "Black Jack" (Card Game)

[Shapiro, Fred]

black jack (card game) (OED 1917)

1903 _Evening Statesman_ (Walla Wash, Wash.) 24 Oct. 2 (Chronicling America)  This morning District Attorney Hailey will file criminal information against about 25 others, as follows, says the Pendleton Tribune ... James Spence, on two accounts, for conducting poker games and vingt-un, or what is commonly known as black jack or twenty-one.

Fred Shapiro





Fred Shapiro




Fred Shapiro

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