Chief Askew's Diary: March 15, 1930

A 'skin game' is interrupted; 'dainty' ladies' bridge club meetings recounted

There was lots of game-playing going on in Newnan this week, most of it legal. Chief Askew and his “Boys’ dealt with the illegal kind.

“Boys raided a skin game at #11 Cates Alley before I went home,” he wrote, using the slang term for a rigged gambling game. “Caught 4 and 4 got away. Some of them dived out window carrying sash glass and all.”

Meanwhile, the Society page of the Newnan Herald carried brief accounts of bridge games hosted by various matrons in their homes. Paid subscribers can read on about a time when such goings-on were considered newsworthy.

The set of four unused daffodil bridge score cards from the 1930s are being offered on eBay.