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Walter Irving Scott (July 1, 1895 – May 12, 1995) was an American musician, cardsharp and amateur magician. His glowing reputation among magicians and card men revolves around his time as a card cheat and a single demonstration of sleight-of-hand to some of the era's best magicians in New York in 1930. He lived out his last years in Rhode Island as a music teacher.〔Britland, David & Gazzo. Phantoms at the Card Table; Confessions of a cardsharp ISBN 1568582994〕 Scott spent his formative years perfecting several difficult sleights of card manipulation in order to work as a cardsharp in card games throughout America. He participated in several different types of swindles and hustles. Eventually turning to a music career he was asked to perform one more demonstration. This single event created a legend within the magic community that continues to this day.〔http://www.geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Walter_Irving_Scott〕〔http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=20807&forum=87〕〔http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=250283&forum=188&start=0〕〔http://archive.is/20121125064421/http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic7742.php&highlight=〕〔http://www.searchthemagiccafe.com/results.html?cx=014960069972729874861%3Aixusnja1pdo&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=walter+scott&sa=Search〕 ==Early life== Born in Providence, Rhode Island on July 1, 1895 he was the son of an English engineer, Edward Augustus Scott, and his Scottish wife Jessie Barnes Smith. In 1899 Jessie left her husband, after enough of his self-indulgent ways, with her four children, Jesse, Edward, the 4-year-old Walter and his sister Florence. The young Scott showed no natural qualities and drifted around with no particular purpose in mind. Then one day he found himself baffled by a neighbors card trick. He began studying card sleights and magic and entered some talent contests when he was 12. As the years passed his interest at manipulating cards for the stage turned into manipulating them for the card table. While he never directly talked about how he learnt his trade Scott occasionally stressed the importance of personal tuition and mentioned the name Walter Holman, whom he met aged 16 or 17, from Boston. Holman was according to Scott "The best second and bottom dealer", and taught him the second and bottom deals. Aged 17 Scott began to travel the states to find out "what the cardsharps actually do". In December 1919 he joined the Providence branch of the National Conjurers Association, stating on his application he was an amateur magician and 'card manipulator'. It was here he met Edward Gilland McGuire, a fellow magician. McGuire had served in World War I but having been injured returned to Providence and took up an interest in magic. McGuire realised that Scott's skills owed more to the gaming room than the magic store. He began to see Scott's skills as a personal asset to allow him entry into a more privilege world of magicians. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Irving Scott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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