Bill Text: TX HCR84 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Designating 42 as the official State Domino Game of Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Signed by the Governor [HCR84 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HCR84-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Designating 42 as the official State Domino Game of Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Signed by the Governor [HCR84 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HCR84-Comm_Sub.html
By: Cain, White, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Estes) | H.C.R. No. 84 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 16, 2011; | ||
May 17, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Administration; May 24, 2011, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0, 1 present not voting; May 24, 2011, sent to | ||
printer.) |
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WHEREAS, Citizens of Texas have long enjoyed a reputation for | ||
developing original and imaginative ideas that have been embraced | ||
by individuals throughout the nation and beyond; and | ||
WHEREAS, One such innovation is the domino game 42, a very | ||
popular pastime that was created in the Lone Star State; and | ||
WHEREAS, According to research conducted in 1985 by | ||
journalist Christopher Evans of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the | ||
game, also called "Texas 42," dates to 1887 and was developed by two | ||
enterprising boys in the North Texas town of Trapp Spring, known | ||
today as Garner; and | ||
WHEREAS, There, 12-year-old William A. Thomas and | ||
14-year-old Walter Earl one day found themselves in deep trouble | ||
with their parents when they were discovered in a barn hayloft | ||
playing the card game auction whist, which is similar to the modern | ||
game of bridge; card games were considered sinful in the boys' | ||
devoutly Baptist families, and William and Walter were disciplined | ||
for their actions; and | ||
WHEREAS, The punishment did not end their love of whist, | ||
however, and they went on to devise a similar four-player game that | ||
used dominoes instead of cards; because there was no prohibition | ||
within their faith against playing dominoes, William and Walter | ||
were able to show their friends how to play, and their invention was | ||
soon taken up by other local residents; the activity later became | ||
popular in Fannin County after the Thomas and Earl families moved to | ||
the town of Windom; and | ||
WHEREAS, Through the decades, the boys' creation spread far | ||
and wide and became known as 42, an entertaining contest of skill | ||
and chance that is enjoyed by countless people the world over; the | ||
game is a true Lone Star original and a testament to the ingenuity | ||
and fun-loving nature of Texans, making it a most fitting symbol for | ||
our state; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 82nd Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby designate 42 as the official State Table Game of Texas. | ||
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