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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
BROWNS OFFER
ST0VA[L $1,000
FOR THIS YEAR
Deposed Manager Says He viii
Quit Baseball Rather Than
Sign for This Sum
OS ANGELES, Feb George
Stovall, deposed manager Of

Y OS ANGELES, Feb. George
Stovall, deposed manager Of
the st. Louis Browns Is IN
clined to laugh. He has received
an Offer from the Browns to play
ball with that club next season He,
like the prominent business man to
whom an undesirable clerk applies,
has received the contract "and placed
ii on file"
The contract the Browns owner
rendered Stovall called for sal.
airy of $1,000, which is less than
the average young players in the
Pacific Coast League receive an
nualIy.
They can send their contracts until
they have spent their annual allow
ance for postage stamps StovalL
said after having look at the docu-
ment. but I'd quit baseball before
signing to play for that sum. But
I'm glad they made no exceptions in
my case. for 1t will show the fans
back East the generosity with which
the Browns are conducted.
II understand Mr.. Hedges gave out
statement to the st. Louis newspa-
pers that | don't tell the truth. All
right, let him get away with II u
he can. With the club in seventh
place last fall and me fired, got a
hand every time I appeared in the
grandstand in street clothes IN
Hedges own park, and never heard
them holler for any other official
or former official of the St LOUIS
club, and I've been in the American
League for eight years"
Stovall is not bothering his head
about the Browns or any possible &C
ton they may take. He says that II
is up to the st. Louis club and the
Kansas City Federals. He CONTENDS
the St Louis club owner got waivers
on him for the purpose Of selling him
to a minor league club, and If he tres
to enforce the reserve clause he viii
have a hard time doing IT, as he
simply intended trading Stovall on as
one would a horse or COW. As fot
being a horse, Stovall says Neigh
Neigh"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
Hanlon Meets Cannon Tonight
Young and Grant Also on Card

" has met the toughest OF them.
Jimmy Perry, Wildcat" Ferns, lie.
Houck, Cyclone" Johnny Thompson
and Billy Walters are some of the
boys Cannon las met.
THE eight-round go between those
fast little bantams. Jimmy Grant
and Spider" Britt, also promises d
great deal Of action. Both boys are
very much mistaken this scrap should
be at least as good as the windup.
a MOTHER bout that is causing
much comment is the six round
mill between kid" Young. Atlanta
best featherweight. and Kid" Ruff,
the rugged 1873 FOUNDER Ruff is an
aggressive, willing mixer and should
give the newsboy champion a tough
argument. The winner of this match
will, indeed, he in line for some good
bouts
A four-round battle between Bat
Ting Brown and Jack Wilks will open
the show. The boys are lightweights
and. according to Staten, ought to put
up an interesting mill.
ALL in ALL Staten has certainly
a picked a good show to start off
with Twenty eight rounds of boxing
will be offered the fans, and this is
enoUon to satisfy the most rabid fistic
follower.
Harry expects a good crowd to at
tend the show, as the advance sale is
reported large. The first bout will
start at $50.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
Jimmy Grant Stops
MeyerPries in Fifth;
Joe Superior Wins

MACON, GA. Feb. 6--Jimmy Grant,
of Chicago, proved himself a little AID
Wolgast in action last night when he
stopped Meyer Prizes, of Atlanta, in the
NTH round OF a scheduled ten round
bout Prizes took the count no less than
f1ve times. and proved no match for the
sensational Chicago bantamweight.
Although outweighed by at least eight
pounds. Grant rushed Prizes from the
sound Of the gong in the first round
never once letting up on his Atlanta
opponent. Prizes hit the canvas for the
first time in the second round and was
foored twice in the fourth and fifth ses-
sions. a left hook 10 the jaw ended
the bout.
Joe superior knocked out Eddie Muir
ply in the third round of the semi
windup. Both boys fought hard during
the time they were in the ring, bu,
Superior proved too fast and strong for
Murphy A volley of rights and lefts
to the jaw ended the bout Grant and
Superior have both been signed for the
next show TO be staged here.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
BY Left Hook.

TARRY STATEN, the veteran
promoter, opens his old box
ing club on the viaduct to-
night with an attractive boxing card
for local fans. Staten has booked
one ten-round bout, one eight round
set-to, a six-round go and four
round preliminary.
Eddie Hanlon, the promising local
Welterweight. gets the test of his
young career when he steps to the
center of the ring with Mickey Can
non, the tough veteran from Pitts
burg, in the ten-round feat event.
Cannon has met the best boys in the
game, but he certainly meets a likely
looking ringman in this Hanlon boy.
The writer watched Eddie work out
the past few days and IL he fights in
the same form that he has been
showing in his gym workouts ne will
give the Pittsburger a tough argu-
ment Eddie packs a terrific kick in
his right hand. and 1t is with this
member that he hopes TO whip
Mickey. AS far as confidence goes,
never lets the thought of defeat enter
his mind and has already asked his
manager, Billy Lott, to get Gibbons
or Packey for him.
IN the other hand Mickey just
~ smiles when asked as to the out
come OF to-hight's encounter. He
points TO his record, and Mickey sure =
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
Feds Do Not Fear
Dooin's Suit Threat

PITTSBURG. Feb. 6.-"Go ahead and
let Charley Doom and the officials OF
the Philadelphia National League club
sue me for libel" declared Secretary
w. T. Mccullough. OF the local Federal
team, when he heard such a threat
had been made in Philadelphia, follow
ing the publication OF a confidential let
ter from Doom to Mccullough. in which
Doom stated his terms and offered TO
bring many big league malcontents with
him to the OUTLAW" league. i've got
the goods on DOOM" added McCul-
Tough, land 1t won't do him much good
to sue"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
GIBBONS AWAITS WORD.

ST. PAUL. Feb 6.-While Mike
Gibbons, OF this city. is awaiting word
from New York regarding his clash
with Packey Mcfarland. he is going
to busy himself with little mix up
OF six rounds with Kid Graves, of
Philadelphia, in the Quaker City the
night OF February rs. The bout Will
be at catch weights.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
Cubs Arrange Game
With Birmingham

CHICAGO, Feb. 6.-President Charles
w Murphy, president Of the Chicago
announced that the Cubs will play at
Birmingham, Ala. March 20.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
EDWARDS TO LEAVE TIE TURF.

LONDON. Feb. 6-George Edwards,
,ho theatrical manager, who for years
past has been deeply interested in horse
racing. has decided 10 retire from the
turf He will sell his big racing es-
Enlistment in wiltshire. where he
keeps forty horses in training.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
|. s.'u. Plcks coAcH.

BATON ROUGE. Feb. 6.-At a
meeting OF the th'etic commission
Yesterday r. T. Mcdonnell. former
Colgate man. was appointed success
sor TO James X DIVER as football
coach at Louisiana State University.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
ILLINOIS BOOKS GAMES.

CHAMPAIGN, I'D, Feb. 6.-The
University of Illinois has scheduled
baseball games with Kid University
Of Japan and the University of Texas.
The Texans have been given May !
and on Illinois Field.
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cAAPPELLE MAY JOIN FEDS.

MEMPHIS, TENN, Feb. 6.-Bil
Chappelle, former major league pitch
er and now the property of the Beau
mont club, left for Chicago to-day
to confer with President Gilmore, Of
he F'ederals.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
ATTELL Bees
FOR CHANCE At
JOHN K|[bANE
"If Champion Will Give Me One
More Fight I'll Regain IT,
tIe," Says Abe.
BY Sid G.. Keener.

G 7. LOUIS, Feb. 6.-Abe Attel is
= in st. Louis Abe is here. not
as an entrant in the roped
| arena, but as an actor. Yes. a real
vodeVille star, being one Of the head
liners at the Columbia Theater this
week
He's the same little Abe-fun OF
hghting talk and full of fighting am
billion. with the lone thought-that
championship.
Il want one more fght-ves ms,
one, and if ! miss they can bar me
for life' but | won't miss"
That sentence was delivered by Al
tell The one fight he wants is with
Johnny kilbane. his lone conqueror
and the lad who removed him from he
worlds feathcrweight crown after II
rested on Abe's head for dozen long
years.
a TELL even forgets his retire
ment incident in St. Louis That
was November ~. 1912. when he
fought six rounds with Ollie Kirk at
the Jai All Building. Minus speed.
distance, science and everything else
that night Atten announced that he
was through
But Abe gives us his reason for
quitting that night. Il didn't train
| a lick" says Abe. mo, sir: | sat .up
nights in New York. playing cards.
and forgot all about the match in St.
Louis. | was wired that | was 20
| meet Ollie Kirk, That was the first
| time | ever heard there was such a
| person as Kirk.
Il thought, though that I could hop
into the ring, make Kirk miss and
| slip and get by with ease | did It
| before. and why couldn't ! do 1t
| against Kirk? But | failed My arms
wouldn't move and my legs We're
numb In that fight.
| Gee, but | remember when ! came
TO my corner after the NTH round
the thought that rushed all through
me. Abe Attell the champion for a
dozen years. was through. At that
moment my intentions were to quit
and quit for good. But once fighter
always a fighter.
"IF you don't think I'm sincere
about this Kilbane match, loob
at this telegram"
Then Abe produced a message
NnlCn OUeteu MN NZ,uuu guarantee
with percentage privilege for 4
fight with kilbane.
Il answered II and said yes. il
they'd give me s5.000.' came back At
tell And YOU know what? Now
they wire me that kilbane says hC
won't fight me, and our match fol
February - is off Don't tell me Xii.
bane isn't afraid TO tight me. He is
and he knows it.
why it's joke the way he il
travelling around as the featherweigh
champion. He meets a lot of young
sters. makes them take every ounc:
of strength out of their body by in
sisting upon l2e pounds He though
he could get me that way. but l call
ed him.
Everything l say | can back up
Look at my record, Did l make tn,
boys do 1872 pounds No. absolutel.
no Why ] fought Freddie Welsh.
met Tommy Murphy. X. O. Brown
Battling Nelson Matty Baldwin anC
Ad Wolgast Are they feathers? A.
lightweights
"Kilbane has had one big cham
pionship fight and that was witt
Johnny Dundee and he was lucky e
get a draw. Give me kilbane agar
and / tell you I'll be the feather
champion again. iii give Kilban,
back the title and quit for good"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

@HICAGO, Feb. 1.-THE Federal
I Leaguers figure that Walter
johnson, the Washington twirl-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

Georges right-hand man; ]. r. Clynes,
NJ. p, the labor leader, and Sir Alfred
Mond, proprietor of the Westminster Ga
zette. one of the most influential newspa-
pers in the country. So it really looks as
if the weary lot of the underfed. under
factories and slave at home work in
the slums of this. country might at last
be on the eve Of betterment. Some
thing. 1t is true has been accomplished
already by the establishment of trade
boards committees formed Of representa-
tiVes of employers and employed which
fix a minimum wage for the industry
which they represent-but il really is
little more than a beginning that has
been made toward enabling over two
million women. girls and children to
emerge from what Galsworthy recently
described as darkness blacker than any
words can paint, the darkness Of druid
gerry known only to those who are for
ever lifting their feet in a marsh that
drives them a little lower with each
step
ers in England the highest average
weekly wage is $3.50. and even this
figure is reached only by reckoning
i'll the Lancashire cotton industry, an
industry. by the way, absolutely de-
pendent upon the United States-which
stands alone among trades for women
in this country, so far as wages are
concerned. And of this vast army of
workers over 100000 earn less than
thousands again are below the $3.50
mark In the manufacture of silk and
linen, for instance. two women in five
earn less than $3.50 a week, despite the
fact that a great economic authority
in the person of James Fife, superin-
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"Pay Before You Eat"

"WHEN I lived in my young days in
w the Latin quarter. said Robert
Henri, the New York painter Il had
some friends from Philade phia who used
to frequent a tiny restaurant on the
Boul Mich The rule at this restaurant
was pay before you eat
The only dish served there WAS thr
but very palatable broth-price, t~o
sous.
Well. young Philadelphian took Of
Tense one day at the suspicion and even
ignominy implied in the -before-you-
eat rule. and he resolved to break IL.
Accordingly. when the waiter paced his
great deep bowl of soup before him, hc
fell to forthwith.
PAY before you eat" cried the
waiter
Not L., the Phifadelphian retortcd'
taking a firm grip on his bowl with both
hands.
But snakelike something flashed be
fore him and-presto- his ihoWl was
empty. and the triumphant walter stood
tlourshing ii vast syringe.
Pay before YOU eat. monsieur
'-.Oh. very well grumbled sht Phila-
delphian. and he laid his two sous Oh the
table reluctantly. and the waiter sauirted
his soup back from the syringe into the
bowl again
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OF

took place the writer has gone through
the report of the select committee on
home work which sat Il short time back.
and pitiful reading most of the evidence
given before it makes Fairly representa-
tive are the statements made by seven
woman and girl workers of the London
Slums, one blouse-maker, three makers
of baby linen. one aged corerer of rae
quet-bals (who earns a penny an hour.
one shirtmaker and one shirt tinisher.
None of these seven women, tollinS from
morning until late. could clear over 5.
a week, and all agreed that things are
growing steadily worse. Here is an in
structive bit of verbatim testimony:
What rent do YOU pay. earning eight
shillings a week.
Six Shillines.
Then how do yuo manage to live
We do not live. often | have to go and
sit at the machine all day without any
thing to eat
You cannot go without food in
definitely"
all ! do get
You do not get any help in any way"
No
Have We anything to compare with
this III America" was asked Miss
Macarthur
Nothing" was the emphatic answer.
L have made two visits to the United
States and studied economic conditions
carefully. and the only class of worker
there whose lot is in any way comparable
with these wretched home workers of
Great Britain-for, if possible, things in
Ireland are worse-are certain laborers
of foreign birth who work for padrones
or middlemen of their own nationality.
And what do you believe to be the
remedy
We believe that the remedy for much
of it lies in the women's own hands, if
only We can get them to organize and
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thing. Fifteen per cent of these latter
earn less than s. week-there are tales
record of women who got 16 cents
for filling 10c1 bags Of cocoa-while
the story of what goes on in the jam
and preservemaking factories in the east
end of London would. j, is said. make
that of the Chicago Jungle of the pre-
Sinclair days sound like a record of per-
lection in comparison.
Are there any woman workers who
are worse off than these" was asked
Mary Macarthur. who furnished many oil
the foregoing details.
There are over 100000 who are in
comparably worse off, she replied.
These latter are the great army of
home workers, whose hours like the
places in which they toll. are regulated
by no law and who work feverishly on
the poorest of food. weak tea and bread
is the day-in. day-out diet of the most
of them. for what is literally mere pit
lance. One penny an hour is the sum
earned by most of the London women
and girls who are shirt makers and shirt
finishers. who turn out artificial flowers
and make the uppers of women's boots
and childrenS shoes and sometimes this
hourly wage falls low as three far
things. or one cent and half and even
lower.
1t is no uncommon thing to fine
women of this type who work from
haf-past ) i'll the morning until IL
at night-or. as the author of a re-
cent blue book phrased it, who carry
on almost ceaseless toll during all the
hours they are awake'-and are paid
therefor less than $50 a week. from
which various expenses. such as hire OF
sewing machines needles and thread
amounting often TO as much as 30 or GU
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
More Likely.

~ ABLY DESLYS." said a Chicago mo-
~ diste, lis the most eXtravagantiy
dressed woman in the world. Her chin
chilla and sable mantles alone are worth
a fortune-mantes wherein the most
priceless furs are draped and folded like
soft silk, regardless of the number or
skins used.
But when Gaby Desiys comes 10 Amer
lea even her most expensive robes are
duplicated here. For American women
spend more money on clothes today than
they have ever spent-and very much
more than they should spend in many
cases.
A wo-hundred- dollar dress worn by
the wife of a man whose income Is, SAY.
s1oo "A week, looks unbecomins and eA-
travagant.
Smiling, the modiste continued:
..One OF my customers. wearing for the
FIRST time the other day an imported
duv.tvne robe trimmed with skunk said
TO her husband with whom she was
walking: -. In,
How people stare at my ne" dress
suppose they wonder if I've been shop
ping in Paris. it.,
.:.More likely her husband replied.
souriy. they wonder if I've been en-
beZZling
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insist on the appointment OF trade boaros
to regulate payment or. at least, aEr'f
on a minimum wage. Sucn ooarus ioN
exist in the eliminating. the paper-h"N
making the wholesale tailoring ana Se'
eral other trades for women, and n
every case their formation has been ~
lowed By a really striking betterIuei I
of all the conditions of labor. What hdS
happened in the chaininaking lndustrl.
which is conferred at CradleN Heath g
fairly typical. This was previously one
of the most miserabiy paid callings -
England thirty-two lngs having To =
made, before 4 penny was earned. NV
per cent and the women have stror
union. which, apart from the trade boar.
can protect them from unfair treatment
In Nottingham the work of the local
board has been hinderei by the great d.
preston in the lace trade. due, chiefly. -
the tyranny of the hobble skirt. To this
locally abhorred garment is attribute
complete StaGnation in respect to skirt
lace, and consequent unemployment, Nti II.
things are much better than they WEI.
while in the wholesale tailoring trad-
the minimum wage fixed by the board g
some 10 per cent better than the prcN to' &
average.
1t is Illegal. of course. 10 pay les
than the minimum wage fixed by tho
boards. She Went on. aud where a.
law is broken prosecutions follow withuU .
delay. At Cradiey Heath. for eNampI,
AN employer Was found 10 have r.uI
three Young workers less than the nJu p
mum rate He was proceeded agall~I.
and. as he had been captured red -haua-
ed. there WAS no excuse. Properly tatln;
a serious view of the offenSe. the nagi~-
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cents. has to be deducted. l know of
many shirt tinisher who has to make
eighty-four button holes before she earns
10 cents. and whose weekly taking av-
erages about s1.25. and there are max
ers of baby linen who receive cent
and a half a garment which takes near
lv two hours to make, not to mention
. women who get Is cents dozen fol-
making shirts, the fabrication of each
one of which occupies at least an hour
of rapid work
Then Miss Macarthur told of the most
miserable occupation of all. the card
ing of hooks and eyes.
This work. if prolonged said the
secretary. lis injurious to the eyes. Yet
women will often stick to it all night
for children as well as themselves NAV
be dependent upon it. Nor are the chill
dren idle. However young, their little
fingers can link and necessity set:
them in motion Often have l seen chill
dren of three. four and five years help
ing their mothers. but then, we never
hear the end of child labor.
*
In Nottingham, children of five en-
gage in lace work. and i'll London they
help in boxmaking. button-carding and
many other trades. Only a few years
ago Il parliamentary return demon
strated that at least $4,000 children in
full-time attendance at school were EN-
ployed out of school hours for wages, and
that about 10000 of them worked more
than twenty hours per week. Upward
of 5000 children work more than fort!
hours and a few from fifty to sixty hours
per week. Four sisters mentioned IN
this report. whose ages were twelve, ten
nine and eight were employed at home
twenty-five or fifty hours per week al
wood chopping.'
Since the conversation above recorded