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optimism from one who had really
lived and suffered.
For Nellie Reven has seen life.
Descended from a family OF artists
and show people on her mothers
side, her father a we'll known news
paper writer, for thirty years she
did her work in the writing and the
atrical field, and did 1t well.
Irwin Cobb, fellow reporter with
her on the New York World in the
old days, said: Nellie and I are
the only two reporters left in the
United States. All the rest who
write for newspapers are journal.
lists"
And now, as sat opposite Nellie
Revell, recalled Irwin Cobb's trib-
ute to her in his foreword to her
book Right on the Chest"
'If you, who read this book, are
stranger to its author, | am sure
that long before you lay it down
you will have in your mind cor.
rect picture of her individuality.
And those who know her-and only
God Himself knows how many OF
these there are-here must behold
her as she is--blithe, brave, witty,
wholesome. kindly. sweet-savored.
indomitable, soul like a white
fame, spirit like a tempered
sword. said she was brave.
III go further than that. To
the best Of my observation, remem-
brance and belief, Nellie Revell is
the brayest living creature | ever
| saw in my life"
And as the glowing words OF
Cobb's tribute ran through my
mind, thought of the book Nellie
Revell has written while confined
1 to her bed fright OF the Chest!"
What an apt title! Literally and
6guratively. right off the chest!
None but soul like a white
flame, a spirit like a tempered
sword" could have so effectively
rehuked Fate's sinister JEST
Effervescing with real wit and
humor. and scintillating with pun
gent epigrams and quaint 2Giloso-
ply. Right OF the Chest" has
given me many delightful moments.
| tried to express TO Nellie some
thing of the pleasure and profit her
book had afforded me.
81 am glad you like it," she said
simply. "But do you know. | posi-
lively enjoyed letting myself go
in that book, and not the least OF
my satisfaction was due to the fact
that socked old man Destiny for
a flock of new vertebrae Just when
he almost had me out and made
the old chap like It,"
And there you have the asyD~S"
of Nellie 2c-@!l's charAsasr. OF
timiam AA6 oAa 3aver say at4~
pir.t.
AID Sb~n | nj: S@l.le Heesl !
felt As:. tao 's,.;;l re a ~h"e
tame" al "sVr 4 re 1-s4 cs1e
sword aai se'.ote1 ny .~n spn-;
and nevcra''re ScU'1 q tSvt tLG
chafe al he ;.e,': m1@ioTTn~-.s -,
assail It,
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imagination as well as the VIII
power
at is rather stufy teelins. as
Yum Yum remarks 10 koko IN the
Mlkado You cant h.rk. you
cant talk lsnl that terr;hle
situation Tor d press agent to be
IN? All slack npi bul what's a
press agent wltiiouI d nackBune ?"
on. wonderful woman. Who
could una a I-sl and pun in her
own MISFORTUNE! Into my mind
flashed the remembrance of some
recent occurrences winch had al
the time rot on my nerves ana /
fell ashamed | confessed As mnch.
but Nellie smiling'y found q reason
md excuse IN her quaint philoso
p9y
~Arce al rs only human NJ
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trary decision of the court in which
the action had been of necessity
brought, and from whose decision
no right of appeal is permitted. He
then recounted the history of the
! reconciliation between the sections
and of he final cementing of the
nation, one and indissoltble upon
bloody fields in France during the
recent world war.
He recounted many of the achieve
ments of the Democratic party in
power during the administration oil
| Woodrow Wilson, whom he referred
to as zone of the three greatest
American presidents, whom l shall
name in their order: jefferson.
Madison and Woodrow Wilson, this
statement being greeted with con
tinued cheering.
The leadership of Mr.. Underwood
in the house of Representative IS
while a member of that body when
he wrote the famous Underwood
tariff law and his ability as a lead
er in the senate when Democrats
there ,althoug h in minority filibusc
cred the Infamous Dyer anti-lynch-
ing bill to its death, was referred
to by the speaker, ana throughout
his address was one filled with elo-
quence and directed toward an ex
position of the achievements of the
Democratic party as the party of
the people as opposed to the rec
ord of the Republican organization
which he characterized as the rep
representative Of the classes, a poll
cal party formed upon the theories
Of the old royalsts headed by Ham
ilton in colonial days, and nourisa-
ed and sustained by the grasping
green of modern money-changers as
eXemplified in the Wall street group
Of financiers.
He told in detail how under the
old banking system of this nation
"foisted upon the people 10y the ma
chinations Of the Republican party
twenty-one financiers Of the Wall
street group held within their grasp
the power to create a panic at any
tirlc, and how these same financiers
from time TO time had robbed far
mcrs of the South and West Of I'M
told millions through their grasp
ing and unjustified manipulation of
the money market.
This had been made impossible,
he asserted through the enactment
Of the federal reserve banking sys-
TEN, which law had passed the house
when Oscar W. Underwood was
Democratic majority leader there,
and which system had financed the
needs of the entire nation through
out the period Of the great war
the most critical financial period n
The history of the world. He then
related how, with a Republican adj
ministration in control Of Washing
ton, this same system had been I'D
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tire. The more troubles We have,
The more valiantly will we try to
,rin and bear It" was her solution
in a way. though. | have myself
TO blame Tried to do too much
all al once, and nature rebelled.
Don't hurry Rest once IN a while,
Ars lOugA vita breVis art is long
and life is short as the old say.
Ing is and we can't do il all IN one
short life The world goes on. and
there see Gthars besides ourselves
Il we do Ger best and Keep trying
that's "a anyone can expect"
:o:Gt nyself tongue,tted I
had cou-e 70 offer sympathy and
cheer - t'i;3 wonderful woman, and
nare ~Hs ,Ae schoolgirl listen.
,,; ~ ~n",!s ut real wisdom aud
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1t was, therefore, with a feeling
something akin to awe that en-
tered the room at the Hotel Som
erset, New York, for Nellie Revell
has recently left ST Vincents Hos
pital, where fOr an eternity. it must
have seemed. this brave woman
has fought the grim highland
won! For now Nellie Reveal is gel
ding well and may be able to resume
the active career she loved
If had expected to see a woman
cynical and snured by the sinister
trick OF fate that has hrdridd"n
her, such an idea would ha,4 b"en
dissipated by the cordiaiV and
CHEEKY words with which She greet
ed me
81 am more than glad you @cre
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NELLIE REvELL

NOTE-This intervie1o with
Betty CompSoe, noted motion pic.
taATe star, q0Gs granted By Nellie
ReVeI the day before Miss Comp
son left NeaO York for Florida
where the film beauty is at aOork
IN the meo0 Alan Grassland produc-
tlon, "MiGmi," to be distributed b2
HodbcinsO1t. The illustrations made
by famous cGrtOonists and repro
daced herewith are those appear
ing in RIGHT OFF THE CHEST.
The?' are used through the coasr-
tesD # the artists and of George
II. DoTGn Company, publishers of
the 6ook.--The Editor.
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Of cruel treatment and the effort
upon the part of the federal govern
ment to take her servants out of
the house without her consent, the
State of Alabama entered suit in
the court of arms against Uncle
Sam. The result of this suit, not
withstanding the evidence and law
were both upon the side of the
plaintiff, he said, was a verdict adj
verse to the pleading, this judg-
ment being founded upon the arbi-
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Facts About Nellie Reveu

Daughter Of a gallant Civd War Soldier.
WjdOa0 of a Spanish War hero.
The first a00mdn press agent IN the United
States.
Her hfeS SaUingS lost In the collapse of an
unfortunate Investment
Her spine 10Gs injured four gears ago. three
of the vertebrae being crWmpIed.
Since her accident she has been bedridden,
brGUely fighting for her life.
NoaO the doctors say she is getting yell.
She has a0ritten a boOk-"Right off the
Chest published By George II. DOran
Co.
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Il . >
brought me in contact with many
brave men and women. for the
life of a movie actor is a haz
ardous one and screen stars are
often called upon to face real dan.
ger in the filming OF scenes have
seen daredevil stunts performed
before the camera by those who
scoffed at death, that the public
might be entertained. 1t WAS all
in the days work. But the moral
and physical courage-the pure
serit-manifeSted in the four years
IF intense suffering endured by
Nellie Reven elevates her. in my
estimation. 10 a niche with the
heIoines of all time
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By Betty ComUson

HAD heard about The Woman
4 Who Wouldn't Give Up.
| have been upiifted and thrilled
by the heroic fight for life waged
by Nellie Revell for the past four
years, and have marvelled at the
sublime courage of one OF my
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in motion pic
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own sex who.
with spine shat
tered through &
lamentable acci
dent but her in
domitable spiri-
unbroken, still
battles bravely
on, a smile and
a merry quip
ever on her lips
My experience
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c D D D CROWD
HEARD H | | n
Continued From Page One)

lock by Sam, with whom she lived in
loving association until the great
division of the sixties, when because
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NELLIE REVELL AND IRWIN s. COBB DIS.
CUs5lNG FRIGHT OFF THE CHEST"

You know, OF course, that be
gan my career as press agent,
aud never will lose my newspa-
per instinct for good copy
ventured the opinion that this
/ faculty was partly explanatory Of
her ability to keep her from be
coming selfcentered in her mis-
fortune
There Is a lot OF truth III that"
was Neltes relninder TO be
| prras agent requires. hrsl nf all d
5enerons allotment OF imagination
/ And | speak from experience when
| / maintain thai being hnng ny by
! the wrists with yuuI chin handAged
to a board sad your month packed
so yon wont bite your tongue OF
with your aurus strapped foGethe
then have sniae1nt kick the sup
port from under your fre so ynn
crn danEle ana give the old spine
a chanro to ger s"t-is 3 condition
Of E3maa f.ecomf rt thaI taxes the
people to Cypress and destroy theil
wealth through hasty and unneces-
3ary deflation of the nations cur
,ency media.
Senator's Heflin's hearers wer'
III deeply impressed with the logic
IF his argument, those present
learning from his lips many of tn.
iplendid achievements of Senator
Underwood as a Democratic leader
and champion of the right of iii,
1eoEIe in both houses Of congress-.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08
SCHOOLBOY PUG
KEEPS HIS OWN
FIGHT DOPE

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 8.-There
may be greater fighters in the box.
ing game than Harry Qkid) Brown.
of this city, but there certainly
isn't q closer student Of the game
than the South Philadelphia high
school graduate.
Brown has his own little dope
book" which is filled with clippings
about fights in which he partici'
pated.
my reason for doing that" said
Brown, us to learn what the critics
think Of me and try to pick out and
eliminate my faults.
"I do this for several reasons,
but the most important one is this:
If I am matched with fellow I've
already fought I go over the book
and find the reviews of that fight
II study them closely for any
particular mention of my prospec.
tive opponents style. I try to
learn of his faults and good points
and also see where I made q mis-
take. If the clippings say / was
weak in any particular thing ]
keep that in mind for use when
the fight begins"
This is a rather odd and still O
good idea. Brown Is one of the few
known boxers who does. such a
thing, and 1t goes to prove that
Harry is a Woodworking, earnest
youth determined to make a sue.
cess of his profession.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08
FAVORED
To STOP
MARKS

NEW YORK, Feb. S.-Pancho
Villa, Of the Philippines, rules o
2-to-1 favorite today to successfully
defend his worlds flyweight title
against George Marks in their
championship bout here tonight.
Marks was believed to lack the
speed and punching power necessary
to cope with Villas style of attack.
This will be Villas first appear.
ance in a fifteen-round bout in
New York since he won the world 8
crown from Jimmy Wilde, of Eng
land, at the Polo Grounds. He has
boxed out of town, keeping his hand
in, and will, If he Is successful
against Marks, sign up for a re.
turn match with frankie Genaro
This contest most likely will be
held for the opeL-air season.
Both boys have posted forfeits of
$4,000 for weight appearance. Frank
Churchill, manager of Villa, de.
manded this amount when Marks
insisted on a title match to be sure
that Villa would not have to be
under a handicap. The champion
can make 10 and be strong-twc
pounds under the limit.
Marks has worked we'll and rested
yesterday after short workout In
the gym with boxing eliminated. He
was down to 113h. He was never
forced to dry out before, but to be
sure Of being at weight, George
cut out all liquids last night with
the exception Of a little water.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08

Sothoron goes back to the days
Of the curve ball pitcher TO intro
duce Dean. He talks about Victor
Willis and that wonderful over.
hand curve. about Mordecai Brown
and the three.fingered twister and
about Earl Moore and the sweeping
side-arm curve. In SothorOn's .
analysis, Dean is combination Of
Willis, Brown and Moore.
Sothoron saw Dean spread his
stuff with the Colonels last sum.
mer.
II didn't think . pitching arm:
could make q ball do SO many
tricks" remarked Sothorcn.
In exploiting Dean, 6OthOrOn
talked about pitching when the
curve was the thing. That was
before the boys brought out the
emery paper, the resin, the razor
blades, paraffin and added new
tricks to the trade.
Dean, as eothorOn explained it, is
a pitcher with only natural stuff
and 30 much Of 1t with his over
hand, his side.arm and his under.
hand deliveries that he really viii
be q freak when he goes against
the National League batterS this
season.
one game in particular pitched
The Washington times., 1924-02-08
EVANSVILLE SOLDIERS
TROUNCE QUINCY A. C..

HYATTSVILLE, Md, Feb. g.
Company F. Of the Hyattsville Ma
tional Guard, came out on the long
end of an 1S-to-12 basketball game
with the Quincy A. c.. played in
the armory here, last night.
At the end Of half time the
guardsmen were leading IL to II,
and in the remaining two periods
the winners scored but six points,
while the visitors were held to a
single point from the free toss line.
Devlin looped four through the
hoops for the winners and was q
tower Of strength on the defense.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08


fined altogether to known and
recognized stars. At least four
youths, who never tossed a ball
around a major league park have
let 1t be known in their droll way
that they will not leave their pros
porous third interests in cigar stands
ana what not for the money offered
them.
Wayland Dean, said to have been
bought by the Giants from Louis.
vile for $4,000, has shifted a dis,
oalnful sniff at the figures offered
MIN by McGraw and forthwith re.
turned his contract unsigned. No
action has been taken on Wayland's s
case at this writing. Howard Bald.
win, former Newark pitcher, Is an
other Giant recalcitrant. He wants
q cut OF the purchase price and will
get 1t like Ponzi got his liberty.
Ernest Maun, of Wichita, is a
9 third: He was sold to the
Glants by Frank Isbell, who in
weak moment referred to the
young man as "anOther Matty."
Perhaps Ernest thinks his salary
should conform accordingly.
JONA5 IA1GAA WILL Olu
IDEAS is Dudley Lee, whom the
Red Sox expect to play shortstop
next season with considerable eclar
having paid Tulsa some $4,000 for
the privilege. Lee says he is
not interested" in the figures
quoted. He seems to be under the
impression that the Red Sox mis-.
placed the date of the year in his
salary column.
Charley Hollocher, the Cub short
stop, is also uttering the cry of
the sold-out calling it's mate. He
wants the Chicago club to pay
him some $4,000 back salary for
games in which he declined to ap-
pear after deserting the club in
mid-season last year. Bill Veeck,
OF Chicago, has informed Hollocher
that he is talking through the
crown of his pearl-grey fedora, and
the matter rests for the moment.
Three other giants are listed as
hold-outs simply because their ST.
Ience has become somewhat oppres-
siVe. They are Ross Young, star
outfielder; Frank Snyder, first
string catcher, and Ralph SINNERS,
substitute outfielder. Just what
SINNERS may have to blast about
is not known.
Young, of course, rates a SUD-
stantial increase, and will get it,
but Snyder, never a meteor, slowed
down to a saunter last season, and
could not have expected any John
T. King to come into his life this
year.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08

by Dean last season is cited by
Allan. It was against the Kansas
City Blues. "If there's a team OF
fence-busters that rank with al
most anything in the big circuit
it's Kansas City," said SothOton.
"It was comical to watch Dean
fool Beals, Becker, Bunny Brief,
Wilbur Good, Skiff, Hammond and
others. Shut them out with three
hits and they didn't get a good
foul off him.
II Dean is what Sothoron says
he is the Giants are not going to
tumble down into the second divis-
ion.
Pitchers and batters, as well
as managers, magnates and fans
have entered into long arguments
relating to the growth of fence
busting. In 1918 there were but
16 batters listed in the 800 class
in the American League and ten
years later the total lad nd
vanced to thirty-eight.
1.-THE absence Of the wide, sweep
ing curve" is the answer from
Sothoron.
What has caused TIE curve to
disappear? The pitching arms II
\ 1928 ha1 a. much power as the
ones Of 1918. What then?
THE constant use Of a new
ball." explains Sothoron. It handi-
caps the pitcher and benefits tho
batter.
To make his point more i'm
pressive Sothoron produced two
A~HT l.s- IL
cover and the other showing grass
through skidding over diet infields.
would not hold. Thus the twist
of the wrist does not get the full
power out Of the curve.
With the old ball there was a
firm grip. The fo:efingers, squee
zed the cover, produced the snap to
sweep through with the old-time
curve.
"Swing the oat against the
smoke ball and there is a long
ride" continued SOthOrOn. But
batters seldom get a tOo-hOld
sock against a curve. Cut down
the curve, and it has been, and
the batter hits 'em farther. Moth
ing mysterious about that"
Until the rule to check the
freak delivery was introduced many
balls were used until they were
almost as green as grass. The
cover was rough and the curve
was wide
Ban Johnson's ruling last sum
mer, instructing the umpires not
to throw out so many new balls, Is
expected to improve the pitching
all around for 1924.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08

crowds expressed their doubts, and
somebody bet him he couldn't do 1t,
Lem jumped five feet eight inches;
"That's my length, amt 1T" asked
Lem. "Yes," said the fellow who
made the bet, ''but it aint two hun.
dred times your length" "No,"
says Lem, "but what's to hinder
me from jumpin' that far two hun
dred times" When Hi Clinker, who
told us the story, left they were
still arguin' about it, and it amt
decided yet which wins.
The favorite song Of Americans
making the European trip is said
to be, my bum it lies over the
ocean,"
The Washington times., 1924-02-08
LOBBY" JONES GRABS
DIPLOMA FROM HARVARD

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Feb. g.
With the degree of bachelor Of arts
to add to his golfing honors, Rob.
ert T. Bobby" Jones left Harvard
today for his home in Atlanta, Ga.
Although Bobby has become the
national open golf champion since
he entered college as a junior in
the fall Of 1922, he has never swung
his club for his alma mater, be-
cause as a transfer student" he
was ineligible for the college golf
team, and because permission was
not granted him to compete in last
summers intercollegiate match.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08

YER hear of the triumphant homecoming
Il & the a OF 1905? It's great story and far we can
the tale several times general table suitably adorned
with STEMS probably in New York. Detroit Chicago Boston, for
foregatheed with cities
Nick pretty good story teller telling story
himself along according Hoyle The other
Washington Nick told friend Of this and be-
Leve this good time take all Washington
tell Nick begin scattering the the
of his to Florida.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08
SAM CRAWFORD COACHES
COLLEGE RASERALLERS

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8.-Sam
Crawford, diamond star with the
Detroit American League club for
almost a decade, yesterday signed
a contract to coach the University
of Southern California baseball
team for the 1924 season. He will
take charge of his new duties i'm
mediatelv.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08
NOTED WESTERN UMPIRE,
HARRY COLCAN. DEAD

PITTSBURGH, Feb. S.-Harry E.
Colgan. fifty-five. former National
League and Pacific Coast League
baseball umpire, died at his nome
in a suburb yesterday. He offici-
ated for the Nationals in 1909 and
subsequently called decisions in the
Coast organization until several
years ago, when he was stricken
with partial paralysis while on the
field. Colgan has been a resident
here for thirty-five years.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08
LExINGToNS DEFEAT
FAST PRINCESS SIX

The Princess Sextet met an un-
expected defeat at the hands Of the
Lexington girls last night. the score
being 2S to IA.
Miss Ochs proved the star Of the
game, registering no less than eight
field goals.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08
He Found 1t Out.

He Found 1t Out.
<<THE next morning, feeling
pretty rotten from the
celebration, l got up early
to go out and buy a new hat.
l stopped at the street corner to
buy a newspaper, and then a great
light hit me.
Fright there on the first page
in big letters was the tip-off.
Governor Foraker-they used to
call him "Fire Alarm Foraker
was due to make a speech in Gin
cinnati that night. His train
was delayed and l got there first.
"When the big crowds on Vine
street saw the Peerless Athletic
Club parade they naturally
thought it was Foraker's. That's
why the fireworks went off and
the cheers went up. The news
paper told how the Republican
campaign managers were all up
in the air about how Nick Altrock
had swiped Fire Alarm For
aker's big celebration"
And there's the story of how
Nick Altrock came home to Gin
cinnati in the fall of 1906.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08
CHALKY WILLIAMSON TO
AID PITT GRID COACH

PITTSBURGH, Feb. S.-Appoint-
ment of Guy M. (Chalky) William.
son, Pitt football captain in 1915
and Grove City coach for three
years, as assistant football coach
at the University of Pittsburgh uri-
der Coach Jock Sutherland was
announced today by Karl E. Davis.
graduate manager Of athletics.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08
Rockne Has Definite
Ideas About Pro
Football

Coach Zuppke of illinios says
he cannot make up his mind
about professional football.
He is undecided whether it is
right or wrong.
Coach Rockne of Notre
Dame gives the answer when
he says the professional game
makes loafers out of the play
ers. They play one day a
week and loaf the other six.
The Washington times., 1924-02-08
HALEY Still There

Harry Pop) HALEY may be run
ming Pop Time q close race but he
failed to show 1t in the District
open bowling tournament. HALEY
set a terrific pace for four games
and had he not errored In three
boxes in the last game would be
way out In front,