Buck Baker deals with women fighting.

 from the June 28, 1915 DOTHAN EAGLE

NEGRO WOMEN FIGHT SUNDAY 

Ginger Cake Brown and High Yaller Engage in Hair Pulling Contest on Principal Street While Large Crowd Take in the Show

 The odd spectacle of a "ginger cake brown” and a "high yaller” engaged in a hair pulling contest on Foster Street,the Broadway of Dothan, occurred Sunday while probably forty young men of the city looked on until the fight ended. 

No admission was charged, however, the crowd would have been larger if the event had been advertised. Like the gladiators of old, the two women met on Foster and hostilities picked up immediately. It is said that only few words were passed.

 In view of the fact that no pistols, stillettos nor battle axes were in use- and the proverbial razor was conspicuously absent, no attempt was made to separate the belligerents - until finally a negro boy pulled the maddened negroes apart. 

  While the melee lasted the women hung their fingers in each others hair talking and fighting at the same time. The spectators laughed. 

The Marquis of Queensberry rules were not used, neither were any ground rules agreed upon, both parties having unrestricted use of the street and sidewalk. 

When the women were separated, somebody said, “Run get out of the way before the police arrive” but alas the principals had no such good luck both falling into the hands of Officers Daughtry and Hart.

 Sunday Fight $10 

 It costs $10 for two negro women to fight on Foster Street, in Dothan, on Sunday afternoon, this being the fine Mayor Joe Baker placed on both defendants today. Both women plead guilty, but Mattie Lee Kincey, who told the court she had a husband, was boiling over with rage and just had to talk some.

 “What do you do?’’ said the Mayor.

 “Judge, I don't work- I have a husband supposed to be looking out for me. That woman has almost taken my husband — ” 

"The more you talk the more it costs'' came from His Honor.

 At any rate Mattie Lee Kincey is satisfied that her husband who works at a local hotel has been taking up entirely too much time with Mary Emma Grace who works at H. Blumberg’s and if the ginger cake brown and the high yellow had been given an opportunity and a little encouragement they would have fought in Mayor’s court today.

 Moral: 

Leave the other woman’s husband alone if you don't want to fight on Sunday and get fined.