Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-10
THE PUGILISTS.
Why Jack O'Brien Changed His
 Name From Hagen.

Joe Walcott Matched Agaln-ChahS-
 ing of Names by Boxers-John L'
 Sullivan Referees Street Fight
 Other Fighting News.
 Philadelphia, Pa, June lo.-George Cole had the better of Charlie MIG NC. Keeyer at the Southern A. C' laoI night. The bout went the hmlt' put nearly ended in the first rouno "nen McKeever twice took the eounl' Toward the close of the round Cole ripped in his right and left hanus ol Charles's jaw. Charles went doWn ,IoI the count In the sixth round Sote was all over McKeever and had mn in bad shape when the gong sounueu,
 Billy Willis stopped Young Maftin In four rounds. Billy Manning had so much on Ed Hall that the referee slop, ped the bout in the fourth rouna' hlu Jackson outpointed Fred Martin anu Billy Williams quit to Kid Butt ln TOUT rounds.
 pbiladelphia. June 1O.-'Philadel- !, nhia lack" O'Brien yesterday broke training for his coming nght Wiln s.Kids Carter because of the death or 7. of the Sacred Heart and stationed at the convent located at Centralla tlis state The death of the young woman who was known in the world before talzinp the veil as Matilda Hagen, re- veals the real reason for the pugil1sts adoption of the name of Jack OBrlen'
 she was a great favorite with the n,pilist and from childhood was xhurch worker. She deplored pugf SAsm and. knowing this, O'Brien, Whoo' Ah eyeryday life is known as Joseph Hagen, took the name of Jack O'Brien. His sister never. knew that he was fighter until he gained fame through his victories in England, and the news papers printed his pictures.
 The pugilist left this city last night with his father and mother and several members of the family for Centralla, where the funeral will take place.
 O'Brien and Carter are scheduled to fight here on June IT, and O'Brien says he will resume training on Thursday.
 Joe Walcott, the welterweight cham pion. has been matched with Nose La fontise for a twenty-round go, to take place July 8, under the auspices of the Montana A. c. of Butte. Nose La fontise' is quite name for fighter. If it were even Mike" Lafontise 1t wouldn't be so bad Just how Nose will withstand that awful rip to the body which the Black Demon hands out remains to be seen. But, then, after all there isn't anything in name even fighters name. Patsy Corrigan was christened Adolphus, and the change didn't make him fight any bet ter-or worse Names have changed in the fighting gesheft, as have racial proclivities. It is not so long ago that the champions in the four principal classes were Sullivan. Dempsey, Me Auliffe and Mccarthy. Now the cham pions are Jeffries, Young Walcott, Cans and Rothwell. Young is the fam ily name of Tommy Ryan, the latter being his nom de guerre. Walcott and Cans are negroes. Rothwell is Young Corbett." The negro, by the way, is more than holding his own among the knights of the glove. Walcott and Cans come pretty near being the best in their respective classes that ever sprawled under a rope. Jack Johnson is bit too light for a top-notch heavy weight, but he took the measure of George Gardner, the best 170-pound white man in the ring. Then there's 'Young Peter Jackson, in the middle and Mississippi" in the featherweight both rating A in the pugilistic Lloyds
 "Cut that out.'' The growing voice sounded on Union square, as emitted from the deepest subway. Surrounded by 800 men two bootblacks about 16 years old, were swinging their boxes y1ciousiy at each other. A blow, landing, would have cracked a skull. Through the crowd, which halted the street cars, a tall, burly, broad shoul- dered man pushed his way as easily as If he were brushing aside babes. "Cut that out, exclaimed this man in deep, rasping voice. Chuck the boxes away!' That's it. Stand up. Put up your fins. Now go at itr' John l.. Sullivan. for twelve years champion of the world, one of the greatest fighters ever born. had appointed himself master of ceremonies, bottle holder and referee at this impromptu fight between two boys. The boys fought for more than ten minutes rough and tumble. The crowd was delighted probably because the weather made every man in it feel like fighting. Tn old Rome this blood thirsty crowd would have turned down its thumb and cried "Kill! Killr' John L.. as enthusiastic as he can be now, saw fair play. .'No gouging now!' Break away kids. "Aw. git up! Stop wrastIing! Only dubs wrastle! That's a good punchr' Then q policeman rammed himself into tbe swaying ring the crowd kept, and ar rested the young fighters. The once champion swung up Broadway, mutter ing; "The cops are spelling fun all the time. and little scrap like that didn't hurt the kids"
 Los Angeles, Cal, June 1o.-Henrv Foley, the San Francisco middleweight has been awarded the decision on a foul over Billy Woods of Los Angeles