The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-09
HOTELS CLOSED TO
: PHILADELPHIA JACK
The Waldorf Refuses Pugilist.
Netherlands Says "Go"-Regis-
tiers as "Mr. Hagen"
Especial to The Times-Dlspatch.)

phia jack O'Brien, accompanied by his
sister and his valet arrived yesterday
with truckload of baggage at the Wal
dorf-Astoria. The condueror of Robert
Fitzsimmons went UP to the register said,
"How-do-you-do" to the clerk and reached
for pen to inscribe his real name j. +.
Hagen. The clerk told him that there
must be some mistake in his impression
that rooms had been engaged for him in
advance, and that the hotel was so
crowded that 1t would be utterly impos-
sible to properly accommodate him.
The prize fighter did not smell a rat"
With his mother and sister he had been
a guest or the hotel on several occasions.
The bell boys and porters were all for
shaking him by the hand. II they could.
but discipline is discipline. and Il job Is
job, even IL II is a spring-lfke winter.
The puglist. drawing on the glove with
all the ease of gentleman. working his
fingers into place, one by one. and then
the thumb. not showing his whole hand
into the glove as the fighter does waiting
for his seconds to push back the padding
over the knuckles, remarked:
Now, that Is too bad. Here We are
with our luggage. Maybe we can get
lodging at the Cambridge"
Declared It Mistake.
I to his side. explaining that there had
been mistake. and that he would see to
1t that it would not be repeated. He went
to the telephone and called up Neither
lands. asking for a suite of rooms for
Mr.. Hagen. sister, and a room for the
valet, saying that they would soon be
there. The pugil.st and his party then
drove to the big brown hotel at the en-
trance to Central Park and Fifth Avenue.
He told the clerk that he was Mr.. Hagen
and SO registered.
Before long the men of the newspapers
began to arrive They asked for Mr..
o'Brlen. of Philadelphia.
No such person." said the clerk.
Then one of the reporters unwisely
blurted out the fact that Mr.. Hagen's
name was on the register, that Hagen
was Philadelphia Jack" and that WAS
the man they wanted to see. The man
ager of the hotel appeared at this mo-
ment from his private office, and when
apprssed of the fact that the pugilist was
one of his guests he sent a bellboy to tell
sOBrien to please step down to the office
a moment. When "Philadelphia Jack"
appeared he was told politely that the
Netherlands Hotel did not care to enter
tain him any longer.
Retires to Think It Over.
II don't want to cause you any trouble"
said O,Brien to the manager, with the
blue eyes turning the gray that gleams
F. In fighters eyes. II don't want to be
where don't belong, but do want 10
stand on my rights. I have done you no
wrong other than to pay for your hospi-
tally. I am going to my room to con-
slider just what I ought to do"
In his room he told his friends that it
was the hardest blow he had ever re-
ceived in his life, almost as bad as tho
one he received in a fight some years
ago.
why, this afternoon he continued.
when came into the hotel a baby cooed
at me and held out Its hands. Like dogs,
they know q decent FELLOW, and am not
Boosting. do not drink, nor smoke, nor
swear, but do fight as profession. 1t
IS an age when every man should do the
best lie knows how in whatever calling
he chooses, and / have done my best
in mine. Played honestly, 1t is as honest
and decent q game as there is. Men llke
Jim Corbett and I have elevated Ii. The
game ought to be so clean that women
and children could go to see 1t, but the
trouble is that they can't, as we have
to fight stripped and not like football
men covered with leather and pads. It
f is not a bit rougher Every man who is
not ashamed OF himself In his heart must
have a fight some time. and it is true
men like the prize fighters that they
can learn to protect themselves.
Will Stay Until After Breakfast.
Mi. Hagen summoned the manager and
told him that he would leave With his
sister in the morning, He did not pros.
pose to be put out,at night to seek a
new lodging, He said that he would take
dinner and breakfast in his rooms. and
to DO sure to have five fresh raw eggs
ready for him before breakfast the best
food in the world for healthy per-.
son.
RESULTS. or. RACING AT
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