Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1917 — Untitled [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

In Billy Miske of St. Paul, conqueror of Charley Weinert and Jack Dillon within four days, the ring has a man who compares favorably with tin* boxers of an earlier day in that he* is a real fighter ami is in the game because he likes it rather than because of the gold to be derived from it. Being perfectly sane, he of course demands a fair wage for hi* work, and tn return he furnishes the best brand of fisticuffs of which he is capable on every occasion that he appears in the ring. It is this trait which singles him out from the ordinary run of pres-ent-day boxers and places him in a class with the old-timers. It was while working in the shops of

the Great Northern railroad in St.* Paul with Mike and Tom gibbons that Miske first conceived the idea of becoming a fighter. Miske says of himself: “I was naturally a strong kid, my work as a mechanic and as a lineman for the telephone company having developed iny muscles, and I could lick most of the fellows of my weight in our neighborhood. Then when Mike Gibbons became famous I decided I’d like to be a fighter, too. So I Joined the Dreamland Athletic ctub in St. Paul and used to put on the gloves with the professionals who trained there and 1 soon picked up a slight knowledge of the game.”

BILLY MISKE IS REAL LOVER OF BOXING GAME.