Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1918 — BOXERS SLOW IN ENLISTING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOXERS SLOW IN ENLISTING

Jess Willard and Benny Leonard Say They Are Ready, but Enthusiasm Not Overpowering. #•* ,i Football, track, swimming, rowing and other athletic stars from practically every college in the country, together with bowlers, golfers, swim-

mers and boxers are included in the long list of athletes who will make up the new army, but boxing is perhaps the laggard of all in the matter of coming to the front with enlistments. Of the many well-known boxers in this country, Jack Dillon and Willie Ritchie* are practically the only two who have world-wide reputations to enlist. Benny Leonard, Jess Willard, and others have announced that they are ready at any time, but their enthusiasm has not been as ardent as that of some other athletes.

Champion Jess Willard.