Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1918 — BOXING FOR BLIND SOLDIERS [ARTICLE]

BOXING FOR BLIND SOLDIERS

One of Favorite Sports in SL Dunstan's Where Canadian Boys Are Being Educated. Boxing is one of the favorite sports of blinded soldiers In St. Dunstan’s, London, England, where Canadian boys who have lost their sight are being re-educated. ' ' The extent to which other senses can be trained to replace vision explains the eagerness of the Canadians to take np civil life. Boxing is possible for the men by the use of little bells on the wrists of the gloves, differently toned for the right and left hands. Hearing becomes so keen that It Is easy for the men to judge the distance, and follow the motions of their sparring partners—so easy, In fact, that spectators cannot be convinced the boxers are blind. The Canadian boys whose re-educa-tion has been arranged for at SL Dunstan’s by the military hospitals commission not only learn a new occupation, but through training'regain selfconfidence, and a firm grasp on the new life.