Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1918 — WORLD’S CHAMPION LIGHTWEIGHT BOXER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WORLD’S CHAMPION LIGHTWEIGHT BOXER

Benny Leonard, world’s champion lightweight boxer, who boxed with his sparring' partner at Madison Square Garden for the benefit of the Women * Overseas hospital. Leonard has been training a corps of “Sammies” at Camp Upton, whom he brought with him to the Garden to entertain the *thousands of spectators. Photograph shows Leonard’s corps of “slugging Sammies.” Leonard In center.