Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1918 — FRENCHMEN THRING TO SEE AMERICAN SCRAPPERS IN SPECIAL TOURNAMENTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRENCHMEN THRING TO SEE AMERICAN SCRAPPERS IN SPECIAL TOURNAMENTS

• * Special boxing tournaments among the American soldiers now in France,' many of whom had noted pugilistic records to their credit before Joining the colors, are fully as popular with the French as to the over§eas forces serving under the Stars and Stripes. * * At a-redent series of contests, the principal feature of which was a glove battle between Frankie Burns and Battling Mantell, -every available inch of space was occupied, and many were forced to gather outside to await the returns. Seats were at a premium two weeks before the show.

BOXING BEHIND THE FIRING LINE IN FRANCE.