Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — KANGAROO PUGILISTS IN WAR [ARTICLE]

KANGAROO PUGILISTS IN WAR

Number Estimated at 1,000 by SnoWy Baker, Australian Promoter— Many Stars Lost. Snowy Baker, the famous fistic promoter of Australia, says that there are probably 1,000 Kangaroo boxers in the war, and that probably more than half of them have sacrificed (heir lives tn battle. The number of. boxers in the service of other allies, while not as high in proportion to population, as that of Australia, is great, nevertheless. France, especially, lost many of her most brilliant fistic stare on the bloody battlefield. ■ ■ . *