Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1919 — RALPH GRUNAN IN LIMELIGHT [ARTICLE]

RALPH GRUNAN IN LIMELIGHT

Oregon Boxer Recently Won Welter weight Championship of Allied w Forces in England. Ralph Grunan, the Portland (Ore ) boxer, is making a name for himself tn England, where he recently won the welterweight championship of the allied forces in the British Isles. Grunan is a corporal in a detachment of military police on duty in London, and the tournament in which he earned his title was held at the National Sporting club. In the prefimiharies of the tourney' Grunan won five fourround bouts in one night and in the final engagement received a referee’s decision over Jack Spencer of the Canadian forces.