Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1919 — BENNY LEONARD A TEACHER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BENNY LEONARD A TEACHER

Lightweight Pugi list Has Taught 40,000 Soldiers Fine Points of r Boxing Game. “I have taught boxing to 40,000 soldiers in training at Camp Upton, moat of them men who never saw a boxlßg glove, let alone pulling one on.” says Benny Leonard. “They learned how to jab with the left, counter with the right, step out of a clinch, hit and get away and some other tricks of the marquis of Queensberry art. “Believe me, it didn’t take long to get them acquainted with these tricks. In just eleven months there were 40,000

more boys who could use their fists as a result of having taken military training at Yaphank. “It is generally admitted that the man who knows a few boxing tricks becomes a great bayonet fighter. Using the bayonet then comes naturally ’ to the fighting man'. A lot of my pur pilg have given, good accounts, of .themselves in prodding the Huns back to Berlin. I refer to the Seventy-sev-enth division, the first turned out from Camp Upton. Its record in France speaks for itself.”*

Benny Leonard.