Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 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 jerobably 1,000 Kangaroo boxers in the war. and that probably more than half of them have sacrificed their lives In 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 stars on the bloody battlefield.