Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1919 — PERSHING MEETS OLD BOXERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERSHING MEETS OLD BOXERS

Jack McAuliffe and Jimmy Twyford Detail Meeting With American General in France. Jack McAuliffe, undefeated lightweight boxer, and Jimmy Twyford, widely known as a sport and promoter of athletic events, who are in France serving as Knights of Columbus secretaries, describe in a joint letter an in-

terview they had with General Pershing while the general, in his private car, was at Dijon. McAuliffe and Twyford are conducting bouts and athletic contests at Dijon for entertainment of the American soldiers. In the letter, which they both signed, they inclosed a clipping taken from the Paris edition of the New York Herald, -which confirmed the interview, and described in detail how General Pershing was greatly pleased to learn that the Knights of Columbus are planning a tournament of heavyweight boxing contests in Paris fir the “General Ptrsiung Trophy.”

Jack McAuliffe.