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Show I Boxer Hero Crippled in the European War ijj! ji: Jack Munroe, who leaped to j!; fistic fame in a single night by :i dropping Jim Jeffries in an ex- xj hibition bout in 1902, is back iji; j; in Canada recruiting for the Ca- f: S; nadian army, after being per-manently per-manently crippled in the Euro-pean Euro-pean war. Munroe is the first of the box-jiji box-jiji ers who gained fame in America -f to come through the war as a hero. Munroe performed many brave deeds while at the battle front, according to other soldiers who fought with him. and if ever there was a suspicion that he was not thoroughly game, it V: ' has been removed. His right S arm is paralyzed as the result of being shattered with a Ger- man shell, and while he will not j:-: ijij go back to the battlefield he is jx S; still doing something for the :':: Canadian government. |