Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-22 | Page 28 | Service Boys will be Keen for Boxing

iSffllCE BOYS WILL BE m ME System of Training in the Army Camps Certain to Have Effect. NEW YORK, Dec. 21. Boxing,, which has done its part in keeping fit the arrnj, s going to have a voice of its own when he boys come home, according to Fred ityer, trainer of army boxers at Camp rant, Rockford, 111. The boys who have been fighting with he gun and bayonet and with the gloves ire not going to be deprived of the priv-leges priv-leges of the latter scrap when they come aome. - "It's going to be a great winter for 'he boxing men," said Fred. "When the boys get back they are going to have a 'ot of ideas about how they do the boxing box-ing game in Europe. They are going to jompare some of our blue laws with the liberality that is shown the athletes on the other si.Ie, and it is going to be all to the discredit of certain sections of the country. "Then again, almost every section la going to have a local champion in one 1 class or another, and this is bound to start a lot of rivalry everywhere. The hys are used to having their own way in the camps as far as fighting is concerned, con-cerned, and it Is going to be a hard matter to hold them down, should anybody any-body desire to do so. I "Some wonderful results havte been 1 obtained by the boxing men who have I been teaching the army boys how to handle their fists. They have inculcated incul-cated the fighting spirit in a way that could be reached by no other system. I have studied the thing thoroughly and find that the very best results have been secured by the system adopted by the training camps activity board, and these results are only just now beginning to be shown. Greater things are bound to come within the next few years." j A BIE, THE FIGHTING YID, ' who meets Kid Davis in a six-round bout at the Manhattan club tomorrow night. r N a ' i7 , - . t, a !v " . i V I i i r r , s - t ', f - -s' v i t, 4 ' - " i :f j ( : I I y i 1 1 . i I i