Show RING BOUTS ENDED FOR JACK MONROE American He Heavy vy Loses an anAr Ar Arm While Battling as Canadian V Volunteer er Jack Monroe Is the tha one prominent prominent 1 pugilist to lose loso an arm In the war in Europe lIe He was Injured fighting with the Canadians on the tile Flanders front When a lad Jack rack chopped off half halt of his right foot So now he Is minus an al arm and half hait a foot Jack Jacl went from Canada to Join the British army in Ill Europe ills His was a voluntary enlistment for he was born In Chester Pa 1877 All Canada and England talked about Jacks Jack's enlistment for he was wa-a known as ns tho the man who had bad won a bout from Jim Jeffries JACK FROM FIGHTING FAMILY But Jack Jick was always a born fighter and nd ho never loved anything better than thana a scrap At that Jack came of a fightIng fighting fighting fight fight- ing family Ins Ills father was a man of small email stature but his mother was more than 0 G feet tall tan lIe He had four brothers all allover over 6 feet tall and older than himself When Jack was sl 12 years old his two br brothers and l himself rr traveled le to Nevada Nova Neva e da cia- a. a He had an uncle In the mining business business business busi busi- ness there and the boys naturally drifted Into the same calling From Nevada Novada one brother and Jack went to Butte There he went to school He was a husky lad and soon eoon Joined the football team playing left guard When Then Monroe completed his high school term he went back to mining Later he played on the football team That was 1895 and 1896 In those years his team beat every organization west of the Mississippi LIGHTEST MAN ON TEAM Monroe was vas vas' the man In a rush line that averaged pounds yet be beheld beheld beheld held l his lus s position for two years ears which shows what a good player he was I After the close of the season Monroe went back to mining and was made mine boss of tho the first four levels with men under him He had saved and got the Idea one day to visit San Fran Fran- cisco Ho lie played football with the Olympic club team at Frisco s and Incidentally went t out and boxed o with Ith the big fighters who came to San Francisco to train He lie boxed a lot with Jack OBrien O'Brien and Jack Moffat and learned all he knew mew up to the time he went East with Moffat About a month after his second season season season sea sea- son with the Olympic club he entered a boxing tournament and won the amateur heavyweight championship by by- knocking out Milward in three rounds and Gallagher Gallagher Gallagher Galla Galla- gher in two Both bouts were scheduled to go four roun rounds 2 BEATS FORMER CHAMPION JEFFRIES After that Milward and Gallagher won championship events which made Monroe Monroe Monroe Mon Mon- roe think well of himself as a boxer One day in the early part of December 1914 former Champion Jeffries and Bob Fitzsimmons arrived in But Butte to with a ashow ashow show and made offers to meet all com corn ers era Monroe and several went to the hotel at which the fighters were staying and put in their applications Monroe was one of the two engaged Monroe was matched against th tho champion cham chain pion while his worker co-worker was pitted against Fitzsimmons To the surprise of all Monroe waded right Into Jeffries that night and at atthe atthe atthe the end of four rounds the Butte referee referee ref ret awarded Monroe l the decision |