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Show BOXING FOR BLIND SOLDIERS One of Favorite Sports in St. Dun-stan's Dun-stan's Where Canadian Boys Are Being Educated. Boxing is one of the favorite sports of blinded soldiers in St. Dunstan's, London, England, where Canadian boys Mho have lost their sight are being be-ing re-educated. The extent to which other senses can be trained to replace vision 'explains 'ex-plains the eagerness of the Canadians to take up civil life. Boxing is possible for the men by the use of little bells on the wysts of the gloves, differently toned for the right and left hands. Hearing becomes so keen that it is easy for the men to judge the distance, dis-tance, and follow the motions of their sparring partners so easy, in fact, that spectators cannot be convinced the Voxers are blind. The Canadian boys whose re-education has been arranged for at St. Dunstan's Dun-stan's by the -military hospitals commission com-mission not only learn a new occupation, occupa-tion, but through training regain self-confidence, self-confidence, and a firm grasp on the new life. |