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1 LEAVES K. G, WORK ! THAT THEY MAY FIGHT(By Phd Pa\no XVnttm for th* International \e«5 S#nnlt;*» 1PARIS. Sept. 4—(Hy Mail)—Two former pugilists who had been boxing instructors in cantonments m the i'nited States for the past eit:tit months. decided they preferred s»r\-ice at the direct front instead of in the roar, when they cable to Franco recent tjFrank Bk Mac key of Jersev City and Danny Dunne of Clevctnnd are the two former ring battlers who are now* taking part m the biggest fight ever waged. They came to France with the Knights of Columbus to continue their boxing instruction work, but they soon changed theirideas.A trip to one of the big military hospitals, where they acted as stretcher bearers, made the two boxers change their minds. One of the first men Mckey carried in was a young chap who had been blinded in one eve and whose body was horribly seared by mustard gas. Dunne toted a stretcher with a jotmg marine on it. who had been lorn by a bomb dropped into a field dressing station from a boche plane.‘•If that's the wav those Dutchmen are fighting over here, wc want to 'get at the front, so that we can feel we are doing something to crush them,” said the two boxers in unison. Hoth of thorn had volunteered for army service before they came over-sens foe the Knights of Columbus, but had been rejected because of injuries sustained in the priz-e ring In pre-war da vs Between the pair they have i loueht over “00 battles in the squared arena, and both are badly battered as a result.MacKey and Dunne have had their 'v ishes granted; the former is at the ironr with the famous Third division, \shile Dun no in in the zone where shells fly with the “Fighting Twenty-sixth'' division. They are working as I regular K. of C. secretaries.
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Fort Wayne News and Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 03, 1918
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