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Outside of Manhattan's sweaty "Jacobs Beach," shrine of U.S. fisticuffs, the boxingest place in the U.S. is probably Camp Butner, near Durham, N.C. There every soldier boxes as a regular part of his physical training...
Daily Except Sunday. Every night except Sunday, Camp Butner's soldiers fight it out in elimination bouts, to contend some day for the Division championship. Friday night is the big night. With regimental bands tootling between bouts, an eleven-match card is staged in the camp's natural amphitheater on the side of a pine-rimmed hill. Fights are limited to three rounds (four in case of a draw...
...rules are strictly Camp Butner's. For instance, decisions are rendered on the following scoring system: 50% for aggressiveness, 25% for blows landed, 25% for generalship, defense and condition at the round's end. Because few soldiers can keep below 120 lb. on G.I. food, there are no bantam or flyweight matches...
...Butner, Jr., '18, end, has played for two years on the squad. He prepared at Shaw High, Cleveland, O., is 5 feet, 10 1-2 inches tall, and weighs 170 pounds...