Hard. relentless hitting was stalemated last night by cool clever boxing when Andre Shelaeff, welterweight champion of China and Harbin, fought to a draw against Young Alde of Manila in the main event of the professional boxing programme held at the Canidrome Gardens. It was announced to the packed house of about 3,000 spectators at the beginning of the bout that it would not be for the title because Alde was two pounds out of the class limit.
While Shelaeff was hitting out almost steadily over the full ten rounds last night, Alde deliberately did not begin to fight aggressively until the start of the fourth round. From purely defensive fighting, Alde gradually opened up more and more until in the final stages it was a dingdong all in battle. The outcome was too close to, give the big crowd much chance to do anything but accept it quietly.
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