"have nothing to say about that," replied Seelig in a thick German accent when questioned about the walkout, "but I can tell you that Andre has made up his mind to knock out Vicente as soon as ne can be matched with him again, He i getting over the great shock of his defeat. He is crying about it like a baby. But I would hate to be in Mr. Vicente's shoes if they fight again. I have never seen Andre so mad and so desperate about any fight or any fighters."
Public reaction, at first almost universal in its contempt for Shelaeff's action, is slowly swinging the other way, with the reason for his walkout forming the principal topic in boxing circles. However, where earlier in the week no one dared to take up the cudgels for the ex-champion, to- there were many voices and arguments raised in his defence, although all of them still handicapped by the lack o! planations,
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