No Explanation from His Manager or Alde Manila, Mar. 7.
The wall of silence that was hastily thrown up about the form of Andre Shelaeff immediately following the former Oriental welter champion's inexplicable eighth round walkout in his title bout with Kid Vicente last Saturday to-day continued to stand despite all efforts of local sports writers to break through and determine the reason for the Russian's behavior.
No explanations of any kind have as yet been made by Shelaeff, by his manager, Heinrich Seelig, or by his stable-mate, Young Alde, Nothing to Say Beyond reiterating their faith in the "Harbin Wonder Boy," Seelig and Alde have had nothing to say, but it is apparent that they are having difficulty in recovering from the shock of Shelaeff's action.
Boxing followers in Manila, meanwhile, are buzzing with speculation, but through all runs an undercurrent of scorn and ridicule for Shelaeff's action.
It is generally believed in local ring circles that Shelaeff will never get another Manila fight unless ne agrees to meet Vicente in the very near future and completely redeems himself by convincingly defeating the Cebu Caveman, who now stands upon the throne abdicated by the Russian in the eighth round last Saturday.
But it is obvious to everybody that whether Shelaeff defeats Vicente in a return match or not, he will never again have the tremendous following that was his prior to his loss on Saturday.
Manila folded Shelaeff to its bosom as it had folded no other foreign fighter in history, and it is not likely to'soon get over the shock and disappointment of having pinned its faith on a man who quit without a word of explanation or without any apparent reason or excuse when things went against him for the first time.—United Pres Mr. Hollington K. Tong, formerly of Shanghai, has been appointed by the Central Committee to the post Director of the Central formally Executive of Deputy Publicity Department, it is announced in Hankow.
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