Too clever, too heavy and too long-armed to be knocked out last night, Edwin Llewellyn, of the Loyal Regiment, surprised a large section of the crowd by winning at least seven of the eight rounds to taken an obvious decision from Jack Ausborn, the hard hitting American sailor.
An unusually large crowd turned out and shivered in their overcoats to see Llewellyn make his final appearance in Shanghai a successful! one. He is to sail for England to-day Outweighing the sailor by eight pounds and enjoying a much longer reach, Llewellyn made full use of his advantages to charge and punch his way persistently to the decision. Apart from a couple of hard blows in the second round, Ausborn's knock-Out tactics were given little chance by the ever aggressive Briton.
There was tension in the air when the two men climbed into the ring. The question uppermost in everyone's mind seemed to be whether Ausborn would flatten the soldier for the full count in the same manner that he had treated so many previous victims.
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