Rumours that a rupture relations had occurred between Shelaeff and his manager, Heinrich Seelig, were emphatically refuted, although it is open knowledge that Seelig, beside himself with rage when Shelaeff walked out on Vicente, slapped the Harbin Wonder Boy and launched into a tirade of abuse which Shelaeff took with head hanging and tears falling.
Local critics are still at a loss to offer a suitable explanation for Shelaeff's breach of championship tradition. They point to easy vics scored over Vicente by both Henry and Young Alde, in which Henry floored the Cebu Cave-man five times and Alde floored him twice.
Considering the short work Shelaeff made of Henry and his impres ory over Alde local experts are totally in a fog for an answer to the question of why Shelaeff did not knock out Vicente within one or two rounds. Certainly they feel that Vicente will lose his newly-acquired title to the first man of any ability he meets, and feel that there will be no little difficulty in getting the Cebu Caveman into the ring for a defence of his belt.
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