New-York tribune., 1921-01-14

The scheduled twenty-round battles
between Battling Aevinsky, of America,
and Bombardier Wells. England's much
manhandled heavyweight, was called
of, owing to an accident to Levinsky's
right arm, sustained yesterday while
training. They may meet three weeks
from to-day, if the injury has healed.
Big Crowd on Hand
A tremendous crowd was on hand
when Herman and Wilde entered the
ring and were introduced. 1t was an
nounced from the ring that Herman
had scaled in at one pound overweight
weight championship of the world be-
cause of that. This created much quiet
amusement among the Americans
present, after the bout, for when Her.
man first landed in England the Lon
don sporting critics insisted that Her
man was still the worlds title-holoer
in spite of his recent defeat by Joe
Lynch in New York.
OF course, at tnat time, it was fig
ured that Herman was due for trim
ming at the hands of Wilde, and that,
therefore, the title would come to Eng
land. Nobody seemed to know after
the battle this evening just what the
status of Herman and Wilde was AL
though technically knocked out, Wilde
had claimed the title before the men
put on the gloves. Is Herman cham
piion bantamweight of England, or
simply the most logical contender for
return bout with Joe Lynch ? It seems
matter for the diplomats to handle
The bout served to demonstrate .wo
things very decisively. namely, that
Herman is distance fighter, and that
W'lde has shown once more, as Johnny
Kilblane, Stanley Ketche and others
have done before him. that a man cam
not go opt Of his class against cham
pion ard hope to win.
It is probable that Herman out
weighed Wilde by about eight or ten
pounds, and this proved a handicap
that even the wonderful little Welsh
boxer could not overcome. He boxed
with rare skill in the first half of the
battle. but Herman. fighting coolly and
taking his time, kept boring in against
his lighter opponent and after the
tenth round began to have the better
of the exchanges.
Overcomes Briton's Lead
Wilde continued to give of his best
Up to the fourteenth round, but at
this stage Herman had overcome the
Briton's early lead and was wearing
EiS man down with heavy body blows
that Wilde was no longer able to avoid
In the fifteenth round the American
crowded Jimmy to the ropes and hand
ed out terrific punishment. Wilde was
practically defenseless against this at
tack and was on the verge Of knock
out, but Herman was unable to finish
him before the bell came to Jimmys
rescue.
Wilde managed In some manner
to get through the sixteenth round
bat he was in bad shape when the
bell called them from their chairs at
the start Of the seventeenth. Her
man, seeing his opponents condition
rushed from his corner and started
furious fusillade of blows. the punches
falling on the tiny Welshman like hail
After Wilde had fallen to the floor
of the ring three times. only to rise
for the third time. reeling and de-
fenscless. Corri stepped between the
men and gave the decision to Her
man.
Burt Kenny, an American, and Spalla,
an Italian, heavyweights, substituted for
Levinsky and Wells. After having been
warned several times, Kenny was dis
qualified in the sixth round for holding.