Sport: Villa-Wilde

Pancho Villa of the Island of Panay in the Philippines became flyweight boxing champion of the world by knocking out Jimmy Wilde, Britisher, in New York (in the seventh round). Next day Wilde was spoken of in the public prints as " the bravest little man who ever held a ring title."

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