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Other echoes of the dying season.: Fordham 9, Georgetown 6; Holy Cross 33, Boston College 0; Centre 14, Georgia 7.
Bombardier's Comeback
At Hoxton Baths, England, British boxing enthusiasts watched a large-sized soldier, one Guardsman Pennwill, sink into merciful unconsciousness in the second of what had been planned as a 15-round match. Eyeing his handiwork, an old, familiar figure stood by in the ring—Bombardier* Billy Wells, onetime heavyweight champion of Britain and of Europe. Though long retired and getting on in years for a fighter (he is now 37), Wells had started a "comeback."
In his heyday, which he enjoyed about 1909, Wells was close to the loyal and capacious bosom of the British fight public. Handsome, good-humored, excessively reticent, he was much written about, much discussed. Tire great enigma was why so talented a man should, soon after becoming champion, have spent so much of his ring time in a horizontal position. He succumbed thus to Al Palzer, U. S. "White Hope," in 1912; to Gunboat Smith and twice to Georges Carpentier, in 1913. The usual solution offered was that Wells was sentimento-chivalrous, that he stayed the hand of punishment when an adversary was helpless. Thus, while fighting Palzer, he stood away instead of wading in when Palzer was staggering, reeling in the second round. In the next round, Palzer staggered into Wells' jaw.
More succinct was the explanation of Fighter Frank Moran. Said Moran of Wells: "He's all chin, from the waist up."
* Bombardier is an obsolete noncommissioned rank in the British Artillery. As such, Wells served England in India.