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Excerpt from the weekly British Boxing News...In an elimination for a crack at the European Championship held by the Frenchman Georges Carpentier, Bombardier Billy Wells (13st 9lb) decisively whipped Derek "Battling Beattie" (14st) over 10 rounds at London's Holborn Stadium...Most writers felt referee Eugene Corri was being generous in scoring two close rounds for the Scot who met the canvas twice for nine counts and barely avoided the same a third time, the fall in round ten being ruled a slip...The German Otto Flint entered the rankings with a stoppage of Lucien Grognet of France, thus becoming the first German to make the EBU top ten since Ludwig Schuhmann...Bjarni Thorsen held onto a coveted spot with a come from behind KO of South Afrika's George "Boer" Rodel, after wins over Canadian Danny Whitebear and Ernst Rosemann of Deutschland last year...On the same card in Trondheim, Fredrik "Battling Johnsson" dealt another loss to the second touring South Afrikan when he KO'd Fred Storbeck inside of two rounds...Storbeck narrowly escaped disqualification for blatant low blows in the first round...At Dundee's Caird Hall New York's Jim Stewart survived an early knockdown to win on points over local boy Laurie Cameron after eight stanzas...Cameron's older brother James suffered the same fate at the fists of Soldier Kearns in the semi windup...At Oisin Theatre in Clonmel PO Curran took a technical knockout over Alf Langford the Boston pugilist when the latter's corner threw in the sponge after Langford had stumbled glassy-eyed from a hard trip to the canvas in the tenth canto...England's Wm. Iron Hague fell three rungs in the rankings after climbing off the canvas twice and losing the decision to Danny Whitebear at Newcastle in the last marquee fight of the month...The only active Russian heavyweight Ivan Romanov (born Fedor Lipovsky) has broken European records for consecutive losses at 32 losing to 48 year old Welsh middleweight Tom Griffith...