THE POPULAR ENGLISH HEAVYWEIGHT BOXER, BOMBARDIER BILLY WELLS, TRAINING AT BRIGHTON FOR HIS RECENT FIGHT WITH JOE BECKETT, OF SOUTHAMPTON, FOR THE BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP OF ENGLAND. Wells served in France as instructor of physical training at a convalescent camp, where he was a great success and very popular. It was recently announced that he had been engaged by Mr. C. B. Cochran for a singing part in the new musical play called “Afgar.” With the revival of boxing after the Armistice an elimination contest was inaugurated to decide on the English representative to meet Georges Carpentier, the brilliant French boxer, who is champion of Europe. There were three claimants to this honour—Bombardier Wells, Sergeant Joe Beckett and Sergeant Frank Goddard. Wells, who held the championship of England, suffered defeat at the hands of Joe Beckett in the first of the triangular contests,, while Beckett the present champion, will box Frank Goddard in June to decide which of them will meet Carpentier.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1513, 24 April 1919, Page 23

THE POPULAR ENGLISH HEAVYWEIGHT BOXER, BOMBARDIER BILLY WELLS, TRAINING AT BRIGHTON FOR HIS RECENT FIGHT WITH JOE BECKETT, OF SOUTHAMPTON, FOR THE BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP OF ENGLAND. Wells served in France as instructor of physical training at a convalescent camp, where he was a great success and very popular. It was recently announced that he had been engaged by Mr. C. B. Cochran for a singing part in the new musical play called “Afgar.” With the revival of boxing after the Armistice an elimination contest was inaugurated to decide on the English representative to meet Georges Carpentier, the brilliant French boxer, who is champion of Europe. There were three claimants to this honour—Bombardier Wells, Sergeant Joe Beckett and Sergeant Frank Goddard. Wells, who held the championship of England, suffered defeat at the hands of Joe Beckett in the first of the triangular contests,, while Beckett the present champion, will box Frank Goddard in June to decide which of them will meet Carpentier.