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An excerpt from The Melbourne Age October 5, 1904....Pressure from the ANZBF to defend his title belt moves Jack Howard to abandon his North Sydney hotel for a time to take on sixth ranked Peter Kling (The mandate was to defend against one from the commission's top ten) who had made respectable showings in his last two outings...Kling made a good enough show of it to be guaranteed a place on promoter Hugh McIntosh's next card...One much anticipated contest was the meeting at Adelaide between Number One contender Ern Waddy (13.2) of that town and former Queensland state middleweight champion Jerry Jerome (11.8)...Though past his best form, the amazing aboriginal fighter put up a terrific effort in an extremely close battle, losing on the referee's scorecard by five rounds to four with one even..."Waddy showed great improvement in ring generalship and punching accuracy", said Jerome to a reporter after the match...At Hobart Athletic Hall, Bill Lang revived his flagging career with a shocking third round knockout of the "Taz Tiger" big Bill Turner...At 14st 6lb and almost six foot four, Turner loomed over the former Australasian champ, but failed to use his size to advantage, taking heavy blows to the ribs and kidneys, before being chopped down by wicked hooks to the head...Lang easily avoided most of Turner's wide winging punches and placed his own shorter ones where they did the most damage...Visiting South Afrikan contender Gawi de Klerk gave George Stirling of Cobar more than his money's worth in their scrap at the Metropolitan A.C., taking the first three rounds with a hurricane assault, before Stirling rebounded to win the next three...In the seventh a pile-driver to the body seemed to take the fight out of Stirling, and in the next the Australian shattered his right hand so badly he was unable to continue...Auckland's sporting hall saw rising prospect Alec Pooley take his revenge on Gisborne's Dan McNamee with a clear points decision, erasing a disputed draw from last April at Timaru...Tall and solidly built, young Pooley shows signs of perhaps becoming the finest all-round boxer to come out of New Zealand since the late Harry Laing...Late news off the wire Melbourne's Pat Doran who had shown great promise in the professional ranks was knocked out by city rival Bill Walsh in the final minute of their eight round fight at St. George's Hall, Perth...Doran's punches seemed to lose their snap as the rounds wore down...