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From the August 1905 issue of Mitt Slingers Magazine...Gunboat Smith is handed the world championship belt in a ceremony and banquet at the Statler Hotel in New York by an official of the IBU...As Smith has vacated the NABF title, that body has opened the bidding process to promoters to arrange a match to find a new champion with one of the leading available challengers being Luther McCarty...With Joe Jeannette and Jeff Clarke out of the country, the next attractive opponents from a financial consideration are the Canadian title holder James "Sailor" Burke, New York's Bill "KO" Brennan and the Pittsburgh slugger Frank Moran...Jim Kennedy matchmaker of the 20th Century Club in New York is first off the mark with a purse of $7,000 split 55-45 and sixty percent of the gate receipts split 65% to the winner and 35% to the loser provided the principals are McCarty and Brennan...The Pennsylvania Athletic Club offers the 12,000 seat Duquesne Garden in Pittsburgh provided McCarty fights their boy Moran and sweetens the offer with seventy percent of the gate split fifty-fifty between the two men and a purse of $3,500 to the winner...Several smaller proposals come from Toronto, Montreal, Chicago and Detroit and a Halifax club suggests staging an open air contest at Wanderers Pitch just outside town provided their lad Burke is one of the opponents and pointing to the 25,000 fans who had shown up there for the Canada-US rugby match two weeks before...Bombardier Billy Wells is set to defend the Empire title against South Afrika's Boer Rodel at White City Stadium...British and European champion Tom Cowler has disembarked at Cape Town and is scheduled to box Mattius Obopu or Harry Smith before travelling on to Australia and has told reporters travelling with him he plans on touring America this year or next...Tommy Burns has officially joined the staff of the Dominion Boxing Foundation's academy in Vancouver as chief trainer working with aspiring champions like George Stanley and Tom Boden...