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Excerpt from The Australian Star Sept 13, 1905...News reaches Australasian champion Jack Howard that Tom Cowler has duplicated his feat of outpointing South Afrikan champion Mattius Obopu but in more decisive manner, putting him down five times, so Howard leaves his farm and begins light training in a Sydney gym to prepare for Cowler's arrival...In a bout widely promoted as an eliminator for a crack at the Australasian titleholder, Archie Greaves gives a bloody scragging to an over-confident Bill Turner who had been doing his workouts at Hobart's public houses...Greaves and his manager issue a challenge to Howard and petition the ANZBF to mandate an immediate title defence now that the only other real contenders have been disposed of by the Victorian...At Adelaide Arena the previous day Ern Waddy had eked out a ten round decision over Melbourne's other star pugilist Pat Doran, Referee Harry Dawson scoring five rounds to Waddy, four to Doran and one even...Out of town newspapers had felt Doran had done more than enough to claim the win...Two days earlier Colin Bell knocked out Cobar's George Stirling in front of a sparse crowd at Sydney Stadium, setting up a third match with Waddy that promised a much larger turnout...Overseas papers report yet another loss for former Empire champion Bill Lang, this time a technical knockout at 2:43 of the ninth round at Gaumont Palace, Paris at the hands of France's Marc Gaucher...Details are few but it is clear Lang had taken a bad beating and would likely be returning home..."..Dick Rafferty promoter at Melbourne's Crystal Palace has unearthed a probable champion in the person of Albert Lloyd who beat Bill Heckenberg recently. Taking Lloyd as he stands 12 months under a competent instructor at the Griffo Academy would make him a very hard man to beat."..."Young Lloyd is as fast as fire and showed it against middleweight Mick King in sparring the other day. A two-handed boxer very much like the South Australian Waddy, more than once it appeared as if he actually checked the lightning right cross that shot inside Mick's left lead, lest it should reach the chin too hard."...