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From the evening edition of The Calgary Daily Herald September 1905...At Sydney, Cape Breton an open-air ring in Colliers Field baseball park draws close to 12,000 spectators to a rain-delayed Labour Day benefit boxing card featuring Canadian champion Sailor Burke (186 1-2) and Prince Edward Island's Bill Mackinnon (181 3-4)...Some three years earlier a relatively inexperienced Burke had suffered a 10th round knockout at the hands of Mackinnon and here was his chance to get even...Showing much improved footwork and a savage aggression Burke tore into Mackinnon at the opening bell and delivered a ferocious body assault driving the older fighter around the ring, putting him down less than a minute later...From that point on Mackinnon was always on the back foot desperately evading the whirlwind of punches, trying hard to keep Burke at bay, but taking punishment in close...In the fourth round Burke drove home short sharp left hooks to the body and Mackinnon collapsed to his knees and told Referee MacNeil he could not continue, saying he had broken ribs...In the only preliminary Toronto's Frank O'Malley (192) throttled local lad Roddie MacDonald (178) in three bristling rounds, putting him on the canvas 4 times before MacDonald's corner reluctantly skied the towel...His chief second later explained his boy had broken his right hand in the first round and the thumb of his left hand in the second...At Montreal's jam packed Mount Royal Arena Charlie Robinson "The Winnipeg Cyclone" needed just inside two minutes to render Art Beaudoin "hors de combat" in their scheduled ten rounder...A lightning right hook over a slow left jab caught Beaudoin on the side of the head and it was all over...In the semi windup Wilfrid Gagne took a loss on points to New Brunswick's Al Lambert thanks to a pair of knockdowns in the seventh stanza...Promoter Armand Bibaud has thus seemingly lost his two best local attractions with no one else in the immediate picture, unless he can convince Gaspe's Horace "Soldier" Jones to turn pro...At Hanlon's Point, Toronto, on the undercard to the Arthur Pelkey-Laurie Mackenzie donnybrook, young prospect Charlie Gage took every round before knocking out veteran Ray Mullins in the sixth...Gage, a tricky southpaw, tipped the Fairbanks at a solid 186 1-2 and impressed ringsiders with his punch and his ring craft, and could be one to watch in the ring unless he decides to try his luck with the Argonauts football club...