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From The Glasgow Herald February 1907...Georges Carpentier regains the European heavyweight championship via a close decision over Charles Weinert...Referee Eugene Corrie scores 6 rounds for the Frenchman, five for the Hungarian and one even...Many dispute the call and Weinert's manager calls for an immediate rematch on neutral ground...At the Scottish National A.C. last evening Colin Morrison (13.7) thrashed Ernst Rosemann (13.13) sending him to the canvas five times...The German seemed to have underestimated the local man and not trained properly, though Morrison looked better than he has in a long while...The night before American Gunboat Smith knocked out Derek Beattie in five innings at the same venue...Smith sails tomorrow for New York on the steamship Ventura...French promoter Albert Nivelle tells a writer for Le Jour he believes Carpentier has lost much of his allure for fans with recent efforts but he is pessimistic of finding another marquee name...Louis Robur had seemed a possibility until his loss to the Englishman Wells...Tresfort lacked any real charisma...A few of the new crop had potential, particularly Marcel Nilles and Paul Journee and even the big Dane Einar Iversen...Across the channel British hope lay with the farmer Frank Goddard and Arthur Townley, both still learning their trade...Scotland's Morrison was now ranked fifth by the EBU, behind Weinert, De Groot, Flint and Wells...As for Otto Flint, his fight with Frank Moran ended in No Decision thanks to a crack of skulls in round two that opened a bloody gash just over Moran's left eye...Englishmen were heartened by news of Tom Cowler's win in Montreal, Canada over Empire champion Colin Bell of Australia, until the National Sporting Club reiterated its order that the title must be fought for in London...They then declared the title vacant and ordered Bombardier Wells and Goddard to battle for it.