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The win last evening of Melbourne's Pat Doran over first division star Sid Neilsen has thrown the heavyweight class into turmoil and likely put the kibosh on any plans Hugh McIntosh had to match Neilsen and Albert Kid Lloyd for the vacant championship...Lloyd's easy victory over George Stirling at Melbourne Stadium lands him in the enviable position to pressure McIntosh and Sydney Stadium to show him in their next big card...Neilsen (13.1) had much the best of the first four rounds at Ballarat Athletic Hall, but he tired from the slugging...Doran (13.12), the big Melbournian, then took the lead, and ultimately knocked him out in the seventh round of a fast and hard contest...The man behind the punch came out on top in the Walsh-Howard stoush at the Golden Gate Club, Sydney a few evenings ago...Bill Walsh, the Melbournian, weighed 13st. 10lb.; Jack Howard, Sydneysider, 14st. 2lb. Howard, a former champion is the more experienced man, while Walsh is hard and dogged, and can shoot a punch that looks as if it would sink a ship...Howard worked his man patiently, landing heavy blows to the belly and kidneys, till a shock in round 4 nearly lifted him out of his boots...Howard was never the same man after that...Another shocker in round 8 sent him sprawling on the canvas and he just beat the count...A booming left hook in the tenth put him on his back and this time he failed to answer the call...At the Brisbane Sporting Club Dave Hawkes, the rugged Queenslander, gave Bill Costello, a veteran Newcastle lad of considerable repute, the two ends and the middle of a hiding on Saturday night. Hawkes, who weighed 14.3 to his opponent's 13.9, was very aggressive from the start, and after flooring Bill on several occasions, put him to sleep by aid of a right on the chin in the 4th round...In a rematch of their draw last October, Alec Pooley, fighting in front of his home folks, eluded the wild swings of big Bill Turner and drove home lefts and rights to the head and neck for ten rounds, closing Turner's eyes and taking a neat decision from referee Paddy Basto...Pooley had been promised a match with either Jim Tracey or George Cook should he prevail over "The Taz Tiger"...Dave Sonter the Victorian in and outer may have sent Kelly Mansfield into retirement yesterday when he took almost every one of their ten rounds at Lithgow Hall...Dave's record stands at 19-7-2 while Mansfield falls to 21-19-4...