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From The Chicago Daily News July late edition 1907...Frank Moran sails from England on the Noranda for New York City with little to show for his efforts overseas...A booking agent for one of the smaller venues offers him a thousand bucks to fight hulking Al Palzer in two weeks time and Moran jumps at it...In a spectacular slugging match Chicago's Bill Brennan (198½) knocks out Harlem's terror John Lester Johnson (181¾) after both hit the canvas in the first round...Luther McCarty, now holder of the greatest title in sports, sits ringside and sends word to Brennan's manager offering to defend his championship against the ex-steelworker in two months time...Up there in Montreal, Harry Wills the New Orleans phantom uncharacteristically tore into the brutish looking Australian Colin Bell and made his corner cry "uncle" inside two rounds...Bell claimed a twisted ankle in round one made him unfit for further combat...Sadly for Harry there was no offer to fight the world champion at the end...The young western pugilist Jack Dempsey is saddled with a manager named John "The Barber" Reisler who seems incapable of matching his protege with anyone who can push Dempsey into the limelight...Most recently Dempsey pummeled into submission one Angel Rodriguez of Uruguay, a smallish nation in the South American continent...Dempsey seems to be the real goods as they say, but fighting in a marshy backwater like Florida against an unknown pug just won't cut it with the big boys in New York and Chi-town...At Detroit South Afrika's Boer Rodel had it all over Alf Langford of Boston who often bills himself as Sam's cousin...Rodel stopped Alf with a minute left in the eighth round of their scuffle, adding his name to the list of men who have beaten the Boston prize fighter in the last year...Alf should either change his last name or consider a new line of work...Gunboat Smith has popped up again, back home in Frisco where he cut up Jim Barry so bad after five rounds even Barry had to ask his corner to throw in the towel...