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From The Montreal Daily Star July 1907...In a thrilling rematch of their fight last December, stopped in the tenth round by a cut, Arthur Pelkey and Frank O'Malley crashed together last evening at Toronto's Diamond Park...In a scheduled 12 round defence of his Canadian championship Pelkey expected to go home early again, and he did, but not the way he hoped...The two battled for most of the night at ring center with neither man willing to give an inch, trading damaging short arm punches inside...In the fifth round they smashed heads and O'Malley was cut around the left eye but quick work by his corner closed it up in time to answer the bell...Pelkey took the sixth round with savage blows to the gut that drew grunts from the Corktown lad, but most at ringside saw that the champion had shot his bolt...Pelkey came out of his corner stiff-legged and walked into a buzzsaw from a rejuvenated O'Malley who landed six terrific blows to the body, neck and head, the last a right on the point of the jaw that brought Pelkey to his knees, then sprawled on his face...From ring announcer Billy Cook, "The time, two minutes and twenty seconds of the seventh round, the winner by knockout and new Canadian heavyweight champion, Frank O'Malley!"...At which point Babe O'Halloran tore up his betting slips and tossed them in the air...In the semi windup O'Malley's stablemate Charlie Gage (190¼) took on tough Bert Kenny (186½) in a wild free-for-all that saw Gage cut in round seven, made worse by Kenny butting him in round eight, followed by a beauty of an uppercut that drops Kenny for six...The East Coaster is taking the tenth by a wide margin when he gets dumped by another short uppercut and barely makes it to the bell...Referee Joe Popp scores rounds 1, 6 and 10 for Kenny, 5 and 7 even and the rest for Gage making Charlie the winner...Out west, Magnus Halderson defends his claim to a Western Canadian title against fellow Albertan "Cowboy Bill" Taylor and loses by decision 6-3-1...On an otherwise solid card in Montreal, Wilfrid Gagne got the hometown nod over George DeBray, ending the Hamilton boy's winning streak at seven..."It was a good run while it lasted," said DeBray afterwards, "I've reached the end of the line and will probably call it quits while I still have my wits about me."...Two six rounders showcased prospects Clyde Parker and Joe Burke of Nova Scotia...