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Excerpt from The Glasgow Herald Sept 1907...Leading Irish heavyweight Private Dan Voyles was brought in to give a real test to Scotland's Colin Morrison following his disasterous showing against Empire champion Ern Waddy, and local fans went home happy as Morrison came back from a slow first two rounds to more than hold his own with the hard punching Voyles...Following a furious exchange of blows at the start of the last round, Morrison caught Voyles rushing in with a terrific hook to the head that wrote the end to the battle...At Edinburgh Hall Bombardier Wells showed the result of all his hard work over the last few months since hiring manager James Maloney and trainer Syd Nathan...He looked in superb shape and fought like the Wells of old when he seemed sure to capture world honours...Emile Masson, the Frenchman who knocked him out last July, never stood a chance against this version of the lanky Englishman with dynamite in his fists...Wells weighed 13st 9lb and Masson 13st 7lb...London's West End promoter Ray Charrington and Paris sports impresario Albert Nivelle are said to be behind the proposed heavyweight boxing tournament first suggested by the EBU two weeks ago to produce an interim champion...The series of matches was slated to feature the eight best men in EBU rankings, but Germany's Otto Flint is telling the press he will not be participating as he is already regarded as the number one challenger to the title currently held by Georges Carpentier, now campaigning in America...At Rotterdam big Jan De Groot had it all over Berlin's Ernst Rosemann, knocking him down and opening a bad cut in the 4th round, then reopening the cut in the very next round...Blood gushing from the wound over his left eye, Rosemann protested when the Dutch official awarded a technical knockout to De Groot...Charlie Weinert (13.6), now fighting out of England, got a rematch with the burly Frenchman Fernand Tresfort (15.5) and wore him out with constant movement and accurate flurries of punches, winning the decision by a wide margin...Tresfort collapsed from exhaustion in his corner as the result was announced...In a double bill at London's Blackfriars Ring Frank Goddard KO'd Louis Robur and Robert Bayle outboxed the Irish slugger Matt Killeen over eight innings ending Killeen's winning streak at ten bouts...