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From the morning edition of The Barnsley Earwigger November 1907....The heavyweight elimination tournament promoted by Ray Charrington and Albert Nivelle has resulted in a second round of bouts pitting Hungary's "Charlie" Weinert, now based in England, against Emile Masson of France and Colin Morrison of Scotland against the German pugilist Ernst Rosemann...These fights will be held at Holborn Stadium in England with the winners to be matched against each other in Paris in about six months time...Meanwhile, Otto Flint, the acknowledged number one challenger to Georges Carpentier fought a lethargic scrap with a faded Alphonse Dumoulin, finally scoring a knockout in the eighth round...As for Carpentier, "...In a wonderful display of courage European champion Carpentier, outweighed and out-gunned by ex-world title holder Gunboat Smith, put up a terrific effort in his points loss at Los Angeles, California...They battled on even terms for almost eight rounds before Smith's occipital punch began to take its toll, putting the pride of France down for an eight count in round nine...It closed with Carpentier picking himself off the canvas twice more in the final round..."...In what was probably the best fight in a European ring, Australia's Ern Waddy the Empire champion faced the giant Hollander Jan De Groot at Rotterdam and won in a terrific struggle of skill against brawn...The first few rounds were slow as Waddy took the measure of De Groot, slipping punches, inching closer and countering with straight lefts and rights..."...Waddy assumed control from round four opening a cut inside the eyebrow of De Groot. Fourty seconds into round 9 he dropped the big Dutchman for a count of three and reopened the cut around his eye. De Groot is also bleeding inside his mouth. At 51 seconds the referee waved it off and awarded the win to Waddy." At the casino in Dieppe, Matt Killeen of Eire KO'd Louis Robur at 1:35 of round five assuring him of a few large paydays ahead...