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Notes from reporters of The Toronto Telegram May 18 to 22...A stormy April kept fans away from the box office for the most part but things picked up considerably in May...On Monday at the Coliseum, Sam Langford tangled with the big Englishman Tom Cowler...With a left swing that started from below the waist and landed almost flush on Cowler's jaw, Langford had Tom slumped in a corner helpless in the final minute of their scheduled twelve round bout for Cowler's Empire title. Referee Francis stepped in and saved the Englishman as Sam was about to apply the sleep inducer. Cowler had found himself on the floor in various positions six times and once through the ropes...On Tuesday evening European champion Georges Carpentier and Australia's Ern Waddy met for ten rounds at Montreal's Mount Royal Arena. Carpentier's manager Francois DesChamps explained Georges' performance against his younger opponent by saying his boy was recovering from a bout of food poisoning he blamed on the local cuisine. Still, Carpentier managed to take four of the first five rounds despite Waddy's dogged work inside. From round six on however, the rugged Australian seized control and swept the second half of the fight, sending the Orchid Man to the canvas once in the ninth and again in the tenth, taking the decision...Wednesday evening a sizeable crowd at the St Denis Street Gym in Montreal saw Wilfrid Gagne face Soldier Jones in a match carded for ten. Jones came out swinging for the fences and tagged Gagne in a wild exchange at ring centre. Gagne gamely fought back but it was clear he was on Wobbly Street. At 2:51 Jones connected with a haymaker and Gagne crumbled like stale bread and took the fatal ten. The crowd was stunned into silence by the sudden demise of their favourite. Jones weighed 181 and Gagne 189¼...On the same night Frank O'Malley squared off with fellow Irish-Canadian Ned O'Mara at the Hamilton Forum. O'Mara the next day felt much the worse for wear following the whipping given him by The Pride of Corktown that night. Frank stopped his opponent in the ninth stanza after making a chopping block of him. It was easily one of O'Malley's best showings...In a brutal slam-bang battle last night at downtown Toronto's Mutual Street Arena Charlie Gage fought unbeaten Bud Gorman of Kenosha, Wisconsin. Both men took considerable punishment for eight rounds but it was a short right uppercut in the ninth that caught Gorman flush and dropped him in his own corner as though he'd been shot...One outspoken supporter of the visiting American cried loud and long that Gorman had been deliberately fouled and the referee had ignored it. No one else saw any low blows from either man...Gage had weighed in at 190½ and Gorman at a sleek 195...On the undercard of the Waddy-Carpentier fight Clyde Parker the East Preston Bulldog won a decisive points decision over Sgt. Harry Rolph in eight rounds. In the first preliminary young Jack Renault took a one-sided win over the veteran Clonie McFadden after six...Last week in Ottawa Wild Bert Kenny outpointed Arthur Pelkey in a bout carded for ten rounds. Kenny just outhustled Pelkey and clinched whenever Pelkey tried to work inside. It was the latter's third straight loss this year...On the other side of the country Magnus Halderson, self-proclaimed Western Canadian heavyweight champion, faced off with Blackie McDonald of Winnipeg for the third time, having stopped him twice before. This time however the tables were turned and McDonald put the boots to Magnuson, forcing a technical knockout in the middle of the second canto...Canadian Press reports indicate that George Stanley has departed Australia with fellow boxer Lee Anderson for Vancouver. Stanley is said to be eager to avenge his previous loss to Halderson...(Ed. Looks like the typesetters at the Telegram were enjoying a drop of the creature and proof readers missed it)