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Excerpts from The Glasgow Sporting News July 6-12, 1908...At Hamburg, local hero Otto Flint put away America's Sailor White in six rounds of lightning exchanges. Flint has finally received official recognition as interim EBU heavyweight champion with the understanding he must fight Georges Carpentier should the latter return...At the same time the EBU championship committee cabled Carpentier in Montreal that if he did not return by October he would be stripped of the heavyweight title...Following the end of the European amateur boxing tournament Phil Scott of England is crowned heavyweight champion and Jack Bloomfield, also of England, is middleweight champion...Bloomfield immediately announced he is unable to continue at the weight limit and will be turning pro in January to campaign in the heavyweight class...Charlie Weinert made hash of the young Dane Einar Iversen, putting him away in the fourth round at White City Stadium. Iversen lacks experience and has a porous defence which Weinert exploited from the midpoint of round one until 2:43 of round four. Repeated rights to the head broke Iversen down and if he is to continue in the fight game, he must correct that flaw...At Dublin Packey Mahoney was well ahead on the referee's scorecard when he walked into a roundhouse right from American Al Palzer that reopened a cut suffered in round two and forced the stoppage of their contest in round eight. Mahoney was devastated...In a strikingly similar incident, Frank Goddard had dominated his fight with Matt Killeen at Blackfriar's Ring, knocking him down four times and nearly closing both eyes, when in desperation the Irish lad slung a punch from his shoe tops that dropped Goddard like a stone. Goddard weighed 14st 6lb and Killeen 14st 3lb...At London's Olympia Arena newly arrived Australian heavyweight Dave Hawkes dispatched Art McLaglen in brutal fashion, opening him up with smashes to the face in round one, drawing blood, then sprawling him on the canvas twice in the next, forcing the referee to save McLaglen as he lay helpless on the ropes. Promoter Ray Charrington has already set in motion plans to have Hawkes challenge the top British and European heavyweights...