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From The Tacoma Western Courier October 8, 1904...Supporters of Gunboat Smith are stunned to see their man go down to defeat without giving himself a chance to show his mettle...Experts feel he threw away his best chance to win by deciding not to use his ring science against the mighty gnome-like champion, instead looking to surprise him by attacking right out of the gate...Sam Langford reacted like the true warrior he is, avoiding his opponent's rush and countering with explosive power, dropping Smith to his knees for a count of six...The rest seemed a foregone conclusion as the Californian fought mostly on retreat from that point on...The end came in the eleventh round when Smith, one eye closed and his nose and mouth bloody, visited the canvas three times in quick succession, forcing the referee to halt the contest and award a technical knockout to Langford...Amazingly, a check of the one official scorecard showed Francis had scored it 5 to 2 for Langford with three rounds even...No one, except maybe Smith's manager, saw it anywhere near that....

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I thought that Langford would be to much for Smith, now we wait and see who steps up as his next challenger.

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Good to see this still going + graphics too

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From the sporting pages of the evening edition of The Glasgow Herald October 4, 1904...There were several interesting glove contests during the previous weeks, first amongst them the sensational first round knockout of Norway's Bjarni Thorsen (14st 2lbs) by Georges Carpentier (12st 9lbs) in defence of his EBU title belt..Thorsen was caught completely by surprise by the rushing tactics of the Frenchman, and two swift blows to the head proved his undoing...The end came some fourty-five seconds after the opening gong and left many of the Salle Wagram's patrons in shock...The second match of significance to British fans was Tom Cowler's victory over the Battling Scotsman, Derek Beattie which was stopped in the 8th inning due to a worsening cut above the eye...Based on the referee's scoring up to that mark, it would have taken a knockout for Beattie to overcome Cowler's lead on points...Curious details have emerged regarding Tommy Burns' recent defence of the Empire title at the NSC...It appears Boer Rodel's manager approached Burns prior to the fight and asked him to carry Rodel for a few rounds for the benefit of moving pictures, part of the profits of which were going to Rodel...In the second round, perhaps spurred on by the urging of the assemblage, the South Afrikan attempted to deliver a knockout blow and sent the champion to the canvas...When Burns regained his feet Rodel charged at him and received a terrific right hander to the jaw, and from then on Tommy made the bigger man pay for his attempted double-cross, finally putting a finish to it with four rounds remaining...A new European threat appeared in a Paris ring last week when Germany's Otto Flint demolished local hero Alphonse Dumoulin in front of a packed house of his rabid fans...Flint (13.5) is now 16-2-0 with 8 KOs, Dumoulin (13.11) falls to 16-4-1(9) with his second consecutive knockout loss...At Dublin's Theatre Royal Jim Coffey added to his pugilistic fame with a fairly one-sided knockout of rival Packey Mahoney, perhaps setting up a bout with uncrowned Irish champion PO Matt Curran...England's Bombardier Wells suffered a crushing defeat at Holborn Arena when, after leading by an enormous margin, he walked into a desperate swing from American Alf Langford and was laid out flat on his back taking the full count before being carried back to his corner...

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An excerpt from The Melbourne Age October 5, 1904....Pressure from the ANZBF to defend his title belt moves Jack Howard to abandon his North Sydney hotel for a time to take on sixth ranked Peter Kling (The mandate was to defend against one from the commission's top ten) who had made respectable showings in his last two outings...Kling made a good enough show of it to be guaranteed a place on promoter Hugh McIntosh's next card...One much anticipated contest was the meeting at Adelaide between Number One contender Ern Waddy (13.2) of that town and former Queensland state middleweight champion Jerry Jerome (11.8)...Though past his best form, the amazing aboriginal fighter put up a terrific effort in an extremely close battle, losing on the referee's scorecard by five rounds to four with one even..."Waddy showed great improvement in ring generalship and punching accuracy", said Jerome to a reporter after the match...At Hobart Athletic Hall, Bill Lang revived his flagging career with a shocking third round knockout of the "Taz Tiger" big Bill Turner...At 14st 6lb and almost six foot four, Turner loomed over the former Australasian champ, but failed to use his size to advantage, taking heavy blows to the ribs and kidneys, before being chopped down by wicked hooks to the head...Lang easily avoided most of Turner's wide winging punches and placed his own shorter ones where they did the most damage...Visiting South Afrikan contender Gawi de Klerk gave George Stirling of Cobar more than his money's worth in their scrap at the Metropolitan A.C., taking the first three rounds with a hurricane assault, before Stirling rebounded to win the next three...In the seventh a pile-driver to the body seemed to take the fight out of Stirling, and in the next the Australian shattered his right hand so badly he was unable to continue...Auckland's sporting hall saw rising prospect Alec Pooley take his revenge on Gisborne's Dan McNamee with a clear points decision, erasing a disputed draw from last April at Timaru...Tall and solidly built, young Pooley shows signs of perhaps becoming the finest all-round boxer to come out of New Zealand since the late Harry Laing...Late news off the wire Melbourne's Pat Doran who had shown great promise in the professional ranks was knocked out by city rival Bill Walsh in the final minute of their eight round fight at St. George's Hall, Perth...Doran's punches seemed to lose their snap as the rounds wore down...

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From the afternoon edition of The Calgary Herald October 7th, 1904...Danny Whitebear, Canadian heavyweight champion, lost that title to Charlie Robinson in the 9th round of a slugging match in the ring of the Winnipeg Auditorium...Whitebear was not knocked out, but he was so badly beaten by the "Black Cyclone" during the last three rounds of whirlwind fighting that he could not continue further...He was practically out when veteran referee Cappy Smart stepped between the two men just as the champion's corner threw in the towel to rescue their man...Halifax promoter Willie MacLellan's final card of the year brought together Bill Mackinnon (183) and Art Beaudoin (196 1-2) in a rubber match, the two gladiators having exchanged victories in 1902...Mackinnon played it cautiously, out-boxing the French-Canadien for the first three rounds, then trying to press matters vigourously in round four...Around the fifth stanza the Montreal boy started landing more often with power while getting little of effect in return...A series of uppercuts capped by a hard right over the heart and another to the ribs shook the local favourite and signalled the beginning of the end...Two minutes and thirty-three seconds into the ninth round Beaudoin landed a haymaker on the jaw that dropped Mackinnon in his own corner like a sack of dead fish and the battle was over...On the undercard James 'Sailor' Burke took five rounds to put away Toronto's Frank Laura, setting up a likely match with Beaudoin in Montreal...At Massey Hall in Toronto Arthur Pelkey (205) halted the win streak of Bill "Blackie" McDonald (198 1-4) with a fifth round technical knockout and former amateur champion Frank O'Malley took a six round decision over city rival Bill Doleman...At Montreal's Westmount Arena Al Lambert (190 1-2) copped the points win over Laurie Mackenzie (189 1-4) after eight sizzling rounds...Lambert later told reporters he has signed to fight local boy (14-5-3) Wilfrid Gagne who won over Silas Green on the same card...

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From the The Buffalo Evening Courier, November 8, 1904...Joe Jeannette easily controls the action in his second defence of the American Boxing Association heavyweight title with Philadelphia's ring phenom Battling Levinsky at McGuigan's Arena in New Jersey...Levinsky manages to land a few clean blows but they have almost no effect on the champion and he gets several hard shots in return...From the sixth round on it becomes apparent Jeannette can end the fight when he likes and Levinsky decides to stay the limit which results in few exchanges and howls from the assembled crowd...Referee Charlie White scores nine rounds for Jeannette, two for the challenger and one even...At Brooklyn's Clermont Avenue Arena Tom Kennedy survives an early knockdown to squeak out a decision over Michigan's Al Kubiak after eight rounds...A clumsy novice giant named Jess Willard out of Pottawatomie, Kansas appears on the undercard of the Tom McMahon-Dave Sawyer fight and stumbles out of the gate, taking a thumping from Dave "Bulldog" Wilson of Philadelphia before getting his wits about him and turning the tables on Wilson, starching him seconds into the 4th round with a thundering right uppercut...Jim Cameron, the Los Angeles heavyweight, improves his record to 19-4-3 (13) with a technical knockout of Dave Sinclair in three lightning rounds, his third win since dropping a points verdict to Luther McCarty last December...That loss was his first since March of 1902...A wire service report details the signing of articles between NABF champion Gunboat Smith and the "Oklahoma Brakeman" Carl Morris to meet in two weeks at Winterland Arena in San Francisco...

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From the December 1904 issue of Mitt Slingers Magazine...IBU Rankings released following Gunboat Smith's technical knockout of Carl Morris in the 9th round at Winterland Arena in San Francisco...Some interesting contests coming in the New Year...Dependent on his win over Morris, Smith has agreed to a 12 round bout with Joe Jeannette, the winner to face Sam Langford in the summer in an open air match at Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition...Bill Lang is sailing on the White Star liner Suevic to England at the invitation of the National Sporting Club to challenge Tommy Burns for the British Empire championship in what many predict will be Burns' final bout before retiring to his many enterprises in Western Canada...London promoter Ray Charington is reportedly in negotiations with Georges Carpentier to defend his EBU title belt against Cumberland's Tom Cowler at the newly built White City Stadium in London...Australasian heavyweight champion Jack Howard has agreed to defend his laurels against Adelaide's Ern Waddy his number one challenger at Sydney Stadium two weeks after the Sheffield Shield cricket finals...Luther McCarty is scheduled to meet Al Palzer again over 12 rounds at Tom McCarey's Naud Junction Pavilion probably in March...Jeff Clarke is considering a lucrative offer from an Argentine promoter for a three fight deal in the Buenos Aires area against local talent...

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From the morning edition of The Barnsley Earwigger January 7th, 1905...Few if any of the thousands who witnessed the battle for the Empire heavyweight title last night expected the shocking outcome when referee Eugene Corri halted the action in the 9th round and awarded the victory to the Australian "Bill" Lang over the diminutive Canadian Tommy Burns...The now former champion and his seconds were stunned when Corri called a halt because of a seeping wound over the eye and most of the assembled boxing cognoscenti felt Burns had been comfortably ahead at the time of the stoppage, and none saw the need...Imagine their surprise when Corri's scorecard revealed he had Lang ahead on points...However, due to his exemplary reputation, Mister Corri's decision was beyond questioning...Just a few days before, a similar shock was delivered when the young unbeaten Irishman Jim Coffey was knocked out cold inside the first round by the aging Norwegian plodder Bjarni Thorsen...After a brief spar Coffey landed two good ones to the head, then paused to admire his work, at which point Thorsen crashed an overhand right to the younger man's temple sprawling him full on his face for ten and then some...Tom Cowler and his new manager former world champion James J Corbett are said to be mulling over a cabled offer by Sydney promoters Ed Hall and Silver Jack Matthews to tour Australia and New Zealand instead of a potential European championship shot in May at White City Stadium...Meanwhile visiting American heavyweights Jim Stewart, Soldier Kearns and Alf Langford are considering a return to the States after a marginally profitable European engagement despite offers from Parisian impresarios to headline at two of the better venues in the City of Light...

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Clipping from The Scotsman January 1905...The Morrison camp demands a return go...

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From The Australian Star January 25, 1905...As previously reported, Jack Howard will defend his Australasian heavyweight championship against Adelaide's Ern Waddy at Sydney Stadium in a fortnight, following the Sheffield Shield cricket final which should take place in two days time...Both men are in the midst of rigorous training and should be in the pink when they climb through the ropes the 10th of next month...Howard expects to scale near 13 and 6 while Waddy should be about 4 pounds lighter than that...The two camps have agreed to five ounce gloves with hand bandages and rubber mouth guards and have accepted Melbourne's Sam Grimwood as ring arbiter...Promoter Hugh McIntosh promises a good gate for the fight with 70% going to the fighters, 60% of which will go to Howard win or lose...Howard and Waddy have each posted £250 with this office as forfeits for their appearance, and substantial side wagers have been made...There is talk of matching Colin Bell "The Moree Mountain" and Pat Doran in two months time provided they don't lose to anyone else meantime...At Melbourne Arena Pierre Coetzer the burly South Afrikan stopped Charlie Horn of America in three rounds and is looking for a return go with the other Yank Dan Daly provided a suitable venue and purse can be found...A shocker occurred at Hobart City when Victoria's Dave Sonter forced a stoppage of local hero Bill Turner "The Taz Tiger"...Turner has not seemed on his game since losing to Jack Howard over a year ago and may need some time away...There was a novice card at the Gaiety Athletic Hall the other evening and featured several likely looking prospects including two New Zealand lads Alec Pooley and Wally Evans and a pair of Sydney boys, Sid Neilsen and six foot three Jim Tracey...Just in from the cable service, Tony Ross of Philadelphia has outpointed South Afrika's former champion Ron Anderson over 10 rounds at Johannesburg...Ross (13.12) had Anderson (13.2) on the mat three times but couldn't keep him there...

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Clipped from the morning edition of The Halifax Chronicle January 26, 1905...Canadian boxing fans are still recovering from the news of Tommy Burns' defeat in London by Bill Lang as they pay off their 'sure thing' wagers to pools...As for Burns he mulls over the loss and decides it may be time to retire...In Halifax supporters of local mitt artist James 'Sailor' Burke celebrate far into the night following his sensational second round knockout of Montreal's Art Beaudoin, upsetting tremendous odds favouring the big French-Canadian...Winnipeg promoter Lou Silverman had made plans for his protégé Charlie Robinson to defend his Canadian title belt against the popular Montrealer but figured Burke would pose no real threat to his primary meal-ticket and seemed a credible opponent as far as the fight public was concerned...Based on reports from ringside, Silverman reckoned Beaudoin had simply aged overnight as some do and put little stock in Eastern sportswriters glowing accounts of the Sailor's improvement as a fighter...The fact Robinson had managed a draw with highly rated Jeff Clarke the week before only made the "Winnipeg Cyclone" an even bigger marquee name for the Orpheum...Coaltown promoter Leo Roberts is dismayed to hear his principal headliner Al Lambert had lost to Roddie MacDonald by a lop-sided decision at Glace Bay's Wonderland Arena the previous day, throwing a large spanner into the works for his planned card in February...In Toronto's Coliseum, former national champion Danny Whitebear suffered another loss, this time a tough decision to Arthur Pelkey, an opponent most fight experts had assumed he could handle...Across town at Massey Hall newcomer Frank O'Malley featured in his first main event winning a technical knockout over veteran Charlie Fraser when referee Joe Popp decided the bloodied Fraser had had enough...A wire report from far-off California announced Luther McCarty's stoppage win over the Iowa giant Al Palzer at Naud Junction Pavilion...From the fourth round until the sixth, when referee Billy Roche stepped in, Palzer had been reduced to a claret spattered punching bag...At Chicago Porky Flynn outpointed L.A.'s "Black Hercules" Jim Cameron over 8 fast rounds 5 rounds to 4, dashing Cameron's immediate hopes of a rematch with McCarty...

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From the colourful pages of USA Boxing magazine for February 1905...Heated disputes between the managers of North American heavyweight champ Gunboat Smith and Joe Jeannette will delay the meeting of the two gladiators for at least a month as the fight's promoter looks to provide a venue agreeable to both camps...After his TKO of Tom McCarty at Pittsburgh, Frank Moran joins Jeannette's camp as one of a group of spar-mates to make a few bucks and pick up some pointers from the American heavyweight champ...As to his fight with "The Montana Cowpuncher" McCarty, Moran tells the press, "He's a good strong fella, but he can't hit hard enough to break an egg."; this despite the fact McCarty had knocked him down in the first round...The Westerner protested the stoppage at ringside, saying he was on his feet at the count of seven when the referee waved the fight over..Following big Carl Morris' vicious eight round gruelling of Newark native Sailor White, many prominent eastern newspapers begin to herald him as The Great American Hope and push for a fight with either Jeff Clarke or Luther McCarty to settle the issue...Though Clarke is on a steamship headed for Argentina, McCarty and his manager are more than willing to accommodate the burly Oklahoman...At the Empire A.C. in the Bronx, In a somewhat surprising turn of events, Bill Brennan (196 1-2) found himself on the losing end of a decision by referee Tim Hurst, despite scoring the only knockdown in his fight with Tom Kennedy (201) and winning most of the exchanges from the 3rd round on...

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From the weekly British Boxing news the quarterly list of prime challengers for the European heavyweight championship...Tom Cowler and manager Gentleman Jim Corbett have reached agreement with Georges Carpentier and his manager Francois Deschamps to meet in May in an open-air 12 round bout at White City Stadium promoted by London's Ray Charrington with a purse of £3,000 and a percentage of the gate to be split 60% to the winner....Tickets begin going on sale in one week and both men will open their training camps outside London one week later...Eugene Corri, respected at both home and on the continent, is very likely to be selected to act as referee...At Holborn Stadium Bombardier Billy Wells delighted British boxing fans by pulling out a points win over Germany's Otto Flint putting him down twice in the final round...In Amsterdam's Velodrome national hero Jan De Groot (13st 10lbs) ran his win streak to 15 straight with a 10 round decision over Eire's Private Dan Voyles (13st 5lbs) and has reportedly signed to fight Scotland's Derek Beattie who recently lost to the American Alf Langford in front of a hometown crowd...Rising star Jim Coffey the "Roscommon Giant" had his hopes crushed at Dublin's Theater Royal when he took a thrashing from PO Matty Curran, going down once in the 7th, twice in the 9th and twice more in the 10th when he took the full count...Sadly for the Connacht lad, he had been looking like a champion from the first round through the sixth when the floor suddenly gave way under him...Curran weighed 13 stone 8 pounds and Coffey 14 stone 1 pound...On the same card Dublin's own Bartley Madden entered the EBU rankings with a knockout of city rival Finn O'Flaherty...In front of a standing room only crowd at the Salle Wagram in Paris, Charlie Weinert, the former amateur champion of Hungary and Austria, won in lightning style over local favourite Marc Gaucher and will probably fight Germany's Ernst Rosemann next...

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From the afternoon edition of The Ballarat Independent March 1st, 1905...After several delays Jack Howard and Ern Waddy finally came together at Rushcutters Bay to battle for the heavyweight championship of Australia and New Zealand...Unfortunately, despite laudable efforts by both men, and considerable punishment handed out, the result was a draw rendered by promoter and referee Hugh MacIntosh...Waddy had been put down in rounds six and seven for long counts and Howard had visited the canvas for short counts in the 9th and twice again in the 12th, but neither had done enough to dominate the other...Most agreed that while Waddy landed more frequently, Howard had inflicted the heavier blows...At Sydney's Metropolitan Athletic Club Jerry Jerome stunned the small crowd with a knockout of Peter Kling 45 seconds into round one...Jerome feinted with his left then struck a right to the point of Kling's jaw and it was over...It was noted that Kling had not worked up a sweat prior to the first bell...On a novice card held at Victoria Hall, Melbourne, former Victoria State amateur champion Albert 'Kid' Lloyd made his pro debut in a 4-rd preliminary by knocking out veteran Mick Flaherty half way through the first round...In the main bout Sid Neilsen of Millers Point and Wally Evans the New Zealand lad boxed six fast rounds to a draw, much to the surprise of punters who had wagered heavily on Neilsen to win easily...Former world champion Peter Jackson and one-time Australasian title-holder Billy McCall have joined the ranks of instructors at the Griffo Boxing School in Sydney and Melbourne respectively...Their fellow instructors include Frank Slavin, Billy Smith, Americans Hank Griffin and Young Peter Jackson...The school has already turned out several leading contenders and expects good things from the next crop...

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Excerpt from The Montreal Daily Star March, 1905...The Charlie Robinson - Arthur Pelkey fight for the former's Canadian heavyweight championship belt ended in some disappointment for the 2,000 fight fans who braved the foul weather to take in the show at the Winnipeg Ice Rink...Thanks to an accidental clash of heads in the fifth round, a gash opened in Pelkey's forehead and grew worse under the ripping lefts of the champion...In the eighth round RNWMP sergeant Edgar Millen, seated at ringside, ordered the referee to stop the fight and, after making a show of consulting his scorecard, Eddie Palmer raised Robinson's arm in victory...A stringer for Mitt Slingers Magazine found that Palmer had given Robinson 5 rounds, one to Pelkey and scored one even...James 'Sailor' Burke, Robinson's original opponent, had been forced to back out after sustaining an injury to his arm while out on the water helping his kid brother Joe hauling in his nets a week earlier...Last year's Pacific Coast Games silver medalist at 79 kilos Magnus Halderson of Edmonton, Alberta decided to skip the Empire Games in Quebec City, and turned pro as a heavyweight with the backing of the Dominion Boxing Foundation and its Edmonton academy...Appearing on the undercard at the Empire Theatre, he boxed a four round draw with Jack Adams, another western novice...It was a good day for Nova Scotians as Roddie MacDonald forced a stoppage of Montreal's Art Beaudoin at Glace Bay's Wonderland Arena, and Dan "Hardrock" MacDonald dropped Al Lambert three times in round nine to get an automatic technical knockout in front of hundreds of screaming fans at the Old Halifax Forum...In the semi windup of the Robinson-Pelkey scrap, towering Fred Mckay managed to knock Danny Whitebear clear through the ropes where he was counted out by Eddie Palmer in round 4...Mckay tipped the Fairbanks at 210 pounds, Whitebear at a pudgy 198...At Toronto's Armouries arena Frank Osborne (194 1-4) stopped Steamboat Bill Scott (185) on cuts in the fifth round and challenged Frank O'Malley at ringside to meet him over eight rounds in the same ring...O'Malley had just boxed a draw with Frank Laura in the previous bout...Chummy Banks has returned home from a tour of London and Paris with enough siller in his poke to retire and open a hardware store in his native Cobalt...Horace Jones of Gaspe, Quebec won the Provincial amateur light heavyweight title last evening and may turn pro next year following his hitch in the Canadian reserves...

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From the evening edition of The Los Angeles Herald March, 1905...Litigation was brought against Joe Jeannette and the promoters of his fight with Gunboat Smith by one George Little, one-time manager of Jack Johnson, Sandy Ferguson and others. He claims to have an ironclad contract with Jeannette that is to run until May of next year, threatens trouble and says that unless he is suitably compensated he will stop the fight and drag Jeannette into the courts...Co-Promoters Jimmy Cafferty of Oakland and Bert Woodhall of the Metropolitan A.C., New York, tell the press the claim has no validity and will only serve to delay the contest...The NABF, the sanctioning body involved, has met with lawyers and make it clear the fight will go on and all previously purchased tickets will be honoured...At Minneapolis the giant ex-plasterer Fred Fulton (210) won a technical knockout in six rounds over Denver Jack Geyer (187), improving his record to 12-0-1 with nine knockouts...Geyer had gone all of last year without a loss and had wins over Joe Costello, George England and the Canadian Ross Delaney among others; ten of his fifteen wins coming by way of knockout...In the semi windup fellow Minnesotan Billy Miske outpointed the veteran Harry Wuest in six...Al Palzer bounced back from his loss to Luther McCarty with a convincing 8-round decision over Tom McMahon in the latter's backyard...In another Philly card, Battling Jim Johnson forced a stoppage of Battling Levinsky with less than a minute remaining...At the Atlantic Club in Newark, New Jersey, Sailor White found himself on the losing end of a decision in a sloppy fight with six foot six Jess Willard of Kansas...White had trouble getting past the telephone pole straight left of the two hundred fifty pound colossus and collapsed in his corner at the end of the eighth round...

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Observations from the ringside notebook of Walt Sanders of Mitt Slingers Magazine at the Smith-Jeannette NABF title fight staged at Madison Square Garden in New York...By fight time odds have swung in favour of Joe Jeannette...A notorious slow starter, Jeannette has lost the first four rounds to clever ring craft of Gunboat Smith...Smith has stuck to his corner's plan to box and move, using his sharp left jab followed by well-timed right cross...Jeannette takes an explosive right hand to the head that put him on the canvas in round three...Joe returns the favour in round six and Smith beats the count at eight...Spectacular exchanges almost too swift to follow in rounds seven, eight, nine and ten with momentum swinging back and forth...Jeannette's left eye is closed and there is blood at nose and mouth...Smith has nasty cut above his right eye and swelling around his left...Angry red welts on his right side from Joe's body punches...Jeannette tries for a knockout and lands enough to take round 11...The gunner sees an opening and floors Jeannette again halfway through the final round but Joe staggers up before referee Patsy Haley can reach ten...Ring announcer calls it seven rounds for Smith and five for Jeannette...NY Times calls it a draw, the NY Evening World sees it for Smith and the Newark Eagle has Jeannette the winner...The next day at the office a cable arrives reporting Bombardier Billy Wells has beaten Australia's Bill Lang at the National Sporting Club, London and is the new British Empire champion despite narrowly escaping a knockout in the final thirty seconds and needing to be helped to his dressing room...The NSC informs the press that all future contests for the Empire championship must take place within their confines...Jeff Clarke is thrown into the ring shortly after disembarking at Buenos Aires but still manages to pull off a win over Heriberto Rojas of Santiago, Chile, the former Latin American champion...

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Morning Extra edition of The Glasgow Herald May 16, 1905... Major Upset At White City Stadium...lightly regarded Tom Cowler of England captures European heavyweight crown with surprising win over Frenchman Georges Carpentier...Cowler (14st 10lb) hurts Carpentier (12st 9lb) early on then scores finisher in last seconds of round ten...English giant suffers ugly cut in round six that very nearly ended his chances, while now ex-champion battles on with one eye completely closed unable to see knockout blow...Carpentier is carried from the ring and regains senses fifteen minutes later...At London's National Sporting Club Bombardier Billy Wells (14st 2lb) defends Empire title with lopsided win over a worn-out James "Gunner" Moir (14st 8lb) at 1:54 of round seven...In an elimination battle to find a challenger for the Scottish heavyweight title Colin Morrison of Kilmarnock KO'd veteran Sandy MacNab of Inverness in round nine at the Scots National A.C. and will have a return go with the current titleholder Derek Beattie in July...Beattie is coming off a fifth round stoppage of top European contender Jan De Groot of the Netherlands...De Groot was 17-1-1 going into the scheduled 10 round bout and a win would have assured him a crack at the EBU title sometime this year...Bartley Madden handed America's Soldier Kearns a terrific beating last Thursday hours after fellow countryman Jim Coffey did the same for Alf Langford the Boston heavyweight who claims to be the great Sam Langford's cousin...In Berlin Ernst Rosemann ended the eleven bout unbeaten streak of Hungary's Charlie Weinert 2:12 into the first round...In less sensational fashion, Otto Flint thrilled the hometown volk at the Hamburg Sportplatz by earning the decision over Fred Storbeck of South Afrika...George 'Boer' Rodel may have ended Bill Lang's chances of regaining the Empire title by putting him away in four rounds at the Royal Albert Hall...

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From the sport section of The Kalgoorlie Sun May 12, 1905....Promoter Silver Jack Matthews imports South Afrika's heavyweight champion Mattius Obopu to test the sinew of the current Australasian heavyweight title holder big Jack Howard and packs them in at the Old Tin Shed at Rushcutters Bay...Howard, in the pink of condition weighs in at 13 stone 12 pounds and Obopu tips the scales ringside at 13 stone 8 without an ounce of superfluous flesh on his six foot frame...Round one is a recce as both look to see what the other has and no serious damage is done...Both rush from their corners at the next bell and battle is joined in earnest...Howard lashes out left and right and drives Obopu back, but the Afrikan retaliates and the crowd is up on its feet baying for blood...In the third stanza they meet skull to skull and Obopu gets the worst of it as his right eye starts to swell...The tide swings back and forth through rounds four to seven with plenty of punishment meted out, but the edge seems to go to the Sydney lad as he busts up his valiant opponent, opening a cut over the right eye that sprays gore on the white shirt of referee Arthur Scott and reporters at ringside...Obopu comes back in round eight but spends the last of his strength in trying to knockout his powerful foe and falters in round nine as another cut is opened under the same eye...A terrible right uppercut staggers him seconds into the final round but he refuses to go down and trades punches until the gong sounds the end...Scott's card reads six rounds Howard four rounds Obopu and the Australian raises his opponent's hand to acknowledge a brave fighter...At Maitland Stadium Colin Bell endures an early scragging from visiting Yank Dan Daly and gradually wears the giant down with body blows, putting him on the canvas twice in the eighth round when his corner skies in the towel...Outweighed by more than two stone, Jerry Jerome suffers a points loss over ten rounds to towering Bill Turner at Hobart...After he sat with reporters, Jerome laughed, "That Bill Turner fella's just too big a knob to climb for a little man like me. Maybe I'll bring a step ladder next time."...The mob at the Golden Gate Club saw the potential realized with Melbourne's Pat Doran as he mopped the floor with Peter Kling and put him through the ropes where he lay as the referee signaled an end to it at 2:43 of round one...The scribbler for the Sydney Referee remarked Doran looked like he could have beaten anyone that night...On the same bill George Stirling KO'd old rival Les O'Donnell in the 4th after both had visited the canvas...Ern Waddy was such a huge favourite over Archie Greaves that local pools refused to take wagers on the outcome...Not surprisingly, Waddy's manager will vigorously pursue a rematch...