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Excerpts from The Ballarat Independent August 1906...Ern Waddy has improved considerably since his first encounter with Jack Howard some years ago, and his footwork and feints completely nonplussed his opponent...Both men entered the ring at Sydney Stadium in splendid condition prepared for a hard go over the twelve round distance...Waddy weighed in at 13st 7lb without an ounce of superfluous beef, while the champion was a solid 13st 11lb...In the first round no real harm was done on either side, both men sparring, and each getting the measure of the other...Matters took a turn in the second round, when Waddy feinted then landed a terrific right on his opponent's ear, causing him to reel on unsteady legs...Howard seemed to recover and fended off the younger man's assault...The men continued to mix matters in the third and fourth rounds, but it was clear Waddy was landing the more effective blows...The fifth round saw the sudden end as the Adelaide lad forced matters, and after shooting a stiff left to the body, swung his right, which landing on the jaw sent Howard to the canvas...He managed to come up at the end of 8 sec, but a short uppercut jolt to the head put Howard out on his back where referee Arthur Scott delivered the full count, then raised the hand of the new Australasian heavyweight champion...In the only preliminary, Sid Neilsen (Sydney) won on a technical knockout over Bill Walsh (Melbourne) seconds into the tenth round...Neilsen, dubbed "The Great Dane", now has an enviable record of 16 wins, just one loss and two draws, and is now ranked third amongst challengers for Waddy's title, behind only Jack Howard and Empire champion Colin Bell by the ANZBF...At Melbourne Stadium visiting American heavyweights Al Palzer and Joe Bonds lost to Bill Turner and Archie Greaves respectively...At Sydney's Golden Gate Club Pat Doran (13st 9lb) was awarded the win over American Jack Lester (13st 12lb) when the fight was stopped because an accidental clash of heads in round 4 opened an ugly gash on Doran's forehead that bled profusely and forced the stoppage by referee Joe Cullen in round six...An examination of his scorecard caused Cullen to award the fight to Doran on points accumulated prior to the stoppage...At Kalgoorlie Miners Institute, George Cook outpointed veteran Jim Griffin over six rounds and Jim Tracey took the decision over favourite Harold Hardwick over the same distance...Cook looked sharp as a razor but Hardwick appeared overconfident and under-trained...Albert Kid Lloyd won against Jack Darcy last evening but did not look impressive doing it and was panned by the press of his home state for a visibly lackadaisical effort...Lloyd needs to up his game and fight tougher opposition...Dave Hawkes the Queensland newcomer won accolades from ringsiders for his points sweep of the more experienced Bert Russell on Monday last...Hawkes looked the ring wise professional as he easily took all six rounds with fast and accurate punching...

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Ticket for the sold out 12 round elimination contest between Joe Jeannette the ABA heavyweight champion and Luther McCarty the NABF heavyweight champion for a shot at world champ Sam Langford...In accordance with the wishes of the IBU, neither title will be at stake...New York referee Patsy Haley will be the third man in the ring...Each participant has been guaranteed $10,000 with the winner to receive 25% of the gate...Estimated attendance is 16,000...The semi windup will pit Jim Coffey "The Roscommon Giant" against Bill "KO" Brennan scheduled for ten rounds...Three six round matches fill out the card...Jeannette is 33 years of age with a record of 34-8-5 (21) and McCarty is 22 with a record of 23-0-2 (11)...McCarty is a slight favourite due to his age advantage...Luther is expected to enter the ring weighing 208lbs while Joe should be roughly 198...

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From the sports section of The Los Angeles Herald August 1906...Plenty of controversy this week in boxing circles as two decisions in important contests are hotly debated...Referee Patsy Haley called the Luther McCarty-Joe Jeannette elimination fight a draw and was roundly booed by much of the paying customers at Newark City Stadium...A quick straw poll of reporters covering the bout had a clear majority calling it for McCarty, most had it six rounds for McCarty, four for Jeannette and two even...Joe was down for an eight count in round two and was in serious trouble in round 9...Rumours ran that the promoter had paid Haley to call it a draw so he could stage a lucrative rematch...The other bad call came in the Carl Morris-Jeff Clarke fight on Monday when referee Walter Kelly gave the verdict to Morris, despite the fact Clarke easily out landed him 2 to 1 and had him reeling like a drunkard in round 10...Kelly ruled a knockdown when Clarke clearly slipped in round 2...Kelly left the arena immediately after the verdict was announced amid a torrent of insults from those who had wagered on Clarke...In the main preliminary to the McCarty-Jeannette match, Jim Coffey (202) steam rolled Bill Brennan (204½) who must have left his fight in the gym, as he showed nothing...He suffered a cut in round 6 and another in round 8, and lost round five for an obvious low blow...At Clermont Avenue Rink in Brooklyn Fred Fulton was unimpressive taking a 4-3 decision over Boston's Bartley Madden with three rounds scored even...Fred seemed to lose heart when he couldn't put Madden away in the first four rounds...Fulton weighed 210¼, Madden 189...At Cleveland's Arena big Jess Willard put Alf Langford on the canvas three times in round two to secure the win, and over in New Orleans, young Harry Wills knocked out journeyman Tom Riley inside two rounds...A promoter there wants to match Wills and Willard, but may have to wait in line as promoter Sunny Jim Coffroth wants Willard to meet Tom Cowler here in Los Angeles...In an unusual turn of events the IBU has debuted Harry Wills at No.11 in their world rankings, seemingly on the basis of his 15-0 record since December of 1901...At Tattersall's in Chicago Billy Miske fulfilled a contract in stopping Oakland's Dave Mills in six rounds and expects to head north to meet Canada's Charlie Robinson at Winnipeg...

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From The Halifax Herald August 1906...At the Old Forum Sailor Burke got the wrong end of an eight round decision last evening, losing to the Frenchman Wilfrid Gagne six rounds to two...many at ringside scored those two rounds even...Over in Coaltown Dan MacDonald made a quick meal of Montreal's Phil Miller forcing a stoppage less than two minutes into round one...A good sized mob at Collier's Field in Sydney saw Bert Kenny win a technical knockout over Roddie MacDonald thanks to cuts over both of Roddie's lamps and one inside his gob...It was seven rounds of the most vicious fighting ever seen in these parts...A proposed match between Winnipeg's Charlie Robinson and Billy Miske of the US has been called off after Robinson was knocked out by Frank O'Malley the other day...Al Lambert, the Moncton fighter who fought in the semi windup of that card has issued a challenge to O'Malley to meet him in Halifax with a purse of $500 winner take all and a side wager of $1,000 put up by his backers...Lambert's brother has already posted Al's $100 forfeit with the Herald's sports editor...Halifax promoter Willie MacLellan is scouring the hills and dales for new headliners saying,"The public is tired of seeing the same old faces in the ring. They won't shell out for minor talents imported from the States either. Looking over the new boys coming out of the Dominion Boxing Foundation's academy I don't see much there frankly. There's one amateur prospect though who could be something special if he decides to turn pro. His name is Johnny Gillis and he's a big lad. He hails from the same coal mining district that produced Roddie MacDonald, Jack Munroe and Mickey MacIntyre. He's a rough diamond but no less an authority than George Byers says he could be a future champion." Gillis, the youngest of four brothers and five sisters, is 17, stands just under six feet four and weighs in at about 198, though his current trainer expects him to put on more muscle in the next few years...

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Excerpt from Mitt Slingers Magazine September 1906...The IBU has mandated a rematch between Luther McCarty and Joe Jeannette and opened it up for bids...The likeliest outfit will be the 20th Century Club and Madison Square Garden...Sam Langford will be touring the East coast and may stop in Boston to defend his title against someone from the IBU's top ten rankings...Tom Cowler's name came up but he is reportedly contracted to meet Jess Willard at the Naud Junction Pavilion...Jim Coffey the big Irish lad is a possibility as he was supposed to box Carl Morris in Newark but had that fight cancelled due to an undisclosed injury sustained by the Oklahoman in training...Bill Brennan has apparently agreed to meet Harry Wills the New Orleans pugilist sometime this year...Georges Carpentier is petitioning the EBU to force Charles Weinert to give him a rematch and considering the fact there are no other serious contenders, he's liable to get it...Colin Bell, current Empire champion, is looking to invade Canada and the USA this Fall and has had several serious offers including one to fight Arthur Pelkey at Montreal...Bell is also said to be mulling over an invitation to return to Australia to take on Ern Waddy the new Australasian champion...Following his disastrous effort against Carpentier, Gunboat Smith is taking a bit of a holiday and weighing offers to fight Frank Moran in Paris or some poor English sod at the National Sporting Club...Mike Collins manager of Fred Fulton the Rochester Plasterer, has returned his boy to the friendly confines of his gym in Minnesota to "work on a few things" after his sub-par performance against Bartley Madden two weeks ago...Retired this year are Art Beaudoin, Les O'Donnell, Des Quinlan, Morris Harris and Sandy MacNab...

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Notes from ringside at the National Sporting Club October 9, 1906...At 2:10 of round three (Colin) Bell landed what (Gunboat) Smith's manager later called "The luckiest punch I ever saw!" and Smith collapsed like a house of cards. Bell was directed to a neutral corner by referee Corri as previously agreed, and the count tolled over Smith. At "10" the lanky American lurched to his feet and tried to resume hostilities...Round one started slowly but ended with violent exchanges in Smith's corner. Round was even. In round two Bell forced the action and Smith countered. Round for Bell. Then came the fatal third...Prior to the match Smith told reporters "Bell will wish he stayed down under. After I put him away I want another go at Carpentier."...As for Georges Carpentier, he discovered that his loss to Charles Weinert last July was no fluke and he fared even worse the second time, sustaining an ugly gash that forced the referee to stop the action and award the win to the Hungarian in the 9th round...Referee Alois scored five of the first eight rounds for Weinert and many in the press felt he was being generous to Carpentier...At Glasgow Derek Beattie made a fight of it for roughly two minutes of the first round before Colin Morrison took over and handed him a one-sided thrashing before putting him down twice in round three, at which point the referee stopped the fight at the request of Beattie's corner...The German lads Otto Flint and Ernst Rosemann needed a total of three rounds to dispose of Jan De Groot and Fernand Tresfort and now loom as the two biggest threats to the current European champion...Last evening Bombardier Wells appeared a little gun-shy after his loss to Frank Moran and boxed cautiously throughout, never leaving himself open to Robert Bayle's counters, and making it a close thing...Famed music hall entertainer Sir Harry Lauder sat ringside and felt Wells should have pressed his attack when he had Bayle wobbly in the eighth round. "Och! One good straight right hand would have put the Frenchman awa."

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Excerpts from the notebook of TS McAndrews of The Australian Star...As expected the contest between former Australasian champion Jack Howard (13.6) and Sid Neilsen (13.1) was a slam banger, going one way and then the other, both men throwing defence out the window in their eagerness to deliver heavy punishment...The end was a shocker as Neilsen beat Howard to the punch under two minutes into round five crashing a right cross to Howard's jaw, sending him sprawling to the canvas...Howard rolled over and tried to push himself erect but it was too late to beat the count of referee Arthur Scott...At Gaiety Athletic Hall former Australasian and Empire champion Bill Lang was flattened inside three rounds by the gangly novice heavyweight Jim Tracey and quickly declared he would hang up his gloves and retire to his hotel in Footscray..Young Tracey seemed as amazed as everyone at his win over the once dangerous champion...On the undercard of the Neilsen-Howard show Dave Hawkes of Queensland impressed many with his manhandling of Harry Marquet, disposing of the New Zealander in lightning fashion...Fighting before his hometown crowd Pat Doran (13.11) looked terrible, winning only one round, the 4th, before being dropped hard in the seventh and again in the eighth by ring worn Kelly Mansfield (13.7)...Floundering with no defence, he took a beating in the 9th before going down and out to Mansfield, a man he should've beaten easily...The draw given was a very unpopular decision by referee Basto at Hobart City Hall last night. Most felt Bill Turner (14.7) had landed many more effective blows than Alec Pooley (12.13), and the New Zealand lad looked much the worse for wear at the end. Pooley's camp was happy with the result...Albert Kid Lloyd shocked the hometown crowd getting floored for nine in round four but came back strong and easily took the last three rounds, flooring Wally Evans for six with seconds remaining in the last stanza...

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Great stuff, as always!

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Clipped from The Chicago Daily News October 1906...With Luther McCarty preoccupied with legal distractions and unavailable to fulfil his contract to meet Joe Jeannette in their rematch, Joe elects to defend his American Boxing Association title against young Harry Wills of New Orleans...The anxious and enthusiastic youngster is quickly stonewalled by the champion and forced into retreat, taking severe punishment from the third round on...Despite advantages in height, weight and reach, Wills is a wide-open target for Jeannette's two-handed assault and only his youth and strength allow him to last to the middle of the tenth round when he takes a hard right uppercut and drops like he'd been shot...After referee Walter Ross administers the full count, Joe helps Wills to his corner with words of encouragement for a brave effort...The same night the Buffalo Olympic Club hosts Bill Brennan and Boer Rodel and Brennan takes a decisive verdict over the tough South Afrikan, putting him on the canvas four times during the eight rounds, including a nine count in the last round...At Pittsburgh Fred Fulton (205) steamrolls six foot six Dan Daly (210) sending him to the floor hard three times at which point his corner tosses in the sponge...Carl Morris travels to Toronto expecting an easy win over Canadian champion Arthur Pelkey but is brutally upset, losing the decision 7 rounds to one with two even and costing his backers a considerable sum...At Naud Junction Pavilion England's Tom Cowler only manages a draw in a ten round contest with big Jess Willard and comes away with a broken left hand...In St Louis Billy Miske takes the decision over New York's John Lester Johnson after 10 lightning rounds trading leather...The winner is slated to meet Jeff Clarke following his win over Battling Levinsky at Boston...Latin American champion Valerio Ruelas easily dispatches journeyman Jeff Madden showing improvement in his ringwork since adding veteran Jim Barry to his training staff...Ruelas tells visiting journalists he plans on taking advantage of an offer to fight in Miami Florida later in the year...Sam Langford expects to defend his world championship in Boston before Christmas and Queens resident Jim Coffey will likely be his opponent...

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From The Montreal Daily Star October 1906...Pictured are some of the headline names Montreal promoter Armand Bibaud of the Athens A.C. is planning on bringing to the Mount Royal Arena this year and next...Following Arthur Pelkey's win over Carl Morris the CPBF have ordered him to defend his title against the number one contender "The Pride of Corktown" Frank O'Malley...After a brief bidding war with Toronto promoters it was agreed Pelkey would meet O'Malley at Montreal in early December...Monsieur Bibaud has organized a syndicate to provide a purse of $1,500 to be split 60-40 and a percentage of the gate split the same way as well as $100 for each man for training expenses...Noted referee Yvon Beauchamps will act as third man...Sam Langford is looking outside Boston for a suitable training camp location as he begins preparing to defend his title against New York's Jim Coffey in mid December...A few weeks of home cooking found Sam ballooned up to 200 pounds so he will first have to pare down to fighting weight...Wilfrid Gagne improved his marquee value with a clear points win over New Brunswick's Al Lambert at Le Colisée in St Henri and expects to be in the semi windup at Mount Royal Arena in December...Halifax promoter Willie MacLellan is looking for some new faces now that Sailor Burke seems on the verge of retiring and one of them may be Wild Bert Kenny of Peakes Station, Prince Edward Island...Kenny is currently fighting in the Hamilton area but plans on shifting his camp to Halifax before the new year...Former Canadian heavyweight champion Sandy Ferguson was recently arrested for assaulting a police constable during a brawl in a Lunenburg drinking establishment and will be a guest of the local magistrate for the next sixty days...George Stanley retains his Pacific Northwest title after a draw with Lester "Blackie" McDonald at Steveston Arena, Vancouver...The CPBF top ten are: O'Malley, Charlie Gage, George Stanley, Wilfrid Gagne, Sailor Burke, Bill Mackinnon, Blackie McDonald, Bill Doleman, Al Lambert, and Laurie Mackenzie.

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Latest EBU rankings released December 1st and published in British Boxing News reflect ring action from October and November...Empire champion Colin Bell accepted an offer to fight in America and sailed a week ago on the Sonoma...EBU champion Charles Weinert is expected to move operations from his home country to either Paris or London this month with promises of lucrative contracts...A tournament to crown the amateur champion of Europe and featuring top boxers from Britain, Erie and the continent, resulted in a final match between Marcel Nilles of France and Jack Curphey of England in which Curphey emerged the winner on points over three rounds...Five judges were split three for Curphey and two for Nilles...Bombardier Billy Wells seemed a sure winner after the first round of his fight with Jan De Groot at Holborn Stadium last evening as the big Hollander failed to land a glove on Wells during the three minutes and took repeated blows to the face...Seconds into round two however De Groot landed an overhand right that sprawled Wells on his back...The tall Englishman staggered to his feet too soon and walked into another huge haymaker that put him down and out...At Salle Wagram in Paris Georges Carpentier (79kg) won a conclusive decision after ten rounds over Deutschland's Ernst Rosemann (88kg) though he was unable to really hurt his opponent...In the semi windup Frank Moran stopped Alphonse Dumoulin in nine rounds when his corner threw in the towel...At Hamburg's Sportsplatz Otto Flint and Gunboat Smith boxed to a ten round draw according to referee Herman Alois, though Smith's camp vehemently disagreed, sparking an angry reaction from the crowd...At Pilrig Street Arena, Leith, Colin Morrison took the nod over France's Emile Masson in the eight round main event, while at Glasgow Hall Derek Beattie managed to last the distance with Louis Robur of France but took a beating...At Rome Giuseppe Sciacca knocked out Robert Bayle in seven rounds...The EBU will remove Tom Cowler from their rankings in the new year...

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Scribblings from The Melbourne Age December 10-11, 1906...The much anticipated first defence of Ern Waddy's Australasian title was rescheduled after the Lachlan Cup at Randwick and the International rugby test match between our national team and the visiting squad from South Afrika...Waddy and Sid Neilsen were to box 12 rounds for a purse of 200 gold sovereigns at the National Sporting Club...Arthur Scott, respected referee of the NSC was unanimous choice for the third man and the fighters declared their weights as follows: Waddy 13st 9lb; Neilsen 13st 6lb...The contest provided was one of a whirlwind character...In the first round Waddy sailed in with the full determination to putting his visibly nervous adversary straight out of action...He hammered away with both hands and drove Neilsen hurriedly about the ring inflicting considerable damage...Neilsen recovered somewhat in rounds two and three but Waddy had him on shaky pins in round four...In the 5th Waddy was pummeling Neilsen on the ropes when the latter's corner spun in the towel...The house took the finish badly...In the semi windup Pat Doran (13st 10lb) and ex-champion Jack Howard (14st 2lb) set a blistering pace for six rounds of their 10 round go...The better conditioned Melbourne lad put on the best showing of his career, gradually wearing down Howard with short chopping hooks and terrific right uppercuts, easily taking the last three stanzas and Referee Scott's verdict...At Nathan's Athletic Hall Archie Greaves delivered a crusher to the hulking American Al Palzer...It was obvious Palzer had been sitting on his hands for the past three months prior to taking the fight on short notice as he was gasping after chasing Greaves for three rounds...One noted upset saw heavy favourite Alec Pooley lose in front of his hometown crowd at Auckland Arena, KO'd in the sixth by 'old' Kelly Mansfield...Pooley is now 15-4-3 (4) and Mansfield 21-16-5 (15)...Albert Kid Lloyd stepped up his opposition stopping 11th ranked Albert Cripps at Lithgow Hall last evening...Novice Dave Hawkes, shrewdly managed by his mother "Queenie", faced the American "light heavyweight" Joe Bonds and put him away in the 4th canto after setting him up with a clever feint...Jim Tracey "The Beanstalk" won another one taking the nod over Ballarat's Jimmy Dunn at Maitland Stadium in front of a sparse crowd...The annual state amateur championship tournaments are being held across Australia and New Zealand with the finals to be held on Boxing Day...

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From The Detroit Tribune December 1906...The Sam Langford-Jim Coffey fight was a flop...Thanks to dismal weather, poor pre-fight ticket sales, a very negative press opinion of Langford's opponent, and a pathetic promotional effort by Tony Fabrini and the Atlas Athletic Club, only slightly over 2,000 paid customers turned up, with few of the ringside boxes occupied...The fight itself ended two minutes and six seconds into round one after Coffey had hit the deck three times without landing a single punch in return...At Madison Square Garden Luther McCarty (208) outpointed a battle weary Joe Jeannette (202) over 12 rounds in what the Evening World dubbed "a travesty of the sweet science foisted on a gullible public"...McCarty relied almost entirely on his left jab, wary of falling into a trap laid by his cunning foe and only unleashing his right on a visibly tiring Jeannette in the 11th round, putting him on the canvas for a count of nine...At Minneapolis Fred Fulton (210) and Billy Miske (187½) boxed ten rounds with honours evenly divided, though many reporters felt Fulton would have stopped Miske had they fought another round...Young Harry Wills the New Orleans pugilist impressed fight fans with his complete domination of Bill Brennan at New York's St. Nicholas Arena, but some were puzzled by his failure to follow up when he had Brennan hurt...Wills record stands at 16-1-0 (8) while Brennan drops to 24-6-0 (14)...Even Bill's supporters were hard pressed to score more than one round in his favour...In the semi windup John Lester Johnson (182) improved his record to 17-3-3 (11) forcing a stoppage of Sailor White (202½) by referee Jake Didier in the 4th round...Johnson immediately challenged Wills to meet him at any distance...Jeff Clarke should be considering retirement after losing a decision to Boston Irishman Bartley Madden last evening at the Armoury...He looked flummoxed by Madden's ring maneuvering...At Doyle's Arena in Vernon California, big Jess Willard won 5 rounds to 2 with one even over Dave Mills...There were no knockdowns...Willard's manager said he hopes to secure fights with either Gunboat Smith or Frank Moran when they return to the States...

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Observations from the notebook of Frank Allnutt senior sports reporter for The Toronto Daily Star December 1906...Chatham Ontario's Arthur Pelkey has earned the right to bigger and better paydays after his bloody technical knockout last night of leading contender Frank O'Malley at the sold out Mt Royal Arena in Montreal...The fight was a corker as both men looked for a knockout, the action swinging from one man to the other, leaving the fans shouting in the aisles...Early on it seemed to most that O'Malley might have it over his opponent, but the Canadian champion surged back with murderous intent and delivered tremendous blows to the Irish lad's face, opening a cut over his left optic...In the eighth, countering an assault from O'Malley, Pelkey crashed a roundhouse right that reopened the cut and soon both men were splashed with gore...At the end of the ninth O'Malley stumbled to his corner, and seconds into the tenth round, with both men and the referee dripping with claret a constable sitting ringside ordered the referee, one Yvan Beauchamps to halt the fight, at which point he grabbed Pelkey's arm and shoved it skyward as the winner...Pelkey weighed 207¼ and O'Malley 196...In the prior semi windup rematch local hero Wilfrid Gagne (192½) delivered a kayo to former amateur champion Bill Doleman (196¾) of Toronto at 2:11 of round five...Promoter Armand Bibaud is pushing Gagne forward as Pelkey's next opponent...Across town at the 3200 seat St Denis Street Gym, American Kid Norfolk needed just two rounds to settle the hash of New Brunswick's ex-lumberjack Al Lambert...In the main preliminary bout Gaspe's Soldier Jones took all of 86 seconds to put away Eddie Berthier of Sorel, Quebec...Jones who stands just shy of six feet should put on more muscle as he is just 19 years old...Promoter Fred Dearborn matched veteran Laurie Mackenzie (190½) and the exciting newcomer Charlie Gage (189¾) for 10 rounds at Hamilton's Arena...Gage, a powerful rushing two fisted puncher, forced Mac to backup and take heavy blows to the body and head...In the second and third rounds both traded punches in lightning quick exchanges at ring centre with Gage taking a slight edge...Halfway through the 4th Gage landed a left to the body and right to the jaw that sent Mac to the canvas where he failed to beat the count...

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Excerpt from Mitt Slingers Magazine January 1907...The proposed world title contest between Sam Langford and NABF champion Luther McCarty is on hold due to McCarty's demands of a $25,000 guarantee and an equal share of the gate as well as a share of profits from any film of the fight...McCarty and his manager Billy McCarney also demanded the fight be held in Los Angeles or San Francisco and even wanted final say in the choice of referee...Langford has been willing to negotiate but told the press boys in Boston that "...McCarty sounds like he doesn't really want this fight..." Over in England, Gunboat Smith and Frank Moran have failed to agree on terms so it looks like Smith will be fighting Scotland's Derek Beattie instead...Smith said he expects to make enough from that contest to pay for first class passage on a steamer back to the States for himself and his wife...Plenty of terrific matches to look forward to in the new year, among them Fred Fulton against American title holder Joe Jeannette at Madison Square Garden; Tom Cowler Vs Colin Bell at Montreal; the rematch between European champion "Charlie" Weinert and Georges Carpentier in Paris; and a likely contest somewhere in New York between Jim Coffey and big Jess Willard...Harry Wills "The Black Panther" is expected to box Bartley Madden in late January or early February in Boston; British sporting press suggest Frank Moran may fight Germany's Otto Flint at London's National Sporting Club; There is also talk that Tom Flanagan is planning a major card for Toronto featuring Bill "KO" Brennan and Jeff Clarke with Billy Miske "The St Paul Thunderbolt" and the new kid Jack Dempsey in the semi windup...British fight promoter Ray Charrington is staging a fight in Glasgow between local hero Colin Morrison and the German terror Ernst Rosemann with the winner promised a crack at the EBU title...Down in Australia the final contest for the Australasian amateur heavyweight championship was held with Jack Deshong of Queensland outpointing Harry Pahau of New Zealand at Sydney before a large crowd.

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Annual Prospects Report issued by the IBU and carried by most of the sporting press worldwide...Also best of the crop of amateurs expected to join the professional ranks in 1907...Jack Deshong and Dimitris Nikolaou (Australia); Harry Pahau (New Zealand); From Canada Jacques Bouchard (QC), Joe Burke (NS) [younger brother of James 'Sailor Burke], Sam Dixon (NS), Clyde Parker (NS), and Sgt Harry Rolph of the Toronto Scottish Regiment (ON)...From South Afrika George Mtimkulu...From Europe Jonny Espen (Nor.); Paul Samson (Deu.); Marcel Nilles (Fra.); Raul Gomez (Esp.); Paul Hamms (Fra.); Henry Hull (Eng.); Paul Journee (Fra.); Einar Iversen (Den.)...Officially Retired: Bill Lang, Colin Cameron, Peter Kling, Charlie Robinson, Art Beaudoin, Tiger Smith, Sandy MacNab, George Fryer and Japie Smit...None of whom ever got anywhere near the world heavyweight title.

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Part 2 of the IBU's annual prospects report...Also ran a list of top US amateurs likely to turn pro in 1907..Clay Turner, Al Ballard, Martin Burke, Soldier Malone, Tony Melchior and Pat McCarthy...Officially Retired: Denver Billy Woods, Morris Harris, Fred Cooley, Salinas Jack Burns, Joe Dundee, Tom Kennedy and Battling Jim Johnson.

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That Tunney fella may be one to watch. :-)

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This boy Tunney has fragile hands apparently, so his progress may be slower than some.



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From The Glasgow Herald February 1907...Georges Carpentier regains the European heavyweight championship via a close decision over Charles Weinert...Referee Eugene Corrie scores 6 rounds for the Frenchman, five for the Hungarian and one even...Many dispute the call and Weinert's manager calls for an immediate rematch on neutral ground...At the Scottish National A.C. last evening Colin Morrison (13.7) thrashed Ernst Rosemann (13.13) sending him to the canvas five times...The German seemed to have underestimated the local man and not trained properly, though Morrison looked better than he has in a long while...The night before American Gunboat Smith knocked out Derek Beattie in five innings at the same venue...Smith sails tomorrow for New York on the steamship Ventura...French promoter Albert Nivelle tells a writer for Le Jour he believes Carpentier has lost much of his allure for fans with recent efforts but he is pessimistic of finding another marquee name...Louis Robur had seemed a possibility until his loss to the Englishman Wells...Tresfort lacked any real charisma...A few of the new crop had potential, particularly Marcel Nilles and Paul Journee and even the big Dane Einar Iversen...Across the channel British hope lay with the farmer Frank Goddard and Arthur Townley, both still learning their trade...Scotland's Morrison was now ranked fifth by the EBU, behind Weinert, De Groot, Flint and Wells...As for Otto Flint, his fight with Frank Moran ended in No Decision thanks to a crack of skulls in round two that opened a bloody gash just over Moran's left eye...Englishmen were heartened by news of Tom Cowler's win in Montreal, Canada over Empire champion Colin Bell of Australia, until the National Sporting Club reiterated its order that the title must be fought for in London...They then declared the title vacant and ordered Bombardier Wells and Goddard to battle for it.