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From The Kalgoorlie Sun February 1907...The South Australia Sporting Club expected a large spill-over from the crowd attending the annual Carrington Stakes at Martindale Race Course so scheduled the Waddy-Mansfield championship contest for later that evening...Three thousand packed the King's Theatre at Adelaide with hundreds turned away...Part of the attraction was the news Ern Waddy was to turn his attention to British and European rings once he had disposed of Kelly Mansfield...His careless attitude nearly cost him the title when he was put on his backside in the fifth round...Waddy and Mansfield met for twelve rounds on Friday evening and for four rounds Waddy made the pace a cracker and had the mob shouting and cheering excitedly...He belted Mansfield on the jaw with fierce, well-aimed right swings several times finally culminating in a knockout in the eighth canto...Waddy was 13.3, Mansfield 13.7...Six foot four Jim Tracey improved his position in pugilistic rankings with a one-sided verdict over Alf Costello, younger brother of veteran Bill Costello...Tracey's manager is grooming him for a crack at a marquee name at Sydney Stadium this summer...Sid Neilsen and Archie Greaves, the top two challengers for the current Australasian champion, clashed at Sydney Stadium on Wednesday and put on one of the fastest heavyweight fights in years...The five thousand exuberant fans saw many wild exchanges until "The Great Dane" crashed a left hook to Greaves' head in round five opening a terrible cut over his right optic and sending him to the canvas...Two and a half minutes into the next round referee Arthur Scott called a halt and awarded the fight to Neilsen on a technical knockout...In the semi windup Albert Kid Lloyd stopped Bill Walsh in round eight, putting him down three times in two minutes...Lloyd issued a challenge to Neilsen from ringside...Tom O'Rourke's troupe of touring American boxers (Al Palzer, Jack Lester and Joe Bonds) are currently 0 for 9 since arriving on Australia's sunny shores and although O'Rourke has enriched himself, his boys have seen almost nothing for their pains...

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American Boxing Association heavyweight rankings posted in winter 1907 issue of USA BOXING magazine...Tuesday February 12th, US champion Joe Jeannette squared off with hard-punching Fred Fulton at McGuigan's Arena at Harrison, New Jersey...The lanky Minnesota pugilist was expected to lead off behind a pile-driver of a left jab, battering the veteran champ and looking to end the fight early, but Jeannette managed to avoid Fulton's lethal left and shocked him by knocking him down in the very first round...Fulton recovered in the next round, but failed to deliver his heavy guns and took more punishment in rounds three and four...Rounds five and six turn around for the challenger as he manages to land some big blows of his own, staggering Jeannette...The pendulum swings back in round seven with Jeannette slipping and blocking punches and connecting with swings to the head...Round eight sees more of the same and Fulton is more and more on the back foot, just trying to avoid Jeannette's hooks to the jaw as his right eye closes...Round nine starts off well for Fulton as he scores repeatedly with the jab and a right cross that opens a cut on Jeannette's face, but seconds later he catches an uppercut that puts him down, taking a count of eight...They finish the round with sharp exchanges but Fulton is tiring and looking to survive as the bell ends the round...At 1:14 of round ten Jeannette goes all out, landing to the body and then one huge shot to the head and Fulton crashes to the floor out cold...Saturday February 16th, disembarking at New York, Gunboat Smith is greeted by his manager Jimmy Buckley and signs articles to meet Tom Cowler at Naud Junction Pavilion at Los Angeles, promoted by Tom McCarey with a guarantee of $5,000 each plus a percentage of the gate...Jim Coffey declines an offer to meet Harry Wills at New Orleans and instead agrees to fight Jess Willard at the Empire A.C. in Queens, NY...Latin American champion Valerio Ruelas stops Dan "Porky" Flynn in two rounds at Miami's City Stadium then signs to battle Bill Brennan at Madison Square Garden for Jim Kennedy and the 20th Century Club...At Doyle's Arena, Vernon California, Willie Meehan embarrasses Jack Dempsey taking a six round points decision...On the other coast Harry Wills wins five rounds of a ten round bout with Billy Miske with two rounds even at New Orleans there are no knockdowns...

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From the pages of The Toronto Telegram February 1907...In an interview with MJ Doheny, chairman of the Dominion Boxing Foundation, we were informed the organization would step back from some of its responsibilities and restrict itself to recruiting and training new candidates and promoting the sport in Canada...Once boxers are ready to join the professional ranks the DBF will connect them to reputable managers and cornermen, and act with the CPBF to monitor fight shows in the interest of the boxers, as well as offer some financial support to small-time promoters to bolster the growth of the sport...Toronto promoter Tom Flanagan, having signed Arthur Pelkey to a one-fight deal, was busy working the phones and telegraph lines to line up a name opponent for the main event on a card in April...Two likely candidates are Jim Coffey of New York and Bartley Madden of Boston...Charlie Gage, now considered Pelkey's top challenger, rejected a proposal to fight his stablemate Frank O'Malley in the semi windup and accepted an offer from Montreal promoter Armand Bibaud to box Wilfrid Gagne in his main event with a hefty guarantee ...O'Malley heads to the Maritimes with an invitation and a hundred dollars in his pocket to fight Sailor Burke at the King Street Arena in Coaltown...On the undercard will be young Clyde Parker, a product of the black community in East Preston, who has been dominating the amateur scene in Nova Scotia...Parker won the city and provincial middleweight titles in 1904, the provincial light heavyweight title in 1905, and competed in the Maritime Amateur Tournament as a heavyweight the following year losing a close decision to Joe Burke, younger brother of the former Canadian champion...Though regarded as the odds-on favourite to win the national title in 1907, Parker, nicknamed "The East Preston Bulldog", elected to turn professional under the highly respected trainer George Byers...Bert Kenny of Prince Edward Island, has reportedly put off returning Down East to box a rematch with Laurie Mackenzie in Winnipeg...Kenny, unbeaten in his last thirteen fights, is already ranked as a top five contender for the Canadian title...Out west Alberta's Magnus Halderson claims to be the Western Canadian champion with his win over Pacific Northwest champ George Stanley on a foul in their ten round bout...Stanley asked for a return go but Halderson expressed little interest...

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Excerpt from The Barnsley Earwigger April 1907...In a 12-round contest at the National Sporting Club on Tuesday evening the Australian Ern Waddy beat our Bombardier Billy Wells, knocking him out with a left to the jaw early in the seventh round... Wells gave a most disappointing exhibition against an opponent he likely would have knocked out probably in less than a round a year ago. He not only did not box well, but he had no speed and nothing of a punch. He hit Waddy often enough in the earlier rounds, but only in the fourth was there any power at all in his blows. Unafraid of Wells' punches Waddy left himself open time after time to his straight left but none of the blows affected him...A left hook that travelled less than eight inches to the Bombardier's chin was all it took to settle the battle and award the Empire title to the Australian...After the fight the IBU informed the press that the British Empire Boxing Council had withdrawn its order that its title must only be fought for in England...Georges Carpentier thumbed his nose at the EBU's edict that he grant "Charlie" Weinert a rematch and sailed for New York...A cartoon in a major Paris daily pictured a ship labelled "Carpentier" at sea while on the shore his challengers stood shaking their fists at him...The very next evening at the Gaumont Palace Weinert walked into a windmill of huge fists from giant Frenchman Fernand Tresfort and was rendered hors de combat in round three...After the first two frames of clever boxing by the Hungarian, ringside punters had him a favourite to win a decision over the Gallic pugilist, so the end came as quite a shock...Something even more bizarre took place at Eindhoven's boxing theatre when Jan De Groot was awarded a technical knockout over Scotland's Colin Morrison in the fourth round of their contest after Morrison had clearly won the first three rounds and seemed on his way to win the next...De Groot landed a punch that staggered Morrison at the halfway mark and referee Verbeke leapt in and stopped the fight and indicated a technical knockout win for the Dutchman...The crowd was stunned into silence, then began tossing programmes into the ring...At Dundee's Caird Hall Germany's Otto Flint KO'd Derek Beattie in under fifty seconds of round one, then issued a demand that the EBU allow him to fight for the title...

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Clipped from the pages of The Ballarat Independent April 1907...Having won the Empire heavyweight title in London, Ern Waddy is obliged to vacate the Australasian championship and cables his agent in Adelaide to inform the press...Melbourne promoter Dick Rafferty tries to interest Hugh MacIntosh in Albert "Kid" Lloyd for a match with Sid Neilsen for Sydney Stadium for the now vacant Australasian title, but MacIntosh rejects the idea because Lloyd is little known outside his home state...Looking over the latest ANZBF rankings the Sydney promoter sees no compelling matches for the No.1 ranked Neilsen with the possible exception of local attraction Jim Tracey who has won his last five bouts, albeit against less than stellar opposition...The blonde six foot four South Afrikan-born prospect with the 81-inch reach has garnered a sizeable following in Sydney and the surrounding area which should mean healthy sales at the ticket office...As for Lloyd, MacIntosh suggests he meet ex-champ Jack Howard or George Stirling in another smaller Sydney venue to increase his marquee value...Howard has bounced back with impressive wins over Bill Turner and Kelly Mansfield and seems to have regained his old form after months of hard work under a new trainer...The news is bad for Archie Greaves, once seen as a threat to the holder of the heavyweight title...Repeated fractures to his right hand that failed to heal properly resulted in permanent damage during a sparring session and early retirement of a valiant warrior...A benefit dinner raised £50 to see him on his way...At the Metropolitan A.C. Pat Doran and Bill Walsh boxed to a ten round draw in a bout that saw no knockdowns and more wrestling than punches thrown...Doran has improved his boxing but still lacks power in his fists and a real fighting heart...Veteran slugger Soldier Ed Thompkins upset the odds with his kayo inside two rounds of New Zealand's Wally Evans at Barney's Athletic Hall last week...Evans had been angling for a rematch with fellow countryman Alec Pooley who beat Dan McNamee at Auckland's arena two nights ago...After packing off Al Palzer and company back to the States, Tom O'Rourke cabled a contact in Seattle to recruit another troupe of boxers for Australia and New Zealand...George Stanley, Lee Anderson and Tom McCarty, all training in the city, agree to a 3-fight deal...

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From the pages of The Pittsburgh Messenger April 1907...Following protracted negotiations Sam Langford and Luther McCarty have finally agreed to meet in an open-air ring at Montreal's Sohmer Park with New York's Tim Hurst as referee...The fight is set for Monday June 24th with tickets going on sale the month before...Many well known figures in sport and politics are expected to attend the joint promotion of Montreal's Armand Bibaud and Toronto's Tom Flanagan, and predictions for attendance run as high as 70,000...When asked if McCarty is America's hope, New York boxing editorialist Robert Edgren replied, "Sam Langford was born in Canada, and therefore is an American. The proud title "American" isn't reserved for the people who live in a portion of the American continent cut off from the rest by an invisible boundary line. When Langford won the world title an American became champion of all champions of the world."...At Naud Junction Pavilion outside Los Angeles heavily favoured Gunboat Smith (182) traded punches with Tom Cowler (205) and ended up face first on the rosin-stained canvas in a shocking upset...Cowler took a brief count in round one but finished the heat strong and caught Smith in the next with a flurry of hooks and uppercuts that hurt him enough to force the referee to save the Gunner from a knockout...With Joe Jeannette openly pondering retirement at the urging of his wife, many eyes turned to the pantherish Harry Wills, however, "...the US championship aspirations of Wills, ranked 4th among Jeannette's challengers, sustained a setback last night when the big fellow from New Orleans failed to knock out Bartley Madden, rugged Boston Irishman, in a 10-round match at the Armory. Wills won the referee's decision by a decisive margin but Madden, fighting one of the most courageous battles seen in a Beantown ring in years, stood up under Harry's terrific attacks."...Fred Fulton has been matched with France's Georges Carpentier for ten rounds at New York's Polo Grounds in late May or early June...Following his win over Jim Coffey, Jess Willard took a keep busy fight, winning a lopsided decision over rugged Tony Ross in Milwaukee...Bill Brennan deflated the South American threat of Valerio Ruelas with a clear points win at Madison Square Garden...Billy Miske bounced back from a points loss to improve his record to 21-2-1 with a near stoppage of young Kid Norfolk at Chicago...

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First round stoppages reported for these guys (Dempsey and Tunney). I bet they turn out to be pretty good.

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In this alternate reality you just never know....

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From the pages of The Halifax Herald April 1907...Sailor Burke's loss to Toronto's Frank O'Malley dominated the local sports news but a small spotlight was shone on young Clyde Parker the East Preston phenom making his debut on a major card and easily outclassing a lad of similar experience...In Montreal in the main event, Charlie Gage (189¾) took the early rounds, Wilfrid Gagne (183) the middle and after eight it seemed the French-Canadian was in control, but momentum swung to Gage in a fierce rally in the ninth that had Gagne in trouble...Herb Vogel of the Canadian Wire Service wrote, '...At 2:01 of the tenth canto Gage lands a right that puts Gagne on the canvas. Seconds later a short left puts him down in a heap again. Gagne is up at the count of eight but the Toronto boy pours it on and staggers Wilfrid across the ring. Gagne can't fend for himself. Referee Rooney waves his arms stopping the fight and Charlie Gage is the winner on a TKO with less than twenty seconds left to go..."...Toronto's Mutual Street Arena was the scene of the 10 round scrap between Canada's Arthur Pelkey and the Dublin giant Jim Coffey. Coffey surprised Pelkey with a flash knockdown in the first minute but the husky local champion was quickly on his feet and rushing in...Pelkey, who weighed 203½ to Coffey's 199¼, favoured the rough inside game while the Irishman preferred to box at range using a stiff left jab and straight rights...In the fifth round the Dubliner opened a cut over the Canadian's left eye...Pelkey's short arm blows at close quarters began to show their effect in the sixth and seventh rounds when Coffey weakened and was unable to force his opponent away...Coffey recuperated in the eighth and landed squarely with combinations of blows to the head...The ninth inning was fairly even, but Coffey's corner had him ahead and told him to box at long range in the tenth, and that likely cost him the decision, as the referee called it a draw....At Winnipeg "Wild Bert" Kenny took a 5-2-1 decision from referee Eddie Palmer over Laurie Mackenzie in a crowd pleasing fight with both men exchanging knockdowns...

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Clipped from the pages of the May issue of Mitt Slingers Magazine...Articles cover the upcoming championship fight between Sam Langford (39-1-2) and Luther McCarty (24-0-3) at Sohmer Park in Montreal now set for this July 1st, Dominion Day in Canada...Boxing cognoscenti provide predictions on the Fred Fulton-Georges Carpentier fight scheduled for Madison Square Garden to purposely distract from the big promotion north of their border...Columnist Milt Dunnell takes a hard look at some of the best of the new crop of heavyweights like Magnus Halderson, Jack Dempsey, Lee Anderson, and Honeyboy Wilson...England's Gilbert Odd examines the fight scene in the UK and Europe and the impact of men like Australia's Ern Waddy and American Frank Moran...

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Article clipped from The Los Angeles Herald...It is reported over five hundred thousand dollars exchanged hands in what is described as the biggest upset in professional sports exceeding even last year's World Series win by the Chicago White Sox...The promoters secured a major fight for the only other bout on the card matching England's Tom Cowler and the US champion Joe Jeannette in a 10 round contest...The fight ended in the second round when a shop-worn Jeannette was knocked to the ground repeatedly, forcing his corner to throw in the towel...Joe, who turned 34 recently, admitted he took the fight for the money and was hanging up the gloves for good...Cowler told reporters after the fight that he greatly admired Jeannette and was sorry to be the one to send him into retirement...Cowler then issued a challenge to Luther McCarty after learning that the new champion had no intention of ever giving Sam Langford a rematch...McCarty declared he had won the title and was taking it back to "the good old USA" where it belonged...[Ed. Watching the fight unfold it looked like Langford was way ahead (6-2-1) then McCarty landed a big shot to the head at the end of round ten that had Sam on wobbly pins and carried over into the 11th with McCarty hammering Langford with flurries of punches before referee Tim Hurst stopped it.]

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European heavyweight rankings released by the EBU and published by The British Boxing News....Empire champion Ern Waddy defends his title at the National Sporting Club with a first round technical knockout of a visibly nervous Colin Morrison...The young Scot takes a right to the temple over a tentative left jab and goes down...Rising too quickly he absorbs a number of blows to the head before referee Eugene Corri calls a halt...In America European champion Georges Carpentier suffered a beating from the giant Minnesotan Fred Fulton before a left to the body and right to the head laid him out cold...Outweighed by almost three stone, Carpentier only landed one serious blow, a right cross to Fulton's jaw in the third round...At Hamburg's Sportplatz Otto Flint won his rubber match with the ox-like Fernand Tresfort knocking him out in the fourth round after losing the first three rounds on the German referee's scorecard...Added to previous one round kayos of Jan DeGroot and Derek Beattie the win earns Flint the top spot in the EBU rankings...Charlie Weinert (13.6), now fighting out of England, entered his fight with Ernst Rosemann (14.3) a huge underdog having lost twice before to the German...Going into the tenth round Weinert's chief second warned him he needed a knockout to win so he pressed his tiring opponent, knocked him down twice and forced a stoppage by referee Joe Palmer at 2:45 of the last round...Rosemann seemed to run out of petrol midway through round nine and blamed it on the cloud of cigar smoke at ringside...At Amsterdam's Velodrome Jan De Groot answers critics of his prior DQ win over Alphonse Dumoulin of France with a convincing points win and two knockdowns in their eight round go...Even Dumoulin's most ardent supporters only give him two rounds...England's Bombardier Billy Wells puts up a feeble effort in losing to Emile Masson, KO'd in five...In a double bill in Dublin Frank Moran of America dusts off PO Curran in less than two minutes and Frank Goddard ekes out a decision over Private Dan Voyles...

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The win last evening of Melbourne's Pat Doran over first division star Sid Neilsen has thrown the heavyweight class into turmoil and likely put the kibosh on any plans Hugh McIntosh had to match Neilsen and Albert Kid Lloyd for the vacant championship...Lloyd's easy victory over George Stirling at Melbourne Stadium lands him in the enviable position to pressure McIntosh and Sydney Stadium to show him in their next big card...Neilsen (13.1) had much the best of the first four rounds at Ballarat Athletic Hall, but he tired from the slugging...Doran (13.12), the big Melbournian, then took the lead, and ultimately knocked him out in the seventh round of a fast and hard contest...The man behind the punch came out on top in the Walsh-Howard stoush at the Golden Gate Club, Sydney a few evenings ago...Bill Walsh, the Melbournian, weighed 13st. 10lb.; Jack Howard, Sydneysider, 14st. 2lb. Howard, a former champion is the more experienced man, while Walsh is hard and dogged, and can shoot a punch that looks as if it would sink a ship...Howard worked his man patiently, landing heavy blows to the belly and kidneys, till a shock in round 4 nearly lifted him out of his boots...Howard was never the same man after that...Another shocker in round 8 sent him sprawling on the canvas and he just beat the count...A booming left hook in the tenth put him on his back and this time he failed to answer the call...At the Brisbane Sporting Club Dave Hawkes, the rugged Queenslander, gave Bill Costello, a veteran Newcastle lad of considerable repute, the two ends and the middle of a hiding on Saturday night. Hawkes, who weighed 14.3 to his opponent's 13.9, was very aggressive from the start, and after flooring Bill on several occasions, put him to sleep by aid of a right on the chin in the 4th round...In a rematch of their draw last October, Alec Pooley, fighting in front of his home folks, eluded the wild swings of big Bill Turner and drove home lefts and rights to the head and neck for ten rounds, closing Turner's eyes and taking a neat decision from referee Paddy Basto...Pooley had been promised a match with either Jim Tracey or George Cook should he prevail over "The Taz Tiger"...Dave Sonter the Victorian in and outer may have sent Kelly Mansfield into retirement yesterday when he took almost every one of their ten rounds at Lithgow Hall...Dave's record stands at 19-7-2 while Mansfield falls to 21-19-4...

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From The Chicago Daily News July late edition 1907...Frank Moran sails from England on the Noranda for New York City with little to show for his efforts overseas...A booking agent for one of the smaller venues offers him a thousand bucks to fight hulking Al Palzer in two weeks time and Moran jumps at it...In a spectacular slugging match Chicago's Bill Brennan (198½) knocks out Harlem's terror John Lester Johnson (181¾) after both hit the canvas in the first round...Luther McCarty, now holder of the greatest title in sports, sits ringside and sends word to Brennan's manager offering to defend his championship against the ex-steelworker in two months time...Up there in Montreal, Harry Wills the New Orleans phantom uncharacteristically tore into the brutish looking Australian Colin Bell and made his corner cry "uncle" inside two rounds...Bell claimed a twisted ankle in round one made him unfit for further combat...Sadly for Harry there was no offer to fight the world champion at the end...The young western pugilist Jack Dempsey is saddled with a manager named John "The Barber" Reisler who seems incapable of matching his protege with anyone who can push Dempsey into the limelight...Most recently Dempsey pummeled into submission one Angel Rodriguez of Uruguay, a smallish nation in the South American continent...Dempsey seems to be the real goods as they say, but fighting in a marshy backwater like Florida against an unknown pug just won't cut it with the big boys in New York and Chi-town...At Detroit South Afrika's Boer Rodel had it all over Alf Langford of Boston who often bills himself as Sam's cousin...Rodel stopped Alf with a minute left in the eighth round of their scuffle, adding his name to the list of men who have beaten the Boston prize fighter in the last year...Alf should either change his last name or consider a new line of work...Gunboat Smith has popped up again, back home in Frisco where he cut up Jim Barry so bad after five rounds even Barry had to ask his corner to throw in the towel...

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From The Montreal Daily Star July 1907...In a thrilling rematch of their fight last December, stopped in the tenth round by a cut, Arthur Pelkey and Frank O'Malley crashed together last evening at Toronto's Diamond Park...In a scheduled 12 round defence of his Canadian championship Pelkey expected to go home early again, and he did, but not the way he hoped...The two battled for most of the night at ring center with neither man willing to give an inch, trading damaging short arm punches inside...In the fifth round they smashed heads and O'Malley was cut around the left eye but quick work by his corner closed it up in time to answer the bell...Pelkey took the sixth round with savage blows to the gut that drew grunts from the Corktown lad, but most at ringside saw that the champion had shot his bolt...Pelkey came out of his corner stiff-legged and walked into a buzzsaw from a rejuvenated O'Malley who landed six terrific blows to the body, neck and head, the last a right on the point of the jaw that brought Pelkey to his knees, then sprawled on his face...From ring announcer Billy Cook, "The time, two minutes and twenty seconds of the seventh round, the winner by knockout and new Canadian heavyweight champion, Frank O'Malley!"...At which point Babe O'Halloran tore up his betting slips and tossed them in the air...In the semi windup O'Malley's stablemate Charlie Gage (190¼) took on tough Bert Kenny (186½) in a wild free-for-all that saw Gage cut in round seven, made worse by Kenny butting him in round eight, followed by a beauty of an uppercut that drops Kenny for six...The East Coaster is taking the tenth by a wide margin when he gets dumped by another short uppercut and barely makes it to the bell...Referee Joe Popp scores rounds 1, 6 and 10 for Kenny, 5 and 7 even and the rest for Gage making Charlie the winner...Out west, Magnus Halderson defends his claim to a Western Canadian title against fellow Albertan "Cowboy Bill" Taylor and loses by decision 6-3-1...On an otherwise solid card in Montreal, Wilfrid Gagne got the hometown nod over George DeBray, ending the Hamilton boy's winning streak at seven..."It was a good run while it lasted," said DeBray afterwards, "I've reached the end of the line and will probably call it quits while I still have my wits about me."...Two six rounders showcased prospects Clyde Parker and Joe Burke of Nova Scotia...

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Latest rankings from the International Boxing Union include bouts from July, 1907...Big changes from even six months ago...Luther McCarty is the new heavyweight champ and Sam Langford has been relegated to the fourth spot amongst his contenders with England's Tom Cowler grabbing top honours following his win over Joe Jeannette...Fred Fulton the Minnesota Giant and Harry Wills of New Orleans find themselves filling the two rungs above Langford...Ern Waddy, champion of the Empire, leaps ahead of such worthies as Georges Carpentier, a revitalized Gunboat Smith, and Jess Willard, unbeaten since a loss to Fulton in June of last year...Germany's Otto Flint is one good win away from cracking the top ten and the rest of the second division is populated by a mixture of veterans and new faces...The chairman of the IBU contacts the heads of the American Boxing Association, the North American Boxing Federation and the Australia and New Zealand Boxing Federation to pressure them into filling their vacant titles as soon as possible, preferably before the new year...Boxing bodies in Scotland, England and Wales petition the IBU to recognize a champion of the United Kingdoms but Brussels points out they are already included in the European Boxing Union with little to show for it...Sydney promoter Hugh McIntosh cables Colin Bell with an offer to meet Albert Kid Lloyd for the vacant Australasian title at the Stadium, but hedges his bet with a plan to have Lloyd meet Alec Pooley the New Zealand champion should Bell turn him down...In America promoters on both coasts float lucrative offers for top contenders to meet at their venues but the name of Langford is conspicuously avoided...In his training camp at Thatcher Woods north of Chicago, Bill Brennan and his manager Leo Flynn have begun preparations for his second crack at the world heavyweight championship, recruiting Frank Moran, Big Bill Tate and Dan Daly as sparring partners...

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Excerpt from The Glasgow Herald Sept 1907...Leading Irish heavyweight Private Dan Voyles was brought in to give a real test to Scotland's Colin Morrison following his disasterous showing against Empire champion Ern Waddy, and local fans went home happy as Morrison came back from a slow first two rounds to more than hold his own with the hard punching Voyles...Following a furious exchange of blows at the start of the last round, Morrison caught Voyles rushing in with a terrific hook to the head that wrote the end to the battle...At Edinburgh Hall Bombardier Wells showed the result of all his hard work over the last few months since hiring manager James Maloney and trainer Syd Nathan...He looked in superb shape and fought like the Wells of old when he seemed sure to capture world honours...Emile Masson, the Frenchman who knocked him out last July, never stood a chance against this version of the lanky Englishman with dynamite in his fists...Wells weighed 13st 9lb and Masson 13st 7lb...London's West End promoter Ray Charrington and Paris sports impresario Albert Nivelle are said to be behind the proposed heavyweight boxing tournament first suggested by the EBU two weeks ago to produce an interim champion...The series of matches was slated to feature the eight best men in EBU rankings, but Germany's Otto Flint is telling the press he will not be participating as he is already regarded as the number one challenger to the title currently held by Georges Carpentier, now campaigning in America...At Rotterdam big Jan De Groot had it all over Berlin's Ernst Rosemann, knocking him down and opening a bad cut in the 4th round, then reopening the cut in the very next round...Blood gushing from the wound over his left eye, Rosemann protested when the Dutch official awarded a technical knockout to De Groot...Charlie Weinert (13.6), now fighting out of England, got a rematch with the burly Frenchman Fernand Tresfort (15.5) and wore him out with constant movement and accurate flurries of punches, winning the decision by a wide margin...Tresfort collapsed from exhaustion in his corner as the result was announced...In a double bill at London's Blackfriars Ring Frank Goddard KO'd Louis Robur and Robert Bayle outboxed the Irish slugger Matt Killeen over eight innings ending Killeen's winning streak at ten bouts...

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From The Melbourne Argus Sept 1907...Promoter Hugh McIntosh put together a championship card during Ascot Race Week at Sydney Stadium, planning on attendance of at least twenty to thirty thousand, and hoping for 40,000...He had Albert Kid Lloyd's signature on articles and just needed a gimmick to draw the punters, as there was no obvious opponent to face him for the vacant Australasian title...Bill Walsh had lost to Lloyd in February and Pat Doran and Alec Pooley needed to reestablish their box-office credentials...A match between them would fill the semi windup...McIntosh decided on six foot four Jim "The Cornstalk" Tracey and played him up and the match with the press, pointing out it put Melbourne (Lloyd) against Sydney (Tracey) and a big contrast in styles...Tracey was unbeaten in his previous ten starts, had sent Soldier Ed Thompson into retirement and made George Stanley look like an old man...Tracey (13st 9lb) loomed over Lloyd (13st 8lb) by a head with an almost eight inch reach advantage yet remained a decided underdog when the opening bell clanged...The first two rounds were slow as neither man wanted to take a risk...In the next three rounds there was some hard fighting, and in the sixth both men were punching desperately at short range...In the seventh round the pace slowed down; Lloyd was shifty, but Tracey landed a heavy right-cross on the jaw and dazed Lloyd...In the next two innings Tracey made the pace a "corker". He uppercut the Victorian, and then chopped one hard to the jaw...In the next round a heavy, half-arm jolt rocked the long fellow's head, but he recovered nicely...The final rounds saw Tracey using a stiff left effectively, and Lloyd striving for a knockout...Tracey won on points and was handed the gold and silver championship belt...In the semi windup Doran had Pooley out on his feet in round one, but let him escape and gradually out-point him the rest of the way, six rounds to four; Doran going down for an eight count at 1:30 of round five...In the main prelimary Queensland's Dave Hawkes won seven of the eight rounds of his fight with former New South Wales amateur title-holder Harold Hardwick...From overseas cables Ern Waddy is set to box Jan De Groot of the Netherlands in the latter's home-ground and Colin Bell has signed to fight Frank Moran in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...

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Clipped from The Detroit Tribune September 1907...Fighting before a good crowd at the Chicago Coliseum, Harry Wills emerged the winner and new United States heavyweight champion, defeating the number one aspirant Fred Fulton of Minnesota...Fulton led the fighting in the early going behind a telephone pole-like straight left and a bone-crushing left hook...Things turned around in round five when Wills weathered a new assault and started landing his own artillery, repeating the same in the next round and the next...Wills sprang at Fulton in the eighth, straightened the lanky Minnesotan up with a left and then curved a right to the jaw that spilled Fulton on the canvas...He rose to his feet at the count of nine, only to reel into a smash that again settled him on the floor...He was struggling gamely but futilely to rise and face the slaughter again when Referee Ed Mahoney stopped the fight and awarded it to Harry on a technical knockout...The McCarty-Brennan world championship fight was plagued by problems from the start when a prominent backer proved to be a con man and was arrested and charged with fraud...then Bill Brennan was taken to bed with what seemed to be some sort of influenza with serious complications...then one of the main preliminary bouts was scrapped when Carl Morris, who was scheduled to box Jack Dempsey, was arrested for brawling in a public house...The whole show was cancelled and moved to November and Hazard's Pavilion outside Los Angeles promoted by Tom McCarey with Jess Willard as Luther McCarty's new opponent with a co-feature of Tom Cowler meeting Billy Miske, preceded by Jim Coffey facing Al Palzer...In Pittsburgh Colin Bell squared off with Frank Moran in a boring-in slugfest that nearly exhausted referee Bill Munro as he worked to pry the combatants apart...Bell managed to outlast the former dentist, and put Moran down three times in round nine, once from more of a push than a punch, but Munro allowed it and gave a TKO win to the burly Australian...Deprived of any other prospective matches, Bell told friends he was taking passage on the next ship home...

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From The Toronto Daily Star morning edition September 1907...Canadian heavyweight champion Frank O'Malley lost a referee's verdict to Philadelphia's long past it cutie Battling Levinsky last evening at the Mutual Street Arena, but fans overlooked it as they were still talking about the semi windup...Charlie Gage put on the best performance of his young ring career battering US import Jack Lester from pillar to post over eight rounds, with Referee Joe Francis scoring seven of them for Charlie...Rumours this morning tell of a heated scuffle in the dressing rooms last night between former stablemates O'Malley and Gage thanks to remarks made by one or two of the more dimwitted newshounds...Promoter Flanagan was quick to take advantage of the disagreement, talking both fighters into a defence of O'Malley's title for November...Over at the Armouries Arthur Pelkey started his comeback with a rough and tumble technical knockout of big Fred McKay...Pelkey looked rusty in the early going but soon had McKay stumbling around the ring, forcing the referee to stop the fight in the fourth round...In an interesting preliminary, Quebec's Soldier Jones (12-0) beat up on Hamilton's Charlie Fraser (28-19-4) who failed to avenge his loss to Jones last month...The proposed fight between O'Malley and Gage will surely put on hold the latter's scrap with Cowboy Bill Taylor, but a match between the Calgary cowpuncher and Pelkey would be a good attraction...Wilfrid Gagne out-pointed Toronto's Bill Doleman in Montreal, opening the way for a match with Wild Bert Kenny who eliminated Atlantic Coast champion Sailor Burke on Monday with a last minute knockout at Colliers Field in Sydney, Cape Breton...Fighting before about 500 fight fanatics at the Antigonish Sports Club, rising star Clyde Parker had some of the glitter knocked off when he was stopped by Ned O'Mara on a technical kayo in four rounds...Pretty obvious Parker had underestimated O'Mara...