READY FOR FIGHT

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2304, 5 September 1929, Page 6

READY FOR FIGHT

CHARLIE PURDY ARRIVES i lIIS DEFEATS BY HANCOCK ‘Sydney pressman s timbute •;.r; ' , . • - . . ; , Fit- and well lor hi.s witH ■Artio Hay in tl»*> Town Hall next .Alondny, Charlie Purdy, the Auckland professional boxer, has returned hfroin Australia, .accompanied by his ; new manager, Air A. McQueen. It is 12 months since Purdy was ‘• last * u his homo city. Since then ’ >ixo has had "eight matches for four ‘/twins. He won on points against ■ Bobby La. Salle, Hop Harry - Stone, ‘ and Blupy Jones, while lie. scored over Jack Carroll ’ on a-foill. Jones ■if,heat, him on a foul in -aV rethrn match, Tommy Fair hall won a. close / points decision over him and he was ■'twice stopped by Sailor Wally Han- ‘ ' coc’v. ‘ ;'il Purdy’s fights against Hancock ‘ were anioug the most sensational of ihis career. In the first he was ?//knocked out in, the third round fom' /.//seconds after the .gong had sounded c-,‘without being heard above the cheer- • ■ ting- and yellhig of the fans. ( A re- . jturn match was arranged and in this Hancock scored with a . t<mh»-cal /knock-out in the - twelfth round. Although boaten in these fights, Purdy showed himself in a new -.. 'light—as a; fighter-boxer and not as ‘/t ft "boxer pure and simple. / On each occasion he , whs given a i, [great ovation by the- crowd for his . game showing and at least one of y? Sydney V sporting scribes compared bis pluck to anything that had pre- •.>■ yiously been seen . in that- city* ; {‘‘Purdy went on; fighting long after h : }, j s battered frame had cried enough ; his fighting heart alone k'ept him ’■* going,” the Sydney writer penned. Hancock, says Purdy, lias a. won- *: derful lcf£ hook, and has improved \\ out of all. sight in his recent matches. Tti the Aucklander’s opinion lie ly is likely to beat the best of bis 5/ weight in Australia. Purdy claims

tlßt until he was beaten by Hancock, he was tho champion wclterweight of Australia, Carroll having refused for six months t°' S> vo him a return match for tho titleWhen Purdy steps into the ring next Monday niglit ho will bo making his first Auckland appearance for two and a half years, bis la'd fight there having been when lie defeated Jamito on points over ten rounds. In his two previous matches with Hay the Aucklander scored onc o on points and divided the honours on the other occasion. Purdy mention.- 1 edj to-day that Hay will have to make 10.7 when the pair weigh in. Ft is Purdy’s intention to stay In New Zealand as long n.s he can 'get matches. After Hat he will return to Australia, as-lie likes the country and regards the Australialn people as fine spoilsmen'. It ' s evidently Purdy’s idea to settle permanently in Sydney, for he lms entered into partnership with Nick Winter, the Australian Olympic Games representative and holder of the world’s hop, step and jump record, in the management of a billiards parlour in George street. ’ “Business’ ’-is very cood 1 ,,” smiled Purdy, in tolling of his venture into "billiards saloon ownership. i l ■ -