"ABSOLUTELY FOBBED.”
BON INC AT OLYMPIC DAMES. AUCKLAND, Kepi. I. ■| was absolutely rohheil right ami left. Il l did not win that fighi, ihen I have never won any other,” says Charlie Purdy, the Auckland amateur boxer, who represented New Zealand at the Olympic Dames at Paris, in a letter written just alter Ihe contest, in which the decision was given against him in favour ol his French opponent t. GREAT RESENTMENT.
The young Am blander says he had endured a very trying and disappointing time as regards training conditions as they were impossible. “I was robbed 111 the light, which I won Irom start to finish," lie asserts. "During the lirst two rounds 1 1»* never Hit me." Purdy says there was great re-enl-meuL when the deeisiou was given against him. Wlnit made it more heart-breaking was the fact that he was lighting out of lii-s division as a lightweight, and that he was improper! v trained. Purely adds: ” 1 here was nobody in my corner who knew anything at all about boxing. The referee was a Frenchman, one of the judges was an American, and the other iudgo was ol another nationality. The Yankee l gave me 0 points out of 10. and said it was the finest exhibition of tile morning.”
Pure!v says he will probably fight in Denmark and America.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1924, Page 1
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