WORD FROM A WANDERER

NZ Truth, Issue 1143, 27 October 1927, Page 8

WORD FROM A WANDERER

And A Decision He Did Not Agree With The boxing business has more than its share of wanderers, but, wherever they get to, sooner or later the big lights attract them back again. ,

WORLD-TROTTERS like Sammy Chapman and Ben Tracey will be found m Sydney to-day, and tomorrow they will be bound for 'Frisco. Just when one is beginning to wonder how and where they are, there is a knock at the door and, 10, it is one or the other; of the pair. Much m the same category is Charlie Peoples, known throughout the length and breadth of New Zealand. : i Charlie bobs up m most unexpected places, and, be it town or city, he has always something to say about the business. Only about a fortnight back a postcard reached "N.Z. Truth" from Charlie, and he was then promoting fights way up north m Queensland. Things were said to be good, and it was reasonable to expect Charlie to stay there, but this week's mail brings further word of him — he is, or was when he wrote, m Sydney. Peoples went to see Purdy fight Pilkington and the decision given did not please him a little bit. In fact, it riled him some! So he had to get the pen and paper out and here is the result.

"Young Charlie fought the beet fight s I have ever seen him m and without a doubt made a goat of Pilkington, and , won by the proverbial mile. "Continued hooting followed the dei cision. How on earth Wallis declared i for the Yankee beats me. "In other states you read of Dwyer beating all-comers by v clever evasive boxing. "Pilkington did force the fighting but was continually hitting the air. "On the other hand, Purdy would • repeatedly, after making Pilkington i miss connect with light lefts to the face. "In my humble opinion Earl Stewart would cause a sensation over here as a referee. " "He is miles ahead of ajiy referee I have yet seen m Australia." ' It is not very often Charlie is so ; definite. 1 In his days m New Zealand he was inclined to be a little canny with his observations, though when he thought • he had a case he never hesitated to go m. Judging on his letter the Purdy fight was one of the occasions he had no doubt about the matter.