IS POSTPONED A WEEK

NZ Truth, Issue 1195, 25 October 1928, Page 12

IS POSTPONED A WEEK

Statements That Were Wild And Wide Of The Mark The meeting between Charlie Purdy and Tommy Fairhall will not now take place till Monday evening next.

ORIGINALLY , the pair should have met this week, but illness overtook Fairhall and he applied for a week's postponement. Contracting a chill on the trip over from Sydney, Fairhall was laid low. Last week he interviewed the secretary of the association and it was plain that he would not ibe able to go on if the original date was stuck to. • He possibly would have* been able to take the ring, but he would not have been a fit man. Realizing that it would he just as unfair to patrons as to Fairhall, a week's grace, was granted. The dear old "Dominion," after the postponement' was announced rushed into print with a story that an emergency meeting, of the committee had witnessed poor old Fairhall climb the stairs on crutches. Tom was a fit and prop ( er person to apply for entrance to the old men's home if the dear, old docile was to be believed. 4

Fairhall was bad — he certainly did not display any signs of the Kruschen feeling — but as for crutches and an appeal to a hastily summoned committee — that was. so much balderdash. A couple of days after the postponement, Fairhall was practically himself again, and he is going to be quite all right when he takes the ring on Monday evening. This will be the third meeting of the pair. In their first up a draw was given. Then the second time Fairhall won a victory on points. And he, incidentally, did not a little bit to turn one of Purdy's ears into a cauli. It is just possible that this will be FairhalPs one and only appearance m New Zealand this trip. He Is not likely to hang round long if there is no prospect of getting set for another contest — it will be home to Cessnock.