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Updated: May 7, 2025
In the front row of the spectators sat a man with a parti-coloured tie. He wondered idly what tie it was. It was rather like one worn by members of Templar's house at Wrykyn. Why were the ropes of the ring red? He rather liked the colour. There was a man lighting a pipe. Would he blow out the match or extinguish it with a wave of the hand? What a beast Peteiro looked. He really was a nigger.
It is true that at least one of his injuries had been the work of a Pauline whom he had met in the opening bout; but the great majority were presents from Ripton, and Drummond had described the dusky one, in no uncertain terms, as a holy terror. These things had sunk into Stanning's mind. It had been generally understood at Wrykyn that Peteiro had left school at Christmas.
So that was the famous Peteiro! Sheen admitted to himself that he looked tough, and hurried into his coat and out of the dressing-room again so as to be in time to see how the Ripton terror shaped. It was plainly not a one-sided encounter. Peteiro's opponent hailed from St Paul's, a school that has a habit of turning out boxers. At the end of the first round it seemed that honours were even.
This proved a harder fight than his first encounter, but by virtue of a stout heart and a straight left he came through it successfully, and there was no doubt as to what the decision would be. Both judges voted for him. Peteiro demolished a Radleian in his next fight. By the middle of the afternoon there were three light-weights in the running Sheen, Peteiro, and a boy from Clifton.
Mr Spence came and sat down beside him. "Well, Sheen," he said, "so you won your first fight. Keep it up." "I'll try, sir," said Sheen. "What do you think of Peteiro?" "I was just wondering, sir. He hits very hard." "Very hard indeed." "But he doesn't look as if he was very clever." "Not a bit. Just a plain slogger. That's all. That's why Drummond beat him last year in the Feather-Weights.
It was impossible for the Sportsman to have been hoaxed. No, the incredible, outrageous fact must be faced. Sheen had been down to Aldershot and won a silver medal! Sheen! Sheen!! Sheen who had who was well, who, in a word, was SHEEN!!! Linton read on like one in a dream. None of his opponents gave him much trouble except Peteiro of Ripton, whom he met in the final.
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