OTAGO BOXING

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 96, 27 April 1929, Page 23

OTAGO BOXING

PROMISING AMATEUR

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN,' This Day

In amateur ranks it is .often possible to sort out a boy of distinct potentialities as a iirofessional fighter, and in Dunedin at the present time there is one lad who -impresses greatly as being likely to develop: iuto a champion in-.the..course of a year or two. He is Bert Lowe, lightweight, who is 'with Tommy Harris; Lea Murray's old trainer. Lowe is still a 'youngster, being only seventeen, but at the military tournaments he has along string of knock-out* to,his credit, and he is no wild fighter, but a good hard puncher, able to use both hands with a deadly left hook as his principal weapon. • He has not yet done a great deal of' boxing' in the open, but' in, a preliminary recently - knocked out his opponent, a useful lightweight, in. the second round. ' • ... , . ■■.. Lowe is still in the novice stages,, but he is improving all the time. He is a;fine stamp of lad with powerful shoulders and good arms, and one highly experienced - judge of the game reckons that, properly handled, he has great possibilities in. a few years' time. \ ■ ' ■' It is understood that Jack Paul will not be available for a professional fight Svith Artie Hay owing to the purse being only £100, and the Otago Boxings Association intends getting, into touch with: Reg ' Trowern with a. view to matching him with Hay on 11th May or the following week. Though Paul: beat Troweru, it was-not, a very inspiring.fight, and -hewould have been wise to.', accept.'the. present offer with a .view to proving that his recent display was not in accord with" his best form. ; .' ■■■-■*•■ The Otago Boxing Association intends staging several big amateur, tournaments' i in the near future.: The first, a: novice tourney, -' has been set down for' next mouth. There are, more-boys in. commission at the eight; local, schools than there have been for years past, :and ; some good material should be seen in action. An open tournament will be 1 held in' June, and the Otago championships in.the following month. 1 '"■"■."■ '