GOING STRONG

NZ Truth, Issue 971, 5 July 1924, Page 13

GOING STRONG

Los Murray's Southern Schools.

Friend L»es Murray drops me a few words from Dunedln:— "A(; present 1 have a few boys who have all the appearances of coming champions. One, Jack Edmond, a middleweight, shows i great promise and has a beautiful straight left and a very heavy right. So far he has outclassed all the boys he has met m tournaments here. Geo. Edwar.ds, a welter, won the novice class here and was awarded the medal for the best exhibition. In the final he met and knocked Mears, a very tough, awkward man. I expect to sco these two well up among tho N.Z. champions this year. 1 also have a very fine feather who has 'all the makings,' and who fought very well m the recent tourney. He is Tommy Walker, son of T.W., the champion wrestler. I am very busy at present with my pupils, having Waitakl College, * tho Otago University, a class at Oamaru and about fifty pupils In Dunedin. There are two boys m my Oamaru class who remind me forcibly of two champions I have met. Dave Richardson is a second Charlie Purdy, having wonderful evasion and a great left hand. He Is just sixteen and is a Jightwelght. The other man is Archie Bradley the second, and is one of the no treat things to perpetual motion that I have Been. He doesn't pull any; rough-hou»e stuff, but is a real whirlwind and packs a great punch,"