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In 1927 Bala Sein entered a three day tournament which was held from November 6 to November 8 at Kandawgyi Lake in Rangoon, on the occasion of [[Harcourt Butler|Governor Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler]]'s farewell festivities. He was first seed out of some 50 other boxers. The champion in first class received a gold medal from Minister of Home Affairs [[Joseph Augustus Maung Gyi|J.A. Maung Gyi]]. The consolation prize for second class was a cup awarded by Lance Corporal Lim Kar Taik, son of Sino-Burmese entrepreneur [[Lim Chin Tsong]].[{{cite news |title=ဘုရင်ခံနှုပ်ဆက်ပွဲတော်ကြီးတွင် လက်ဖွေ့တံခွန်လုပွဲကြီး။|work=သူရိယသတင်းစာ |trans-title=The Sun|language=Burmese |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=668154527151665&set=pcb.668154550484996 |access-date=27 July 2022 |publisher=Ba Pe |date=6 November 1927}}][{{cite news |title=Untitled |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/singfreepressb19230904-1.2.10 |access-date=27 July 2022 |work=The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser |date=4 September 1923}}] |
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In 1927 Bala Sein entered a three day tournament which was held from November 6 to November 8 at [[Kandawgyi Lake]] in Rangoon, on the occasion of [[Harcourt Butler|Governor Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler]]'s farewell festivities. He was first seed out of some 50 other boxers. The champion in first class received a gold medal from Minister of Home Affairs [[Joseph Augustus Maung Gyi|J.A. Maung Gyi]]. The consolation prize for second class was a cup awarded by Lance Corporal Lim Kar Taik, son of Sino-Burmese entrepreneur [[Lim Chin Tsong]].[{{cite news |title=ဘုရင်ခံနှုပ်ဆက်ပွဲတော်ကြီးတွင် လက်ဖွေ့တံခွန်လုပွဲကြီး။|work=သူရိယသတင်းစာ |trans-title=The Sun|language=Burmese |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=668154527151665&set=pcb.668154550484996 |access-date=27 July 2022 |publisher=Ba Pe |date=6 November 1927}}][{{cite news |title=Untitled |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/singfreepressb19230904-1.2.10 |access-date=27 July 2022 |work=The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser |date=4 September 1923}}] |
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In 1932 he entered a tournament organized by Minister of Home Affairs [[Maung Ba|U Ba]] and administered by U Thein Maung (Ohn Khaing) and U Tun Yin.[{{cite news |title=မြန်မာလက်ဝှေ့ပွဲကြီး နီးလာပြီ။ ဆောင်းပါရှင် ဘဦး၏ အကြံပေးချက်။|work=သူရိယသတင်းစာ |trans-title=The Sun|language=Burmese |page=22 |publisher=Ba Pe |date=22 December 1932}}] Together with Phyu Lay Gyi, Kyar Aye Sein, Paw Sa, Pyi Taw Pyan, Yin Lone, Doe Phyu Kalay and Phyu Lay Pyan, he battled to win U Ba's cup which was previously won by [[Pyi Taw Pyan]] in 1931.[{{cite news |title=ပြည်ထဲရေးဝန်ကြီး ဦးဘ ကြီးမှူးသော လက်ဝှေ့ပွဲကြီး။ |work=သူရိယသတင်းစာ |trans-title=The Sun|language=Burmese |page=3 |publisher=Ba Pe |date=24 December 1932}}][{{cite news |title=လွန်ခဲ့သောနှစ်က ပြည်ထဲရေးဝန်ကြီး ဦးဘ၏ ရွှေတံဆိပ်နှင့် ဖလားကို ရသွားသော ချန်ပီယံများ |work=သူရိယသတင်းစာ |trans-title=The Sun|language=Burmese |publisher=Ba Pe |date=26 December 1932 |page=18}}] The absence of Kular Pyan (Mawlamyine), contender for the cup in 1931, was due to a fractured hand.[{{cite news |title=အထူးပျော်ရွှင်ပွဲသဘင်ကြီး၊ ယနေ့ဆက်ထတ်-လက်ဝှေ့ထိုးတက်ဦးမည် |work=သူရိယသတင်းစာ |trans-title=The Sun|language=Burmese |publisher=Ba Pe |quote=လက်နာပျောက်သည်ရှိသော်တိုက်ပေးလိမ့်မည်၊ ဥပမာကုလားပျံလက်နာမပျောက်သေးဘဲရှိနေသော်၊ ရွှေခရိင်းကိုလေယာဥ်ပျံနှင့်တိုက်ပေးမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း။|date=3 January 1933}}] Bala Sein ended up winning the tournament and was awarded the cup and medal by U Ba himself. |
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In 1932 he entered a tournament organized by Minister of Home Affairs [[Maung Ba|U Ba]] and administered by U Thein Maung (Ohn Khaing) and U Tun Yin.[{{cite news |title=မြန်မာလက်ဝှေ့ပွဲကြီး နီးလာပြီ။ ဆောင်းပါရှင် ဘဦး၏ အကြံပေးချက်။|work=သူရိယသတင်းစာ |trans-title=The Sun|language=Burmese |page=22 |publisher=Ba Pe |date=22 December 1932}}] Together with Phyu Lay Gyi, Kyar Aye Sein, Paw Sa, Pyi Taw Pyan, Yin Lone, Doe Phyu Kalay and Phyu Lay Pyan, he battled to win U Ba's cup which was previously won by [[Pyi Taw Pyan]] in 1931.[{{cite news |title=ပြည်ထဲရေးဝန်ကြီး ဦးဘ ကြီးမှူးသော လက်ဝှေ့ပွဲကြီး။ |work=သူရိယသတင်းစာ |trans-title=The Sun|language=Burmese |page=3 |publisher=Ba Pe |date=24 December 1932}}][{{cite news |title=လွန်ခဲ့သောနှစ်က ပြည်ထဲရေးဝန်ကြီး ဦးဘ၏ ရွှေတံဆိပ်နှင့် ဖလားကို ရသွားသော ချန်ပီယံများ |work=သူရိယသတင်းစာ |trans-title=The Sun|language=Burmese |publisher=Ba Pe |date=26 December 1932 |page=18}}] The absence of Kular Pyan (Mawlamyine), contender for the cup in 1931, was due to a fractured hand.[{{cite news |title=အထူးပျော်ရွှင်ပွဲသဘင်ကြီး၊ ယနေ့ဆက်ထတ်-လက်ဝှေ့ထိုးတက်ဦးမည် |work=သူရိယသတင်းစာ |trans-title=The Sun|language=Burmese |publisher=Ba Pe |quote=လက်နာပျောက်သည်ရှိသော်တိုက်ပေးလိမ့်မည်၊ ဥပမာကုလားပျံလက်နာမပျောက်သေးဘဲရှိနေသော်၊ ရွှေခရိင်းကိုလေယာဥ်ပျံနှင့်တိုက်ပေးမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း။|date=3 January 1933}}] Bala Sein ended up winning the tournament and was awarded the cup and medal by U Ba himself. |