GILDO AND JARVIS.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 3, 3 July 1940, Page 10

GILDO AND JARVIS.

The boxing attraction for which Wellington has been waiting for. some weeks will be staged at the Town Hall on Saturday night. It will be a professional lightweight contest over twelve three-minute rounds betweeo Young Gildo, the "Filipino Flash," and Corporal Jack Jarvis, the New Zealand champion. There have been some stirring battles between these two in recent years, and it has still to be satisfactorily settled which is the master of the other. When they met at Auckland early this season Gildo took the decision by a shade, but Jarvis had then been out of the ring since last year, while Gildo was tuned up by a series of important matches in Australia. Consequently, the New Zealander is confident that he will be able to have his revenge on Saturday, and the form which he displayed in defending his title against Sharpe recently gives reason for his confidence. Gildo is a colourful figure, who has become extremely popular in this country as well as in Australia, and the fact that he has broken even with Johnny Hutchinson, the highly-ranked' American negro, in three contests, proves that there is nothing wrong with his current form.