HUTCHINSON IN TOWN

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 15

HUTCHINSON IN TOWN

THE "PHILADELPHIA EXPRESS"

One morning this week two expresses arrived in' Wellington, one inside the. other. • Aboard the Limited, from Auckland was Johnny Hutchirison, the American negro lightweight boxer who has been nicknamed the Philadelphia Express to mark his birthplace and the speed, of his work 'in, : the ring. ; Hutchinson is to have; a : return contest with *'Young Gildo, the "Filipino - Flash," at the Wellington Town Hall next Saturday night. When Hutchinson left America two ; years ago he was ranked fifth among the world's featherweights: Since then he has put on sufficient weight to;. place him\ in the. lightweight class.Owing to his absence from the States, he is no longer included in the ranking lists. Competent authorities, however, consider: that Hutchinson must be included among the top half-dozen of the present-day lightweights. ; His record includes' a. win. ov)er . Sammy 'Angott,: whom, the latest .available ranking lists place second amopg the world lightweights. Hutchinson. drew some huge "gates" in Australia, ! where he was recognised as one of ■ the most brilliant boxers ever seen in that country. During : his stay in Wellington Hutchinsoh is training daily: at the Newtown gymnasium: from 2 p.m. till 3 p.m., an. dthe public are invited to watch him in action. ■ Tomorrow morning he will have a work-out at 10.30 o'clock. Each evening until next Friday he will do : shadow-sparring on th« stage at the De ;Luxe • Theatre.

A surprise/ vi the latest series of skate^hockey championship matches in.' Wellington was the defeat of Tigers by ■Cyclones.. It was the-first-.time the. Tigers had been defeated <in years* Play was exceptionally keen —-at times over-keen—and the,match was one 61 the most exciting of the' season. The result was 2-1... Dufnn and Burtenshaw did best for. the winners and Mac Donald.and Man^on for Tigers. : Cyclones also beat Civic—by 5 goals to nil. Turnbull scored &urof'the goalSj and other players . show oip well were J. Mansoh aiid Amory (Civic) and Lockerbie (Cyclones). Championship points iri the. Welling* ton skate-.hb.qke.y: champipnship are: Cyclones 1, Tiger's 6, Pirates 5, Civic 4, Rovers 0, Idons 0~. An Auckland-Wellington rejSresentative hockey match is to be played at Wellington on-August 31. ~