Salvino Jamito

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 363, 25 May 1928, Page 10

Salvino Jamito

HAS SIGNED CONTRACT IN NEW YORK WITH BILLY GIBSON ENGAGED FOR TWO YEARS New Zealand fight fans will no doubt be surprised to learn that our old friend Jamito, the durable Filipino, is in New York. During the few months he spent in the Dominion last year he was successful in being matched against some of Maoriland’s best, and Aucklanders will well remember his fight with Charlie Purdy in this city when he was beaten on points. JT is something to cause wonder that his activities in the American ring will be attended to by no less a worthy than Mr. Billy Gibson, the best known, most popular, and most capable of* all America’s men of fistic affairs, whose guiding hand brought the present heavy-weight champion, Gene Tunney, so much in the limelight. It was Billy

Grime’s intention that he, too, would look after his boxing business. The “hard-as-bricks” coloured boxer writes: “I arrived at New York yesterday, March 26, and immediately signed a two years’ contract with Mr. Billy Gibson. That gentleman wanted to make it five, but I promised that, all going well, at the end of my present contract, I would sign again for a like period.” (Like the babbling brook, Jamito is evidently going on for ever. S.P.).

“Last night I saw the fight between Domnic Petrone and Ignacio Fernandez. It was a great fight and was called a draw, though I thought my countryman had won; in that direction I "was not on my own, for the verdict -was most unpopular.”