Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Battling Siki, Negro heavyweight, grows stranger week by week. Tex Rickard queried the Senegalese by cable on his terms for a bout with Kid Norfolk in America. Siki's response named such an enormous figure that even the expansive Rickard held up his hands in horror...
Sued for Divorce. Harry A. Williams, Jr., real estate broker of Norfolk, Va., by Mrs. Marthena Harrison Williams, who was born in the White House during the incumbency of her grandfather, the late President Benjamin Harrison...
Since being bitten by a lion in a Paris café, Battling Siki has faded from the public eye. He takes the opportunity to regain a place in the news columns by refusing publicly an alleged offer from Tex Rickard of $10,000 to fight Kid Norfolk, American Negro, in New York this summer. Siki explains that since his experience with Mike McTigue in a Dublin ring he has become convinced that he can get a square deal "nowhere in the world outside of continental Europe...
...Defeats Norfolk Country Club...
After defeating the Country Day School at Richmond by a score of 8-0 last Monday, the team went on south to Norfolk, where it defeated the Country Club of that city 7-1. In the singles each University man required but two sets to win his point. The one tally against the Crimson was due to Duane's two Bundys, M. H. and F., who defeated Ingraham and Duane...