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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither Siki nor McTigue showed sufficient skill or savagery to warrant the championship. The early rounds of the fight bored the crowd although their favorite, McTigue, was steadily outpointing the black champion. Siki showed commendable courage but a technical ignorance of his profession. The 17th round roused the Celtic spectators to savage pleas for Siki's blood, and lack of a knockout interfered seriously with their holiday...
Sitting at the ringside was Georges Carpentier. It will be recalled that, after his defeat by Siki, charges were made that the Negro had agreed to "lie down," but forgot his instructions so completely as to knock Carpentier out in the third round. It is not beyond the bounds of probability that Carpentier will now be matched with the inexpert McTigue in Paris. A graceful opportunity is thus afforded him to regain his championship without undergoing the ordeal of trading punches with the disagreeable Senegalese...
Walter Hagen, British open golf champion, created a world's record for tournament play over a links of recognized length when he turned in a card of 62 in the third round of the Florida West Coast open championship. [Hagen is shortly to begin work at the Fine Arts Studios in Hollywood as star in a cinema comedy entitled, The Man Who Cheated...
...Checking New Englanders Round the World" headlines the Boston Evening Transcript over an entire page-"Our Modern Pilgrims and Where They Are Today." Then follow great lists of Bostonians and New Englanders-"Leaving Kobe, Japan, tonight for Nagasaki": So-and-so and So-and-so and So-and-so; "At sea between Algiers and Monaco": So-and-so; " Now on the Nile...
...planned to hold the final round of the tournament next Saturday...