Word: siki
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...held by the community. Newspaper comment bears witness to one of the elements of respect-interest. It may well be doubted whether the metropolitan papers will ever devote to teachers the amount of space they devote to the Mayor, to say nothing of Pola Negri and Battling Siki. But they might very properly be more sensitive to important work in the schools than they now are. And they might well give credit by name where credit by name...
...robbed," asserted Battling Siki, interviewed in the Rat Mort, a Paris cafe. The Sengalese fighter referred to the decision which relieved him of his crown of light-heavyweight champion of the world after his St. Patrick's Day fight with Mike Mc-Tigue in Dublin. As the evening wore on Siki's spirits rose. He knocked out a diner who laughed at him. The next morning the conquered convive had him haled to court for assault and battery...
...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...
...event Siki's name is henceforth listed in the " Who's Through " of pugilism...