Word: siki
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Training Camp for prize fighters near Summit, N.J.; of a heart attack; in Morristown, N.J. Widow of a onetime Turkish Consul General in New York, she had fed and mothered fighters on her farm for nearly 20 years. Among her "boys" were Tunney, Camera, Berlenbach, Schmeling, Battling Siki. She never bet on a fight...
...smart Joe Jacobs got Battling Siki, a coal-black African, to defend his world's light-heavyweight championship against his own boy, Mike McTigue. as Irish as the Blarney stone-not in New York, but in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day. In 1928. still smarter, he snitched Max Schmeling from the German manager who had brought him to the U. S., publicized him as the "German Dempsey," and, by storming into the ring and yelling "Foul" when Jack Sharkey hit Schmeling a questionably low blow, is generally credited with winning the world's heavyweight championship...