Word: siki
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...spite of de Valera's recent order, issued through the "Minister of Home Affairs," forbidding the Siki-McTigue boxing match and ordaining a period of national mourning "in view of murder" of prisoners of war, St. Patrick's Day passed naturally enough. The Siki-McTigue bout took place and no one mourned-except Siki...
...Battling Siki: " I went to Ireland for a fight. A discerning editor commented: 'That is sending coals to Newcastle...
Georges Carpentier, gentleman boxer and, incidentally, champion pugilist of Europe, went up against Battling Siki, leopard-like negro Senegalese, with the only result that could reasonably have been expected. Not quite that, perhaps--since one might have figured the Frenchman would be killed, and he wasn...