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...Battling Siki: " In Paris, I walked into Maxim's for dinner, leading a lion on a leash. Exeunt omnes! Later the diners got courage enough to return and buy me champagne. Still later those of them who were most jovial patted my lion...
Said McTigue in a letter to his manager: "I am sure I will K. O. Carpentier and then for Tunney. I fooled all the wise fellows here [in Dublin] who thought Siki would...
...boots. Deliberately false advertising, that's what it is.' " General Pershing: "I issued an order that the Army should improve its style in correspondence. Conciseness, brevity, careful wording, correct paragraphing and the personal touch-these things make the perfect letter, and the perfect letter-writer." Battling Siki: "Because I punched the face of a waiter in a cafe, a Paris newspaper suggested that 'in the name of all organizations calling for good sportsmanship, Siki be captured, chained and sent back to his native Senegal, where he can enjoy himself with the rest of the savages." Florence Reed...
Fallen but still the idol of France is Georges Carpentier. At an American Legion benefit the crowded Crique de Paris rose to shout their greeting. The ovation lasted through his sparring match and until the dressing room had closed its door upon him. Battling Siki, who knocked out Carpentier for the world's light-heavyweight championship on September 24, entered the same ring amid hoots and hisses...
...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...