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...Siki has faded from the public eye. He takes the opportunity to regain a place in the news columns by refusing publicly an alleged offer from Tex Rickard of $10,000 to fight Kid Norfolk, American Negro, in New York this summer. Siki explains that since his experience with Mike McTigue in a Dublin ring he has become convinced that he can get a square deal "nowhere in the world outside of continental Europe...
Unless present plans fail, Mike McTigue of Ireland will defend his world's light-heavyweight title against Georges Carpentier, former champion, in the Yankee Stadium, New York, on July...
Last February The Harvard Lampoon (humorous) published a number burlesquing Town and Country (society picture-magazine). It contained an article on a Catholic wedding at " St. Mike's Church...
...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...
Battling Siki, dark blot on the Carpentier 'scutcheon, lost the light heavyweight championship of the world in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day to Mike McTigue, third-rate American fighter. In the 17th round of the scheduled 20, the Senegalese faltered about the ring, groggy before McTigue's punches, finally falling into a clinch to hug himself safe from a knockout. The American received the decision on points...