Monday, Jun. 25, 1923
That Senegalese
Battling Siki, Negro heavyweight, grows stranger week by week. Tex Rickard queried the Senegalese by cable on his terms for a bout with Kid Norfolk in America. Siki's response named such an enormous figure that even the expansive Rickard held up his hands in horror.
A day or two later Siki fouled Morelle, middleweight champion of France, in the sixth round of a fight in Paris. When Morelle went down Siki was so ignorant of the ethics of his profession that he began bowing to the crowd under the impression that he had scored a clean knockout. It took the referee some time to convince him that the foul blow had ended the fight--in Morelle's favor.