The evening world. Newspaper, October 6, 1922, Page 31

BATTLING SIKI, THE SIKI, ONCE JUNG ».THEN A BOTTLEWASHER, - NOW WORLD Senegalese Pugilist, Conqueror of Carpentier, a War Hero and Twice Decorated by the French Government. The following is the first of two arti on Battling SIki who Jumped into pugiiistic fame > Soring @ six-round knockout Georges Carpentier, The reco Companying Is the first to be printed in this country. The second artl will be printed In these pages to- morrow, By Ferdinand Tuohy. (Special Correspondettt of The Eve- ° ning World.) PARIS, Sept. 27.—As I write this, “Bit, -Burope’s new boxing champion, {8 "being cheered to the echo not a huldred yards away on the boulevard. He is seated up on the back of a taxi “eat, driven by a colored chauffeur, and is blowing kisses to the pretty -Parisiennes on the sidewalk, who re- turn them’ with interest... Flowers, "too, are thrown at t* new del, who is on his way to a sporting~ nows- paper, office where a ‘‘champagne @honneur’’ is to be given him I ‘was at one yesterday. Battling Siki’s idea of returning thapiks to the company within and to thé multitude blocking the street ‘without is to hug and kiss all those fiearest him and to smile, smile, SMILE—huge lips apart and reveal- ‘ing pearly white blocks of teeth. He -dotan’t seem capable of any sustained sentence of thanks, But he 1s the idol “Of Paris and he is going to be the lion of the winter's season, ‘Thus comes glory, with a punch, as it departs with others, for as you behold the feted and victory-drunk Siki your thoughts revert automatic- ally to the fallen gladiator who had 280 despised, him, the handsome and debonair Carpentier, hero ef a hun- red fights, darling of. the ladies and inspirer of French athletic youth. See -him now while they scoff at him on the boulevards, a poor, mangled, half- @ THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER NE Fé 6, 1922, - W PUGILISTIC STAR, HAS GOOD RECO Ai }! RECORD OF SIKI raosant Cheat anme—fouls Phn!.) Born at @&. Louie of Senegal, Sept. 16, 1807. Married. One child. Professions: boxer since 1913. WINNERS’ ARE_TAXI GUYS AND SIXTH AVENUE “L,” DECLARES NEAL O'HARA “Hildy Was Seeing "Em as Well in Tenth as He Was in First.” By Neal O’Hara. Comte. one Publiaiing Comper Everybody knows New Yorls will win this series, but nobody figured it would take ‘em go long.’ “Yester: day's jam ended in tie for Yanks dnd Giants, and rict for Jedge Landis. Winners were taxi gttye end Sixth Avenus “L.”” Game was cajted on account of di Hildo- brand claimed coulda’t see plain enough at the end of tenth. But Hildy was egeing 'em af well fo tho tenth as he Was in first. Only alibi for ump chopping contegt short was that he's devotee of daylight saving, Shawkey held Sofhis scoreless for nine innings, but they were the #tong nine innings. Mugmen spanked thre v1) healthy rum® inte icebox befpre re served seat trade were in thelr seats. That was only bad tuning Shawkey had. Hildebrand had ten times as many. Jedge Landis, Chairman of the’ National Percentage of 10 Per Cent., rules that game counts in box effice but not in the standing. Bvery eye and ear. witness of yesterday's match ig entitled to sée to-day's game on presentation of admission price,” 4s case may be. Working under spiritual conundrum that charity begins at home plate, managements have jointly announced that they will donate 50 cents to United States Government for every ticket they sell at $5.50. Players have offered services free after first four games, and magnates and Naftonal Commish will share gravy with public on basis of 60-60, The magnates tak- ta the two 6s and the public grabbing the zeroes, LE BOY, "S CHAMPION apanked safeties and ©. Meusel 4wiped out home rap. It logked like might would triumph over right-hand pitching. In Yankee chibhouse cor- don of valets were warming up nice shower bath for Shawkey as three ‘und rippled over plate. But that was end of Glant thunder. Ralnbow curved over Shawkey then, Chronological travelogue of pas- time after that was safe and sane Shooting from Shawkey. From sec- ond .to 10th’ ining, inclusive, he made Giants look like Gnats. Yanks then started to gather runs like tired business men. Got one fm ‘fret. Got one in fourth, Got one in eighth. Might have got one in 1ith, but syn- thetic darkness interfered, In second; Frisch mado Ringling leap {or Seott’s drive and caught it by neat Australian crawl, Second bade is where the flying Frisches are, Can’t convince those Yank batters that Frankie ain't plural, Covera larger part of infleld than tarpaulin on a rainy day. Tn third inning Kelly struck out. ‘That made World Series look natural. Barnes chucked loose ones at Babe in thig-frame, Worked on Bam like major opetation and then let Pasha of Pelts hoof on four balls, Ip fourth,’ Ward paddied very neat homer. It was a mean crack, just like Kipling made. That was second round-trip clout of day. But long knotks by Ruth are still missing, lke teeth from octogenarian’s mouth, Don't suck up idea Babe ain’t try- ing, though, That boy tried to steal home in elghth, but Meusel fouled before Bam roared into the ’ plate. Then Bob poled double to centrefleld before Babe could unfurl dash to platter again, That scored tying run and sewed up contest for to-aay’s customers, ‘Fouloute..1.0..3. Perroud. KO. Nicolas sevepe 2 Frank Roose. .10 ‘Patles-g B..Tom, Derr: Amsterdam. (1.0..N. Stimpson Amsterdgia. April 36. May 1)..Amstetdani Harry Reeve, May 1 rt D.. Harry Reev ee Paris. .G.P..Marcel NI a arta. RECAPIT Matches engaged tn torles, 43; Nuit mates EXPLANATORY TERMS —~Knoekout. i. are on ‘pointe. ce Ns ponent. ee Ohio State Eleven Loses Likely Playe COLUMBUS, 0., Oct. 6.—Noel Work- man of Huntington, W. Va., whe prob- ably would have held down the quarter- back job on this year's Obio State Uni- versity football team, has been declared ineligible and will be lost to the squad, ‘a — Smith, the toughest boil in Giant lineup, Odme as pinch swatter in the ninth. Wednésday, pinch-slammine for Mugmen, Smith rapped into dou- ble play, Only reason he didn't unconsclous mass, guarded almost savagely by his two dearest friends Descamps, who had managed him since taking him as a boy from the mainey ‘of Lens, and Pierre Mallet, Parisian sportsman. woul he was known until a rich French if put in bei! boy's clothes. ‘‘Bayes's”* parents being agreeable the occidental it became known yesterday. Workman's elimination is considered a serious blow to the State eleven, Umping for this series has slipped carbon copy that performance yester- from bad to terrible. Yesterday four day was no One was on base to dou woman, visiting Senegal, thought he statement from Thomas %,Jumps were being ridden like ponies Reeth eis realy i fia Aral he nt ‘of th . 3 fans + BS adorn hes villa: on: $e Beary, MBoahd.<” gunounced Weree| of the Fass Horgomen) ‘Tbe with his éight-poung chopstick. And know that every one makes mistakes, man’s ingligibility. It said that after re but umpers ere trying to prove it too that, was.all there was. There wasn't checking over this year’s football candi- any’ more. : ie sale vg. | dates it was found that Workman has Meth eleiMecame aad, went) Aa Carpentier turns and twists on| Woman bought “Baye” and re-1 i044 season of conference competition | fte- 4 tidaF*ene| that’ ocdat, Shen wmpey-denided. {t ed : stor | christened him Louis Phal. by playing: as a freshman at Bethany| Way Hildebrand was squinting ‘em | th ( \ ohisic: +p bed there two try and doctor Coleg We Van in teite hee ne a, “d_claim that ball was |%@s 80 dark that Whitey Wits looker his eyes and his hands, his mouth and| Little Louis was then -ten, 8) Lveh'two years at Oblo State, he te, esterday he'd claim tha a. Hitdy | )*e Prunette.and foul Ines soemo: “eats “ana ‘nose. For, if possible, | sturdy youngster, knowing but @ few! technically ineligible for further partici. | strike and that vico was versa. ¥|‘iko mourting bands: In gratitude Gegrwes is uglier now than his op- \-ponent—a terrible spectacle of muss. ered manhood. But, in the fashion of the hour, co not let us tarry with him. Ho ts done. His day is over. Like throwing an old boot out of a window. Paris has finished ‘with htm—ingratitude more strong than traitors’ arins may- be, but that is how things work out. Let us turn instead to the new champion Who will set the mode for the season, for you may be quite sure that no chic Parisienne will be with- out a colored chauffeur these next few months, that colored bell boys will be in strong demand at cabarets and restaurants, and that the colored jaiz band, almost exterminated, will _ gain a new lease of life. SIKI Is a Senegalese, bord in the jungle, at St. Loufs du Senegal, Sept. 16; 1997. In the ‘Jungle they culled . the little colored boy “Baye,” and so arei ture an had Lou was boxi the deni: | Opinions on Ca President Weydler Supports the ‘ Umpire's Ruling. John A. Heydier, President of the National Ly stood firmly behind “the devision.of Ceorge Hildebrand, the e-in-chiet, In cajjing the s gume of the We 7 rles be the Giants and the al the ofthe tenth inning “yesterday afternoon. Although the fans. decision and end Polo Grounds Ho sala: *rloted* ven taunte t thi againgt 1 Judge the son his way out t Leas led be » One of the players even rei Milidebrand’s decision in could be added to Hein of tte 1917 serie: ithat] “lot the are allin, the a li will when he ¢hased Je Collins over the plate, . “The umpires were right in calling ‘son. words of French. lived near Nice with mother or protectress or whatever one Madame met with a violent end (na- found himself jobless and all alone on France, so the future idol of Paris} 4 washer in a Toulouse bar. remained two or three years, and in between his bottle washing activities points, petting a joint sum equivalent t6 aghty cents for all three matches. He could get only two more fights broke en ummnmmenmemest standpoint of the fans, es the near pation in football, although under a ape clat jurisdiction rule he may atill play basketball and baseball. pies Pas Lee Primeetum Varsity in Last Ha: Sorimm PRINCETON, Ny J., Oct. 6.—In a last hard scrimmage before the Virginia game on Saturday, the Princeton varsity scored four touchdowns against the Om- elettes on Untversity Field yester- . Bill Ropeg has been giving his harges easy wérkouts this week, but yeaterday proved to be an excep- tion, the scrimmage being long end bard, beth on the defensive und offensive. Beginning with signal drill, practice was next davoted to parsing and kicking was all wet in hot water yesterday, inal sunset. ‘One SS Aryh Pes i clubs | cedless razzberries. Crowded around nore day Tike he had then and coe eet eerie ened New York will present him with tin dipper in| is 4 strigtiy anthracite city, mado ecognition of services, along with | up of eggs and nuts, mixed. Threat- lind man’s privilege on busy street. Sante wee wae ss ree | didn't may sat a yers. All those umps dress aliké, but any | (yet ne ty tiem ae pon me tell which league they're vottles are thrown at unfortified out- working for without a score-card.| \elders. But National Commish has Four umpires sownds like enough. to look out for itself. But even with two guys to wateh the atistics of National Commission's other two, decisions have been golag » to date nroves commission does from fair to ywful. for seciiig é&ttd innitig of plays, tans zave Landis -beautiful. set picce oi Vor three years he his adopted Then one day 3 to call her. unrecorded) and 1 Louls equality with whites here in can soon fixed things up as a bottle Here he look out for itself, To-day is another day end date. found thes te train and ¥. fight bis} aril, Joe Scherer was on band to] Whether Yanks make series even as first fights, This was in 1913, when]couch the punters, Hilts, Cleave and When game hae lt Ns ou and strictly according to i Vangerbig dging most of this kicking. yple crushing time in Harlem. = . » . he gained two knockouts and a win on] poe part of the afternoon's} ie Hoyt. He is guy that gocs in box croft, the Abou Ben Adhem of Joint batting order, was ripe picking. Then to-day, If Joints up and paste perismenges found the varsity on the ge. Brooklyn ipfant wonder, then it's a fensive against the serubs, but during the short time that they were on the] \iugmen landed on Shawkey like | Sd toothpick to a sliver of wood is was now sixteen, but the war ofrensive, Newby, Cleaves, Smith and (asd ‘hesler on campalen fund... tA that series will run split week in Bergen crossed the Omelettes’ goal Une for touchdowns. . stead of seven\ days and Giants wil run away with top of the gravy. to interfere seriously with his ing plans. Sweet succession, Groh and Frisch ~ PATIMA CIGARETTES following year before hostilities out. Yet if ring fighting was ed him real fighting wgs not, and lling Game WHY FANS HOWLED! Yesterday’s baseball game was called at 4.41, Sunset was at 5,33— 52 minutes later. game,” said Billy Evans, American . sue ympire, Who is spectator at waa with etill ght to, the games. pluy, 1 fel Tiled and's deefsion was “The Polo Grounds ts the worst place justifiable The umpire was looking}in the country to officiate at, or play {‘uhead, and i ie had continued |The shadows work havee with the } one or the ot wn yaight have won | players. P fon'e duke, “1 would have done the same thing." ‘The playerMot both the Yantees ang ———__— a the; clubhouse atter the game. They], Says Mattty. Wantedto fight It out “Even Stephen in tbe second game Walle the crowd wag still ehanting Sete At this «pric h AHislr wareery against the xaine betng|°f the World's Series Detween the t this*price where called the players were declaring that] Giants and the Yanks, Not a satisfac- . 2 sere is the ma George Lildebrand thy umpire, pulled! ory ending to the game from the mi nwho cant a und the fang bad g right to be discriminating? which resulted yesterday when ¢ game was called proves. I think ttle study of the game, however, show that both teams deserved a ae —aipineranenchinion tie when the game was called, and *. “Bmpizes”, were Right” save} that the tmpires were wise tn cajjing Let Fatima smokers Billy Bra it whon they did.''—Christy Mathews tell you Liccerr & Mrzxs Tosacco Co, 4 with the frst arrivals of Fratee's col@miai and colored army in the south of France Louie ran away to enlist. He wos taken into the sth Colonial Infantry, being a well-set-up ‘}young man despite his\bare seventeen years. From 1915 to the ond of the war he Saw continuous and deadly fghting- not like 8 many other pugilistic stars, safely tucked away tn a ‘soft’ job, but | held. up tn the fropt line (and it an hi torical fact that the French invaria ble put the colonial corps into th worst sectors). Louis seems to have had exceptional bra since ho war awarded both the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor and demobilize: in+1919 with a special reeommenda- tion a8 regurds his finding future em ployment. However, like so many others, he had to go back to his prev fous work, bottle washing, aad th season Of 1919 found him in the back kitehen of a big hotel at Nice. Here he proved a perseve: soul He had set his heart on getting back into the ring, somehow, and while others of his race around him led wild lyes Louls followed a regime of the strictest order, At last, in January, 1920, his wish was granted. —— O'Mearn May Be Out of fiame a Fortnight. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 6. — Dan Kelley and Newell Neidlinger were tried out for quarterback on the Yale varsity yesterday owing to tho tnjurles to Chgrlie O'Hearn and Joe Beokett, the regular varsity quarters, O'Hearn te at the Yale Infirmary with an injured ten- don, which may keep him out of botn the North Carolina and Iowa semes, while. Beckett hy few, bruises whieh will keep him from serimmaging for the next few days, Kelley played only the frat ve miny utes of the scrimmage, during which time, however, he madesa touchdown on @ short quarterback run. He won Paes outa tole mi Sen. wayed jor fifteen minutes, Neldlinger has no Played quarterback before, He was a left halfback at Andover, and op hb freshman team at Yale, while last year he played for a few minutes in the bhp rage) ame, te probable that he will play for a while tp the game against North Carv- ling tormorrow, 5 The only other toudhdows of the af- temnoon was made by Wight, who took Neidiinger's place at left Rulfback. His touchdown. Was made on u line plunge. The vargity was gotting well on toward the scrub goai line for a third score when Quinn intercepted a forward pass and took the ball to thé centre of the fleld. ‘The varsity etartea with this line-up: Cutler and Hulman, ends; Storrs and Diller, tackles, Crulkahank and Cross. suards; Landis, centre; Kelley; quar terback; Wight, left halfaek; Bench. ight halfback; Mallory, fullback. he substitutes who went jn inchyded Luman and Deaver, ends; Hidden ‘and ireene, tackles; Quaille and Lyfkin, sugrds; Lovejoy and Earle, centers; Neldlinger, quprterback; Warner, left halfback; Haas, right halfback, and nowles, fullback. Paul L. Veeder, 1907 8, wag the only old player at the field outside of the CUSTOM TAILORING of fine vi cL ee in all America— in three great groups 30-3642 Spyeureniar FOR OPENING WOMEN’S MEDAL PLAY __ | #0r# 6f thie now orgunteation \ HANDICAP TOURNEY bent nero promote golf tn’ : FRANKIE GEWARO PUTS: INDIAN RUSSELL. 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