K.O PUNCH!
Parl. Three
Humiliating defeat for Georgos Carpontior began with a savage punch from "The Fighting Ape.....
Jeers-then the
wild man went berserk
He sprawled, a macabre and sinister figure, face downwards in the gutter. It was four o'clock on a raw December morning and dawn had not yet broken over the Hudson River when James J. Mechan, a New York policeman, found the body lying in a puddle of blood. The man, a massive-shouldered Negro, had been
shot through the middle of his broad back.
In Gaping Hurcugh, the gaudy de Guerre, was to ite check of his jackel were twa
physical and mental anguish ruch 1.9 few xoxers have suffered.
blackened hotes. A few yards away a revolver lay on the Ceserted sidewalk, Two shots had been fred from it.
Patrolman Mechan shrugged. Drunks, deadbeats, dead men to him they were no more than youline business.
IT WAS SIKI
3
2
Fer that defeat, os horilble at it was unexpected, ute into
soul Carpentier's French katiling Siki's mallet ists and enten into his nesh.
ងវ
It was all so inexplicable--or
was it?
Certainly, as the bull sounded for the first round, not one of those fickle thousands, hushed h their
seals, could hove
guessed at the gruesome out- cene of a fight which they all felt would be little more than a
pleasant
work-out for the
champion- fight they were sure Carpentier, with his shim- mering right. could nutsh whenever he liked.
NONCHALANT
-By-
ALAN
HOBY
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1961.
Carpentier, who for all the crazern he had shown at the start might have been looking
at
some ties in a Champs- Elysers shop window, tried belatedly to elineh.
Back-pedalling, sick and tired, he strove to get away. but he
Iacked the speed. He wasn't fit. For "Gorgeous Georges" and ike black-mopped Descamps had made the biz. gest miscalculation of their money-minting partnership. They had underestimated the sable-skinned Sikt; had well- ten him off as easy: a no-risk second-rater.
And now it was too inte. Windmilling across the ring, aims and fisks pumping like black pistons, Siki chopped and clubbed Carpentier's film star features.
MANAGER SOBS
Club complete first round of Hexangular Tournament with unbeaten record
The Hongkong Football Club beat Garrison by 11 points (a goal, a try, and a penalty goal) to six (two penalty goals) at the Club Stadium last night to complete their first round fixtures in the Hexangular Tournament with an unbeaten record.
Last night's game was not a thrilling spectacle of open rugger served up by two sides throwing the ball about in a carefree manner. Rather it was a hard fought battle between two sides who were quite evenly matched and were out to win, but not in such a manner as to make the odd mistake and so allow the other side to gain a decision.
Nevertheless we raw plenty of good, hard
the rugger ond Occasional flash of brillance, from such players as Wilson, Riddle and McTavish.
Both sets of forwards played hard. uncompromising SUB and here the Club eventually won the gene through their pack who played moaniâcently in the second half and were a told base for their eide's fine second half rally.
First to score
Garrison were first to score after about ten minuties of probing attacks by both sides, when MacDonald klek- ed a low penalty which just scraped over the bar from twenty-five yards and near ite touchline on the right This was the direct result of
By “PROP"
and
from the resultant for Club and a' Ano Antst to Dub took the the first part of the Hexangulas twenty five
Toumament, as far as they are lead. A high kick down the centre concerned. way misfielded by MacDonald ment under his own posts. From the Garrison Hing in D.
erium, Hall plekked up and short
launched himself over the line space of time.
Kelly on the Club left wingtitis." Moore converted.
for a good try "between the was endly out of touch. Passes were dropped and the speedy Garrison wingers were not slow to follow the loose ball or the kick ahead.
very
Club exeried more pressure and were awarded a penalty about thirty-five yards - from the Garrison line and at an scule angle. Moore shaved one of the posts with his kick, as he did with another kick Guly minutes later from a allabtly thorter range, bat from ́inuch the same angle. Hagon, and Thompson, with come good breaks from Uneouts. saw the ball taken back into the
11 Lerummage, lefringement which incurred the referee's Club half.
displeasure.
from thirty yards.
Moore missed another penalty-
and Wilson was nearly over from the drop.
cut.
Back came Garrison and Moore used the touchling well to send them back.
Suddenly Wilson took off on a glorious run which carried him past five men before he surged rust MacDonald into the corner from for a lovely try. Moore the touch line was unable to m prove on the score.
Best not enough
With Club once more on the attack, the referee called "no- side" for the end of a very in-
The half-time score WAS six Shortly afterwards Garrison points to nil in favour of Gar-testing game. found themselves on the prison. and they just ceiving end of another decision
about
by the referee directly connect- deserved their lead due to their ed with a lineout as a wing- solid defence.
transgressed against
Smirking, leering, the African, with the belitle crowd incant- ing, "Vive Siki," machine-gun-forward ned punches many of them the off-sido luw. Moore from a over-arm-to the white man's elmitar position to that from face and henst,
In the fourths round, with blood gushing from the cham- pion's mouth and right eye, Descamps was semaphoring like a man demented
In the fifth the tile manuger was sabbing uncontrollably as Carpentier, too proud and 100 ganic to give in, was gashed and smashed until he was a
*. blinded wreck.
which MacDonald had kicked his goal, but at the other end, kicked a fine penalty to level
the ecoce.
'Pep' talk
cheer
Garrison played well in this was just game but their best not good enough, They could (not dominate the game forward, and consequently their threes did not get the chances to score. They were best served by
his
At the interval lgby-Bennelt, the Club skipper, was greeted Riddle, who handled and kicked as he very well, Martindale, who was with a friendly hobbled onto the field to lecture a constant threat on the wing
The effect of, lhis with From the kick-off Garrison his icon.
last, fery dashes, was not seen im- Hayon. Thompson
Maze and pressed hard with a fine break "pep" talk
the
Carrison. Donald.
in Was MacDonald by Riddle which was carried on mediately, for
sharp by McLean and Baillie, with threes alded by some
better form tonight than he har Martindale in close support. passing
and icen for some time, and in any between Baillie this Matindale, and a fine cross-kick ease his form is only relative to Club managed to avert threat, only to give away an by the former, gressed the Club his previous very fine displays off-side decision in the centre line heavily for the first five this season. Ils duel with Moore worked out rather in favour of of the field and about three minutes.
Club full-back, although yards inside their ten-yard line,
Gradually the Club, by dint the MacDonald, with a very good
of good defensive play by the latter was not so successful to kick, took this opportunity
Moore and McTavish, drew with his goal kicking.
For Club side which came Club stormed back to the away from their fine and took
play to the Garrison half."alight" in the second half none attack and with the forwards
Hero Moors with a long kick played better than the halves. beginning to put more fire into
A very well deserved victory was just wide of the posts, back to the their play were The crowd went crazy, Descamps "I died." he said later. screamed again and Again: "le's been tripped."
And then, in the sixth, the torture ended-as abruptly as it
For this was Ninth - avenue and West 41st-street .. this was "Hell's Kitchen,” one of the toughest sections of the eily where tracks, bootleggers. onl the worst scum of the under- world feuded and fought and killed, and wheres anything could happen. Meehan furned the body over and whistled.
Staring up at him was a face he received
thick- Epped face which glistened like ailed ebony squat-nosed, All they had eyes tor-parti simlan face which had been evlarly the women-was Cur- | had begun. plastered over the newspapers | pentier, corning nonchalantly Carpentier, defenceless, away-
from his of two hemispheres.
put his side into the lead. legs like ing like a leat, was floored by For the man whose life was steel springs,
a flogging right. The cnampich ebbing away on
ley! Any time now that terror of lurched into the ropes, feli, and morning of December 15, 1925 a right hand that split-second seemed to trip over Siki's leg. -he died in hospital less than | sleep-producer-would fall like Pandemonium an hour later-was Louis Siki a thunderbolt on poor Siki. Phal, notorious throughout New York as a bell-raiser and cop-hater, And fardous throughout Europe and the U.S. as Battling Biki
that
COLIKT on
The crowd shook with laughter as the cringing Sene- galese cicuched. crab-like, his woolly head almost touching the canvas, during that farcical first round.
Then, with a fresh hullabaloo breaking out, the referee, M. Batting Bik... Who would
Bernstein, flurried by the hyster- have thought, looking down on
the crowd to They booed and clapped and leal demands of himm as lay murdered with groaned as Carpentler, a con- render a verdiet. made the vielcus thoroughness, that only temptuous smile on his lips, astonishing announcement that three years before, Ahls same
telnid to lend. Immediately Sikl had been disqualified. inert hulk had been rasponsible / Siki covered his puckered, A storm of hisses and booing
for one of the biggest upsets in the whole gory schgu af
the ring?
lowering face with his
Inflamed Ring exploded: from the arms, and dropped to one knee,
fans. Sikl supporters swanned "Get up, you quitier," rasped into the ring. With tempers I was on an autumn after the referee.
risin like a tempest, there was noon Sunday, September 24,
For wo tatuads this misera screech of police whistles and 1922--that Battling Siki, the able charade with Sik! Juok a porse of gendarmes stormed primitive wild man hom the ing like some absurd pugilistic into the stadium. West African bush, fought joke, went glamorous Georges Carpentier At last Carpentier, the quick for tho light-heavyweight | heat of anger replacing his con- championship of the world.
tempt as the crowd began the
As the Senegalese--grinning. slow handelap, dropped his bowing, und Waving his long gloves. gorilla arms-capered Into the Exasperated, sick with ring at the Stade Velodrome shame, Buffalo, Poris, he was greeted grimace of disgust to the realive with derisive cheers from the huge crowd.
BLEW KISSES
spectators.
turned with
A
AND THEN IT HAPPENED. Siki, who had fallen to the canvas without a blow being
Still wearing that fixed, in-struck, get up and hit the #rptioting in, Siki went to his grinning, golden god in front corner; but it was noticeable, cr him.
coloured that the
as he waked der the champion A savage, swinging right, 1 appear, challenger looked edgy DI arrehensive.
Then another roar, delirious in its delight, swept the enor-
mous open-air stadium.
starting from behind Sikk ear, caught Carpentier clean on the point of the faw.
It was sheer chance. A lucky punch.
slag-
But the Frenchman Georges Carpentier, the de gered. His knees sagged and Bunal, handsome, matinee idol en American at the ringsido Frenchman, whose name today yelled: "Gee, he's gone gròHKY » occupies
place Come on. Siki." An all-time among the slaved elite of box- “Come on, Siki. ." The ing, was entering the ring.
crowd-the devil that lurks in Unconcerned, suave, smiling- all bir fight mobs licking confident, "Gorgeous! through them like a red flame Geongre," clad In a silk Look up the cry. dressing-gow!L
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bowed to
the
men, and blew kisses at the many exquisitely-gowned wo-
LIKE A MASK But Sikl, his eunken slits of
men who accompanied them. eyes gleaming, his fists crude
Vive Carpentier," they called out rapturously to the national hero who had silftened Eng- Iand's Bombardier Billy Wells and Joe Beckelt in exactly 18 seconds and 73 seconds suspec tively.
"Viva Carpentier" that viva- cious. vointia crowd shouted fair-haired their
clubs of pain, did not need to be told.
Meanwhile, the three judges. after a hurried consultation. averted a lot by reversing the verdict and u cheer rumbled into the sky. Battling Siki was
the winner....
And afterwards? Coorges Carpentier, despite fracturing both hands and the ravasing he received, zecovered.
ONE LONG RIOT
Today, at 68, he is still a strikingly good-looking, altrac- ber- a prosperous live man. owner and restaurateur.
But although he fought again, that Sikl catastrophe killed a great boxer. Carperiler os He was never quite the same.
And the creature they culled, The Fighting Ape? His sub- long. quent career.
rld rlot. He strutted in triumph along the boulevards in barbarously- chat- hued sults. He carried tering monkey on his shoulder and fited a brass-handled pistol in the air.
was
one
He kept a pet Bon on a diver chain and dragged it into cafes, terrifying the patrons. Once he let the lion loose In a Mont- and cleared marire dancehall the place.
He fought the police, thrash- ed walters who refused to As he saw the sudden serve him, pleked quarrels an
and violently weakening, the unbelievable was continuously transformation, both psycho- drunk
A London promoter tried to logical and physical, that ond
Joe Beckett punch had wrought In match him with Georges
the but the Hume Office would not Carpentlet. African did a dervish shuffle, allow Siki to enter the country. Finally, flat broke, Battling And over those Totesque
On Si features fell
of Siki lost the title. ▲ mark
Patrick's Night, March 17, 1023, fury. of mocking out the world Carpenter, his pride singed, amid the pit and bark of guns Was the time of the heavyweight champion, Jack urged on by his wildly waving it Dempsey, In New York a fight manager, Francols Descamps, troubles the Senegalese toat which, although it brought the strode cut in the third round on points to Mike McTigue in Frenchman a fourth round k., to end this indignity, this joke Dublin.
Sikl's sensational but loulish also earned Kirr £50,000.
that had gone suddenly sour.
Soon after- - Yet,^" in. Inss than half o As Siki, all fear lost, rushed reign was over. kur the MpYEKLISO was ta Atros the ring like a bloodwardø, unwanted in Franco, his
piret money squandered,
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at
cavaller who, only the year be-
fore, had come within an ace
farm to healing execration, mad buil, cut flashed Carpened for America where he ho
the sheets: 10, žvern.
lier's camera-fish right —-” and In just, under 25 minutes down went the African with soc-gravitated in the seamiest The Oral Man,” as the thud that could bo heard haunts of HarlemI Americans hadi Jabelled him.all over the arena. was to ho carried inconscious But Siki did not stay down
Writhing, slavering with or
Irom the ring.
Untit that bleak morning Christmas 35 shortly before years ago when he brawled anti He was to be taken, half-mordial madness, he bounced snarled once too often when blinded a human wreck, to a up and flung himself on Car gangsters bullets mowed him darkened room In his luxurious ponilor. It was the frenzy of down and left him, dying and epartment on the Elojes,
alone, in a New York alley.
the jungle.
And there, this dashing ex- Another haymaking right and French Air Force plot, who Carpentier alsoped on one kne⚫ NEXT WEEK – The during the same had work the for, 7 chint of dibena Chung grantent fight of the Idol DENAMENS PRllare: anal" "Grols | Bijdt went 'tricástic,
of Glasgow.
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