1961-01-12 — Page 9

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,

นไทยด

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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