BOXING NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1922, Page 4

BOXING NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A FIGHT BANNED. LONDON, Nov 10. Beckett is bitterly disappointed rt the ban on the light with Siki. He says he will fight anywhere else Siki lilies. A boxing authority says the suspension automatically restores Car- j p< ntier to the championship, and ex- . presses the opinion that a fight b.- . tween Carpentier and Beckett "ill re- • place the Siki light. . . j Bennison, writing of the Suu-Bccl.-ett light, said it was inevitable, apart j from the colour question that if it | had taken place it would have griev- j ously damaged boxing, and probabL, 1 killed professional boxing. Siki by his : conduct in Paris on Wednesday, put j himself outside decent boxing. He j can never re-enter it. The door must be kept closed to him in this and every other country. Tlie “Daily Express” declares ther* miaht have been some reason for bail ning the fight on the grounds of Siki’s conduct on Wednesday, but it was no! for the Home Office to take a stand o: the colour line. ]t is preposterous t< imagine that the Empire’s i-oloureo people will he driven to some exa tec notion of superiority if Siki knocked

out Beckett. Wo deplore this factious old womanish interference. I A motion to disqualify Siki for liie v.as defeated by Bto G. Siki says he will leave t-he.rnig and enlist in the Army. ‘ 1 The Boxing Federation also request- j ed the National Sporting Club and American authorites to prevent Siki lighting. LONDON, Nov 10. ( Commenting on Siki, the “Times Supports tlu? Homo Offioo decision. 1 declared that, boxing is u fine manly snort, but boxing between whites and blacks, filmed and photographed tor delectation of coloured races, may be- ' come a clangorous anarchronism lhe allowing ol such contests on Ei’g.ish 1 soil would ho an act of suicidal folly. ? • | SIKI SUSPENDED. | PARIS, November 9. I Siki lias been suspended for nine • months and dep: iced of tile light- ■ : weight championship.