MIXED BOXING.
BARRED IN ENGLAND. London, November 9. The Home Secretary (Mr W. C. Bridgeman) has notified the promoters of the Beekett-Siki fight that he cannot permit the contest within the United Kingdom. The authorities hold that in contests between men of colour and white men ''he temperaments of the contestants are incompatible, and that, considering that there are a large number of men Of colour in the British Empire, such contests are against the highest national interests unci only tend to arouse passions which it is inadvisable to stimulate. The Home Office relies on the precedent established when the JohnsonWells "fight was contemplated in 1911. Siki's" exuberance of spirits is likely to bring him into trouble. His latest exploit, which, according ro the ''Evening News" correspondent at. Paris, may result in his suspension by the French Boxing Federation, occurred at the conclusion of a fight for the French middleweight championship. When Prunier, in the eleventh round, defeated the holder of the title (Balzac) by a knock-out, Siki immediately jumped into the ring and endeavoured to strike Prunier's manager. The police had to quell the disturbance, and Siki was ejected, amid hooting by the spectators.
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Otaki Mail, 20 November 1922, Page 3
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