BOXING.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17610, 13 November 1922, Page 4

BOXING.

BRITISH BAN ON SIKI. HOME SECEETABY'S ACTION. (By Cable—Puss (Australian and N.Z. C»6J» A»soci LOiNDOS, Kovcmber 10Tho Home Secretary a promoters of the ijecnett-siki iiglit I could not permit tue contest wx •Unned hingaoiu is being widely di i Tho Homo secretary prohibited Uio as j as the authorities took the; view tb f I contests between men of oolour and men, the temperaments ol the ooutee were incompatiixe and, cons l _ there were a large number of men of in the British limplre, euch .o° nte6 J® *"l[ against tho highest national interes , tended to rouse passions which it w» advisable to stimulaw. 'lho Home Office lied on ths precedent established whoii Johnaon-Wella fight was contemplated xn 19 Joo Beckett is bitterly the ban of his fight with Siku He 7® that he will fight anywhere else Sik* likes. A boxing autliority says that the BUB Pf aion of Siki by tho French Boxing Federation automatically restores Carpentier to championship. Ho expresses tie t a fight between Carpentier and ikckett ww 'replace the Siki fight. Mr Benr.i3on, writing in, the 'Dai.y re'egraph," says:—"Tho vetoing of the Si »• Beckett fight was inevitable, a.;art ir:in tne oolour question. If it had taken p.ace l would have grievously damaged boxing, and probably would havs killed professional boxing. Siki, by hi 3 conduct in Paris on Wednesday, when ho into the tins and attempted to assault truner's manager, P ut himself outside d-ecent boxing, and ho can never re-cntei' it. The door must bo kept closed to him in this and every other counj The "Daily Express" declarea_ that there might have been some reason ior banning i the fight on the ground of Siki's conduct on. I Wednesday, but it was not lor the iiom* I Oiiice to take its stand on tiie colourlmeIt wag preposterous to imagine that tho | Empire's coloured people would bs driven : to eomo exalted notion cf their superiority if Siki knocked out Beckett. "'We deplore ' tliis fractious and old-womanish interferj ence." I "The Times" supports tho Homo Office decision, declaring that boxing is a fir»e manly sport, but that boxing between whites and blacks which was filmed and photographed for the delectation of coloured racc3, may fceooimo dangerous. To allow such contests to take plaoe 071 English eoil would be an aot of suicidal folly. PUNISHED BY FRENCH FEDERATION. PARIS, November 10. A motion at the motting of the French Boxing Federation to disquallf/ Siki for life was defeated by eight votes to six. He was for nine months and deprived of the 1 " light-h=avy-weight cbampionehip. Siki- says that ho will leave the ring and enlist in the Army. ; The French Boxing Federation has requested tlie National Sporting Club and the American authorities to prevent Siki fighting in England and America. '