BOXING.
SIKI'S IRISH FIGHT.
(BT CABLE—PBBSS ABSOCimOH—COFTOIOHT.) (AVSTBAIiAN AHD K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) PARIS, February 2G. Siki goes on Wednesday to Ireland where he will train in a seashore camp for a fight with Hike McTigue in Dublin on March 17th. BANTAM-WEIGHT TITLE. LAKE BEATS HARBISON. (Received February 27th, 7.25 p.m.) LOKDOtf, February 26. At the JTationol Sporting Club, "Bugler" Lake easily outpointed Tommy Harrison for the bantam .veight championship. The fight was for a club purse of £7OO and the new Lonsdale belt. Lako is a youngster of twenty-two and has only boxed for four years, during which time he has engaged is fifty-seven contests and been defeated throe times.
Lake was very quick and elusive in the early rounds though Harrison occasionally got in a hard right which steadied Lake. Later Lake showed marked superiority to .Harrison, who fell to a left to the chin in the thirteenth round, but was up quickly. Harrison tried all he could to 6ecure a knockout, but Lake fought Harrison away in fine style, showing manifest superiority.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17700, 28 February 1923, Page 4
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