WAS IT A "FRAME UP"?

Evening Star, Issue 18144, 7 December 1922, Page 4

WAS IT A "FRAME UP"?

THE SIKI-CARPEHTIER FIGHT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright* PARIS, December 5. M. Daignc, in protesting to the deputies against tho disqualification of jSdki, alleged that it was arranged prior to the match a,gainst Carpontier that Siki should go down in tho fourth round. Siki consented, because he was told he would get plenty of money for little training, ini the second round, hearing the crowd cheer Carpeutier, Siki suddenly realised that ha was the better man, and decided to go in and win, despite his manager’s warning in regard to his arrangement. The Boxing! Federation threatens to prosecute M. Daigne unless he can substantiate hia accusation.—A. and N.Z. Cable. DENIAL OF THE ALLEGATION. PARIS, December 6. ■Carpontier, interviewed, »aid: "Siki must have been drunk when ho made tho allegations. I was out to beat him. Tha idea of any kind of ‘frame-up’ is ridiculous." —A. and N.Z. Cable. Bermison, one of the judges of tho Carpentier-Siki boxing match, writing to tho ‘Daily Telegraph,’ says; “ Siki’s new allegation is on all fours with his conduct since the match. I do not believe that either Carpeutier or Descamps would make such prior arrangements. Ido know, that Oarpeatier, knowing that Siki was only a freakish wild man, did not train .■seriously. After the first round I felt that if Carpeutier had taken himself seriously lie could have won in record time. The difference between the men. was so great that everyone tittered, and with those who shouted ‘ fraud,’ owing to the inequality between the men, 1 agreed. Car[tenticr has since told mo that ho felt that if he had done tho proper thing and knocked out the nigger immediately there would have been a riot on a large scale. Carpeutier therefore toyed with Siki until ho received a clip on the jaw, from which ho never recovered. , That is the whole story of the light. As I raid before, Siki is an insufferable nigger. He is a second Jack Johnson in every particular. There is no place, for him in any ring.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. SIKI .STICKS TO HIS STORY. PARIS, December 5. (Received December 7, at 8.15 a.m.) Siki. in an interview published by ‘Eclair,’ alleged that it to arranged before the contest in September that Car* pentier should defeat 'him. He entered the ring with the intention of dropping in the fourth round, as instructed, but waa ashamed when, on his knees before thou* sands of spectators; therefore be got up and hit the Frenchman. A DAMAGING ASSERTION. PARIS, December 6. (Received December 7, at 10.30 a.m.) The ‘ Petit Parisien ’ alleges that M. Daigne possesses proof that the result of tho Siki-Carpenitier fight was prearranged. —A. and' N.Z. Cable.