SIKI’S SORROWS

Evening Star, Issue 19126, 18 December 1925, Page 12

SIKI’S SORROWS

AMERICAN ADVENTURES OF BLACK BATTLER.

Battling Siki is in trouble again. Since ho°arrivcd on American shores ou tho first of September, 1923, the conqueror of Georges Carpenticr has been in trouble. Siki’s various adventures in America aro briefly summed up as follows by an American paper:—

September 1, 1923, immigration officials doubted his desirability in this country, but after a “promise to ho good,” was admitted for one month. He was arrested in October of 1923 for sparring at a negro theatre in Harlem without a license. The case was dismissed upon his ignorance of the law and the fact that no violence was intended. In the same month he was put oh a train near Montreal, Canada, liecause ho threatened to fight the whole train crew. Soon after that ho threatened to sue his manager because the latter, according to him, had taken all his earnings from his fights in New Y ork. _ Upon his non-arrival in Chicago m the latter part of January, 19.4, for a bout, it was found that ho had left New Orleans and left the train at Memphis where ho threw his money to the winds and ended up broke. Door the threat of the police ho calmed down, and when money reached him, went on to the fight- . In Havana, Cuba, m J’obnmry, 1024, while he is reported to have been secton- “ pink elephants ” ho rushed into the street onlv partially chid and created a great disturbance. While in the same city, and only a short time after, the report camo to the United States that he had jumped out the second storey window of his hotel and run down the street ,uT bug. “I am Siki, the great Rattler. Young Cuban lovers of the boxing rescued him from the police. “ When Bob Levy planned to come hack to the States with him in April io9i giki refused to come. Levy t’oW him W would havo nothing more to do with him until he took up training S °on April 28, 1924, ho arrived at New York in the steerage of a vessel and was admitted for a probation period of six months on the strength of Levy’s proving that ho had 3,(XX) dollars in the .bank, ami would not hocome fif public chnr*££o. r a In Omaha, in May 1924. he fibred in an automobile accident and suftored a fractured rib. While recuperating from this damage he bought a monkey for a pot and’ promenaded Broadway with the creature. Such a crowd gathered that ho interfered with traffic and was hauled into court. Ho was released accused of being a bigamist in July. 1924, when lie married a white girl, Miss Olie Werner, in New York. After a trip in Holland two years before he returned with a white woman whom he introduced as his wife. To this union .there is one child. Evidently the objection to feiki in tins respect was over-ruled. , . While in Memphis last December ho was thrown out of a cafe patronised by white persons. Ho was fined fifty dollars for disturbance of fho peaee The “ Singular Sengalese was found stabbed in the face on a sidewalk in Now York’s “ Heß’s Kitchen late in July. He was taken to a hospital and sewed up.. Two days latqi bo fled from the institution in Jus his recent fight with Joe Silvani ho was ordered out of the ring in the eighth round for stalling, and for this offence was suspended by the New York and Now Jersey State Boxing Commissions, an action which autornatically suspends him from hoxmg in South America and I ranee, which countries havo agreements with New Y< Asi'de from these events, Utile or nothing lias happened to the black battler to disturb his prosaic existence.