SIKI IN TROUBLE AGAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18247, 14 November 1922, Page 7

SIKI IN TROUBLE AGAIN.

ARRESTED ON ARMISTICE DAY

UNIFORM ILLEGALLY WORN,

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. CRecd. 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, Nov. 12.

A message from Paris slates that Battling Siki, celebrating Armistice Day, donned the uniform of a Senegalese sharpshooter, and promenaded the boulevards. The police finally locked him up on a charge of illegally wearing a uniform. Interviewed the previous day, Siki said he was unable to explain why he attacked Prunier, who knocked out Balzac, of whom he was very fond; When he saw Balzac knocked out he was so mad that he jumped into the ring to'protest, and coming across Prunier and Qluny, the letter's manager, he went for them.

M. Hellers, Siki's manager, states that he tried his best to teach Siki the element tary principles of civilisation, but failed. "I made Siki a boxer," he said, " but it is impossible to make him a gentleman." It is reported that Siki intends to give up boxing and sell blacking for a living. Lord Lonsdale strongly supports the Home Secretary's action in banning the Siki-Beckett fight, declaring that intercolour contests are detrimental to racial feeling. Mr. Eugene Corn characterised the ban as " utter nonsense. I don't know what wo are coming to," he said.