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Show LEOPARDS SLIGHT FAVORITES OVER GRANITE IN SATURDAY'S CONTEST SENEGAL BOXER LATEST FIGHT SENSP Norfolk Can Save Fans Barrels of Dough If He Can Beat Siki By Robert Edgren ItaUllnn Blkl l tho lutfM rtr wn.-tlon. wn.-tlon. LikB 1'ancho VUI from th I'till-lnpln. I'till-lnpln. who r.orntly temped Johnny Buff Rn4 htrim. Amorlcjiii flyweight . rh.mpion. h h brought litw blood lnlo ' ''Siki a Srnrtatf' He -am from Brneil.l. In Krench WV.t Afrleu. Hl home ma bout UK) nill- north of the fo.l mm 1 mUi.im: W tl'" " point of the Afnenn ciitn,.nl. It. kin la blink, for hl nc.t..i hiiie baked for unknown ihnuaaiida of years undor the hot African un. When fuchtlnr. he leupa like a )op-rd )op-rd th frenchmen ay. He rrourhe low, and got Id and out In bounda. cat-like cat-like Hm 1nnre all atandard boln m"th-oda. m"th-oda. H.ln a child of th Jiinnie onlv recently Imroduced to tho bright li:nt or 1-arla. h haa been etiJoyli'K a wonderful wonder-ful time. Kven while tralnln hard for th Carpentler fight, boili.g thrre houra a day, ha pent every evening In l'arla reaorn. Kefora he met Oarpentler. he never did any real tralnln. Hut ha haan t much of a record. He knocked out one or two Fngllah boaera of little claB. won a fifteen-round dtclalon over Vr-eel Vr-eel Nllle In France, and outpointed Journee, the elongated Frenchman who acted a punching bag for Citrpenller a year ago and who waa knocked out easily eas-ily by Charlla Welner. ahowlng no fighting fight-ing ability at all. Klkl la a 171-pound man. nf averar' height, built omethln on the line, of Joa Walcott. Hla anna are very thick. Ilk Jack Johnaon'a. and ao long that Ma normoua handa hang down rtear hla kneea Hie neck la abort and thick. When h ! boning hla chin rel or i hla cheat. A low collar nearly cuta hi head offf. HOT DAWOI In atreet coatume Slkl the Senrgaleae will t a new dnrktown faahlon when he cornea to America, lie wear a P-arl Irray aoft hat. a blue ault llH white itrlp.. cut very tight around th arma and ahouldera. and buttoned In ao cloae y around hla lower rlba that th. ktr flop. H. alway. appear In winte allk iloVet, tianUlg a gulrt heaiUd f""-h''"d fl. tnt ar cuffed well abov. hla ehoe-tvm ehoe-tvm Hit Tv.at la cut low to xpo a ?nn?Carn!ght. "IV. ahowed no kUI to match that of the f lying "h-tnan. "h-tnan. but he had plenty of .p.ed. KnjcW down two or three timea, h took hl count and lumped up a freah , at the tart. Htllf. he waa a punching mat for rentier until he ' h chin farpent er w daied. and the i BenegaleaeVquloa to tak advantage. Sim any rat anrl "eat h m down without waatlng much time. Sikl haa plenty of confidence Fefor th flrht h predicted that h would ink (ieorgea out In two or thre. round. InT that h. d challenge Jack Itii.py St to glT, him a batll. for th. world heavyweight till. ,. . According to all account. S ki h i a clean, fair fighter, tnleaa l'arla get him. h may mak a lot more of fighting fight-ing hletorv. But what rhanc haa a poor Sngala. mad .uddenly famoua oy knocking out null a Hiuj nero aa Carpentler. In ParlaT NORFOLK MAY SAV MONEY. - It ! propoad to match Sikl agalnat Kid Norfolk In thi country. Hla ago Norfolk wa a flrat claaa fighter and afmoat claaaed with Bm ljngford among men of hi color. But Norfolk h don HttU fighting worthy of'mentlon lnc lia. Ho waa hopeleaaly outclaaaed when he met w lll and hardly mad an attempt to fight. Apparently the onlv reaaon for muton-Ing muton-Ing Sikl agalnat Norfolk la to booat Hlkl a tocTi for a champlonahlp conteat. for If (ilkl haa any real claaa at all. he will knock th old timer out Ima coupl of round. Htlll. It la not entirely Illogical to put Fikl on with Norfolk lor. a flrat bout In thla country. . If Norfoflk can knock out the fienrga-Vrae fienrga-Vrae champion. It will aav fight fana cy-ral cy-ral barrel of money that might be paid to ae Sikl flatten In a punch, by lleinp-y, lleinp-y, or even by W llla. 1 have been watching Harry Wllla In action lately, trying lo figure out whether wheth-er h ha gone back a million mile aa a fighter or la atalllng along lo give llempaev and hla frlencla that Imprea-alon. Imprea-alon. Wllla howed absolutely nothing In hi recent fight with clem Jonnaon. who wa In th ring merely aa a patient pa-tient cr!flc. For eleven round Wllla made awful facea at Johnaon went at bun In awe Inanlrtng lungea. awitng hla long arma In blow that looked fit to kno.k down a ftoua. and accomnllahed nothing until the much emaller darkev waa tired out from having o much weight hurled upon him. WILLS' PUNCHES LACK SNAP. Will ctoaed lem"a left eye entirely In the fourth round and In aplt of that could not flntah him. Jonnaon waa only a punch receiver. Once. In the aeventh round, he did paate Wllla heartily In the r1t with one punch, and Wllla turned hla hack and afdled to the ronea, atiparentlv In dtMrea. If Wllla la no better than ha looked uratnat Johnson, old Ham ljuigfnrd. who haa knocked the M fellow out twice, rould turn the trick again anv evening If he had only 59 per cent of his old flrMIng oower. Wllla showed none of the rmc and amoothneaa he had thre or four year go. Ilia punches were heavy, but thev 'tacked the anan that glvea a h'ow kno.-k- otlt forcea. He plaved to the gle-v. making facea, looking fierce. oten!a-tloualv oten!a-tloualv throwing hla arma overhead while breaking from clinch, and pulling hla r-anda a vard behind hla back In etart-Ing etart-Ing punches. I uaed to aay that Wllla waa a oulet. modeat fighter. The deacrlp-tlon deacrlp-tlon no lonrer fit. I aaw old Jack Jonnaon watching Wllla. Jottneon wor a mll which ahowcl every rolden toolh In Ma bead. He meet hav been thinking of how he co-Md have handled Wll In Ma prime. Funnv thine about all tV la that tH . hoalng eommleelon. week after w-ek. le's Win boa a'l fhee unknown and hpe-lewaly hpe-lewaly Ineapahl co'ored "flrhfera" from out of the war place, wlillr It bara flempaey from flahtlnr men Who ere t leaat much heller nv Of Wilt.' vldlrr. A th commlaalon c!aa Will with nemnvey,. It position la bard to understand. |