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Show SIKI WANTS BOUT WITH CARPENTIER PARIS. July S "Battling" Slkl the French colored champion boxer, whom Carpentler will be forced to meet if 81-1 ki's manager, Heller, makes good his plans Served with the Senegalese riflemen ri-flemen during the war Having now-defeated now-defeated the champions of France Qermany. Belgium and Holland, Siki Is now entitled to a bout with Carpentler. Car-pentler. his manager claims. The Senegalese thirty, with whom Slkl fought man battles, were con-, aldered among the bet shock troops but had to be held under sternest discipline dis-cipline and they learned to look up I to their white officers as dcml gods. I Slkl looks upon Heller as he did upon j the captain of his company, and Is naiiv to execute any order blindly. During his recent fight with Nilles the French champion, his manager, fear'ng thai Nilles' wicked right punch might damage his man. to'd Siki to be 'careful. SIkI obeyed 90 well that during dur-ing the early rounds the spectators wondered why ihe black man showed no aggressiveness, At the end of the third round, Helier said to his protege: pro-tege: ' Now yon ro in and lick the tar out of this man!'" I Sikfa hig eyes opened wide In surprise, sur-prise, "Von want me lick Im good?" ' he Inquired "I hough you no want mo bur' htm you watch Siki'" From th'a' moment on to the l5ih round, he hammered Nilles to his heart's eoateni |