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Show 00 ijjjjijjj Fill REMOVE ' I CROWN OF SIKI I Tom Gibbons Would Fight ; Negro in Place of Joe Beckett PARIS. Nov. 10. (By Tho Assoclat-ed Assoclat-ed Press.) "Battling" Slki, aspirant for the crown that sits upon Jack iH Dcmpsey's head, today was standing with reluctant feet where tho chain- iH pious and has-beens meet H Thursday night the French boxing federation snatched away his title of 'light heavyweight champion of j France, and suspended him from practicing his business in France for a period of nine months. Only a few-hours few-hours before the black conqueror of Georges Carpc-ntler had stumbled Into another block of hard luck, the Brit-lsh Brit-lsh homo office forbidding his sched-tiled sched-tiled fight with Jo Beckett to tak" place on British soil. iH A POISING PASSIONS The action by the English authorl- 11 ties was taken because Slki is a negro and Beckett Is white, and it was deemed that "all sorts of passions would be aroused" If they met In th-ring th-ring But tho ban tho French have put on Slki was caused by an over- thought. Wednesday nlghf, when he Iwas acting as a second for Ercolo d" I Balzac, he Jumped to tho ring when his man was knocked out and struck 'the manager of the victorious battler, Maurice Prunler. j The taxing federation has now LSked tho international federation to j deprive the Senegalese fighter of bis title of worlds light heavy-weight champion, which he piucked from the handsome brow of Georges Carpen Under the Federation's ruling Thursday Thurs-day night, Sikl. during the next nine months, cannot engage In a boxing match, or act as manager or a second 'in any bouts organized under the rules I of the federation. GIBBONS W ANTS BOUT. CHICAGO. Nov. 10. Tommy Otb-bona, Otb-bona, St Paul heavyweight through h: man 0 r. 1 'ddai Ka no has asked for a chanco to take tho place of Battling Bat-tling Slki against Joe Beckett, Eng-Llsh Eng-Llsh heavyweight. When hi British homo office drew the . oh. i- line, Kane cabled Major Wll- . I ion, promoter of tho proposed match , Mm to substitute Gibbons for Slki. it j (tett match was schedule sched-ule .1 tor iM-cember 7 In London and lj' I was burred at the same time tho 1 rench boxing commission suspended Blkl t"r nine months and took away his crown of light-heavyweight cham pton because of his conduct at the Prunler-Balsaz fight, when he struck Prunier's manager. ; PH |