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Show D OWNING IS 1 v FIGHT DOPE By Hardy K Doxyning, BATTLING SIKI. the Senegalese world's light-heavy weight champion cham-pion has only worn his crown a couple cou-ple of months and finds it snatched from lils kinky head by the governing govern-ing body of France and likewise finds himself burred from making a living at his profession In practically the I only places where it is possible to cap- Itallzc his newly won honors (Trance I England and New York, which will probably be followed by other Am-I Am-I erican cities. Slkt has been suspended in Franco I and the light-heavyweight crown tak-t tak-t en away from him. because he so far forgot himself and his position in the boxing game as to strike- the manager j of anotlv r boxer because the latter! protege had beaten a boxer whom Slkl 1 was seconding. ( I While the suspension of nine months may seem a little severe, and the taking tak-ing away of his light-heavyweight crows thrown In for good measure, the latter course as practlcall com-pulsory com-pulsory as the governing body of France insists that a champion must ( defend his title every six months, so with & nine months' suspension hang- 1 Ing over his head, the light-heavy- weight championship became vacant automatically. Sikl's suspension at this time will probably save tho boxing game from having a bigger splotch smeared over it for It will probably mean his finish fin-ish as a big box office attraction and from the manner In which he has behaved be-haved ever since ho got into the limelight lime-light he was sure to sooner or later pull something that would have hurt the boxing game seriously, especially-hid especially-hid he decided to come over to this side of the pond. Jack Johnson In his palmiest days, never dreamed of doing do-ing the things that Slkl has been getting get-ting away with, at least doing them and boasting about it. and if 1 am not mistaken, by the time his suspension has expired, he will hae stepped so fast that ho will never get back to the top of the heap again, and he will probably never be heard of again. RECOGNIZE SUSPENSION While the suspension of Slkl In j France would undoubtedly be recognized recog-nized in England, and Chairman Mul-doOD Mul-doOD of the New York boxing commission com-mission has announced that it will be upheld in the state of New York. Which will bar him from tho big mon-ey mon-ey and the ret of tho states, where boxing commissions are in force, will undoubtedly follow in line for they arc all afraid of what would happen to the game If Slkl did come over here. The English boxing commission found a reason of thir own to bar him from England by drawing the color line, something that has. never been considered across the pond before, be-fore, bo there must be some other reason rea-son behind it, probably they -were afraid that Slkl mlxht beat Joe Beckett Beck-ett In their proposed match and it's no cinch that ho would, although It looks Uko a toes up between them, and the humiliation 'f having B red skln-ned skln-ned man heavyweight champion of England, was probably more than they could endure, for they have been humiliated hu-miliated enough by having their champions cham-pions knocked over by the Americana It may have been this reason or it might have been that the actions of Sikl were really so bad that they were reallv afraid of what it might do to tho boxing game over there which has Just got going again through Joe Beckett's recent win over Frank Mor-an. Mor-an. and the fact that he is being touted tout-ed as a possible contender for Jack fiempsey's title and If tho latter Is the rea&on, it Just goes to show what might happen over here, where race prejudice i3 no strong This Is the first timo In the history of the boxing game that a colored man has ever been barred bar-red across the pond, and there must he some good reasons. BOOSTING GIBBONS The barring of Sikl in England may be the means of boosting Tommy Gibbons Gib-bons Into a match with Jack Demp-scy. Demp-scy. eventually as he has cabled an offer to England to take Sikl's place against Beckett and as the winner of the Bockett-BlkJ match would probab-lv probab-lv haVS been in line for a match with Dcmpsey. there should be a good chanc fr Tommy for he should beat Beckett deoislvely, for Beckett had his troubles beating poor old Frank M01-an. M01-an. who Is nothing but a pugilistic .reito. and Gibbons could whip a rtnr- : f ull of Morans in ono night at tho present time. Carpentler got a crack at Dempsey I through his defeat of Beckett, so xhy j not Dempsey, especially in view of 'the fact tlut Gibbons has proved him-1 him-1 self: the best white man of his weight ' in the country, with the exception of Harry Greb, who seems to be a "Jinks" for Tommy, as he has never been able to beat hlrn. although considerably larger, but it Seems like Greb's Stylo oj milling has Tommy baffled. Gibbons can no doubt whip a lot of big men whom Greb couldn't begin to bat and might give Dempsey some kind of a battle, while Greb's size makes a match with Dempsey out of the question. MY1 RS Bl SI Spug Myers, the sensational Poca-tello Poca-tello junior welterweight is going to be a busy battler from now on as ho has decided. or rather his manager. Frank v atson and nis trainer. Pea McLaughlin, that he has attained the age now where he needs plenty of bouts and the more he gets the faster he will Improve, and they are now open to send hlin in as often as suitable suit-able opponents and satisfactory financial fi-nancial arrangements are offered. His next bout will be a 12-round bout in Pocatello on Ncvember 15, j when ho meets Joe Adams, of Boston, j claimant of the welterweight chair.-1 plonshlp of the Pacific coast, who lues ' met some mighty good boys on tho coast and throughout the northwest, , and mlddlewest. Adams has agreej to make a hun- ' dred and forty pounds for Myers and claims lie can make It without hurting his chances, although he has been fighting boys up to the middleweight limit, having recently fought P tor Boss, who beat Ed Shepard,, the local , middleweight last summer, so It would appear that Spug Myers is going to have a real battle on his hands Myers showed tho Salt LaKe fans a lot of real stuff when he beat Benny Ben-ny Garcia a week ago. and it looks us though he was headed for the top and his advisors are using mighty good Judgment in sending hlrn through I a good hard season's campaigning around here, and if he keeps on delivering deliv-ering the goods, by next season, he will be ready for the big show and don't be surprised of he makes the best of them step thcr best to beat htm. (Bv arrangement with tne Salt Lake Telegram ) |