Sport: Unbusinesslike

Despite a precipitous descent to the floor following a right to the jaw in the sixth round of his fight with Young Norfolk, New Orleans Negro heavyweight, Battling Siki took the decision.

More entertaining than the fight were the comments of W. O. McGeehan, sporting editor of The New York Herald, on events of the preceding eve-ning. According to McGeehan, Siki strolled into the Baltimore Hotel, Memphis, where Norfolk was sitting with a black girl. Siki advanced to pay his respects. Unhappily, Norfolk, ignorant of French, assumed insult. He stared at Siki with all the enthusiasm of the cold and clammy blackness of a coal mine. Siki started fighting on the spot. McGeehan deplored Siki’s amateur attitude in this unbusinesslike proceeding. Said he: “If Siki goes around the country fighting for nothing, one shudders to think what will become of the great cauliflower industry.”