Sport: Boxing

Pugilistic gentlemen the country over spent a lively week. Those whose hands were not busy administering cut lips and swollen ears, gesticulated in airy explanation, signed contracts, punched bags and sparring partners.

At Buffalo, hulking Homer Smith, Kalamazoo heavyweight, spent an evening knocking down Battling Siki, polygamous Sengalese. Next day, Siki's left eye was such a different color from the rest of his face, and of such an unusual shape, that he repaired to the New York Boxing Commission and postponed his en counter with Jock McDonald, sched uled for four days later....

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