Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-21
KID NORFOLK GETS
DECISION over SKI
IN new YORK BOUT

New York, Nov. 20-Kid Norfolk
| Harlem negro, tonight received the
judges decision over Battling Sikh
+, Senegalese conqueror of Georges
| Carpenter, in a slashing spectacular
| fifteen round bout at Madison Square
Garden tonight. Sikh proved a wild
free-swinging battler. but he was
badly punished by Norfolk's relent-
less attack.
Making his American debut, Sikh
proved a game, aggressive fighter,
but he was obviously not in the best
of condition. Norfolk's ruggedness
assimilated most of the Battler's saw
age attacks while the Harlem negro
kept up a steady. whitening on
slaught that frequently had Sikh in
distress.
Sikh. wearing green tights. started
the first round with a spectacular
rush but his blows were wild while
Norfolk landed several stiff jolts to
! the head and body. Sikh drove Nor
folk to the ropes in the second round
with savage attack that stirred the
! crowd to an uproar. Norfolk drew
blood from the Battler's nose but
took a shower of rights and lefts to
the head.
Sikh set fast pace in the third,
rocking Norfolk with two terrific
swings to the jaw. Norfolk's jabs
kept blood flowing from Silks nose.
Norfolk opened a cut over Skis left
eye in the fourth and battered the
SencGalese about the head. Skis
face was q crimson smear as he bell
rang.
Sikh connected with two wild
swings in the fifth that sent Norfolk
| staggering back but during most of
! the round the Kid beat a steady tat
too on his onnonent's head. Norfolk
sent Sikh halfway across the ring in
the sixth but the Battlcr came back
| and exchanged stiff iolts with the
! Kid as the round ended.
Sikh started at a furious pace but
tired rapidly under Norfolk's steady
iabbing and powerful hooks. Under
this whitening fire. blood streamed
from the Battler'S nose and from cuts
on his eyes and lips. He was grog-
gy from the tenth round, a sorrowful
spectacle. but somehow he managed
to weather the storm.
Sikh. whose peculiar ring antics and
aggresjiveness won him the plaudits
OF the crowd, rallied spectacularly at
times in the last few rounds, notably
the 18th and 18th. but these spurts
soon ended and Norfolk appeared
unhurt.
Norfolk's blows in several rounds
seemed low. Twice Sikh protested
and the Kid was warned.
More than $4,000 paid s59,S54 to
witness the fight which was billed
for the negro light heavyweight
championship. Sikh, wearing green
tights and climbing jauntily into the
ring, while he waved to the crowd.
caught the popular fancy. He was
cheered Justify every time he cut
loose with a SenegaleSe war dance"
but these tactics did not bother Nor
folk.
Sikh withstood a battery of rights
and lefts to the head in the seventh.
| He seemed to be weakening under
the punishment but occasionally
flashed furious attack that slowed
up Norfolk. Sikh staggered Norfolk
with two slashing lefts in the eighth,
, once driving the Kid to the ropes.
They battled in rough and tumble
fashion at close quarters.e
Norfolk landed a terrific left at the
start of the ninth and punished Sikh
! with Il left jab. Both slowed up
their pace but the Battler retained
his smile as he went to his corner
Sikh was gro9Sy under a battering
attack to the head in the tenth blood
streaming from cuts on his eye, nose,
and lips. He made few returns to
Norfolk's attack.
Norfolk had Sikh in distress in the
! 18th, flashing the Battler with right
! and left hooks. Sikh stood up game =
ly under the punishment and lunged
| wildly in return but his blows sell
i dom found their mark. Twice Nor
| folks blows seemed low and he was
cautioned. Sikh was battered about
! the ring in the 18th but managed to
| block some of the Kids blows and
; hang on.
Sikh staged savage comeback for
few moments in the 18th round un-
| til checked by a left to the jaw
Most of his punches. however, rat
! tied harmlessly off Norfolk's rugged
jaw. Sikh landed two smashing lefts
in the 14th but took a battery of
| rights and lefts in return.
| Sikh started a wild rush in the
| final round and rocked Norfolk with
| a succession of smashing lefts to the
chin. Both missed with their blows
| and Norfolk rushed Sikh to the ropes,
| battering him about the jaw. Sikh
| tried hard to connect with a wild
swing, but the Kid ducked away, and
| came back with a smash to the
head. Norfolk jolted Sikh on the
chin as the final bell sounded.
Sikh weighed 172 and Norfolk TIA
Eddie Burnbrook, of Camp Hola
bird, Md, army welterweight cham
pion, gained the judges decision
over Harry Galfund, of Brooklyn, in
a 12-round bout, semi-final to the
| Sikh Norfolk match at Madison
| Square Garden. Burnbrook who en-
| tered the ring with a record of 45
knockouts in 81 fights, tried hard to
f1atten Galfund but the latters de-
fensive tactics saved him, although
| he absorbed terrific punishment
Burnbrook weighed 146 and CAL
fund LAG IL.