Louis Mbarick Fall, aka Siki, became the world light heavyweight champion in boxing after champion Georges Carpentier knocked down Siki in the firth round, thereby violating a deal not to injury Siki in exchange for Siki throwing the fight.
Fall was a Senegalese veteran of the French Army from World War One. His boxing career was impressive, and it was suggested at one time that he fight heavyweight champion, Jack Dempsey.
He ultimately lost the title to Irish fighter Mike McTigue in 1925, only to be murdered in New York City the following month. McTigue, oddly enough, would die in poverty and ill health in Queens, New York, in 1966.
Boxing, it might be noted, has few happy endings.
Turkish nationalist seized Ezine, which was in the Allied neutral zone.
The existence of Dorothy Ruth came to light. The one-year-old daughter of Babe Ruth had been sighted with the Babe and his wife Helen. The couple claimed she had been kept from public light, as she had been ill.
In truth, Dorothy's mother was Juanita Jennings, a paramour of Ruth's. The couple adopted Dorothy in an age in which such infidelities were often kept secret and, most likely, that in spite of George Herman Ruth's behavior, their teenage wedding at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Ellicott City had some traction with the couple in spite of Ruth's infidelities. That caught up, however, with Helen in 1925 when the couple separated.. She died in 1929 in a house fire in Waterford Massachusetts, by which time she was living with a Dr. Kinder, DDS, as "Mrs. Kinder".
Ruth would remarry actress and model Clair Hodgson in 1929. She was a widow and the union would last the rest of their lives, with Clair putting lacking structure into Ruth's' personal life.
Dorothy did not know that Juanita, whom she knew as Aunt Nita, was her mother until she was 59. She died in 1989.
The Cable Act was signed into law, allowing American women who married foreign nationals to keep
