San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18

Stribling a Wonder.
Has Remarkable
Record.
Gets Little Punishment.
Is a Vicious Fighter.
Has Lost Five Decisions.
49, Bv Damon Runyon -
anon Runyon
Copyright. 1925. International Feature
Service, Inc.)

49, By Damon Runyon -
Copyright, 1925. international Feature
Service. Inc.)
The more / consider his record.
the more / am convinced that this
Young Stribling of Georgia, is most
remarkable fellow, as George Gaul
used to say in Seventh Heaven"
Young Stribling will be y years
old on December 20, next. He has
been boxing since 1921, when he was
II, and he had 125 bouts UP to the
close of 1924.
Since then he must have had 1T
least 50 bouts. He has been on two
transforming trips to the Pacific
Coast, and crossing the country he
engaged in one or two bouts every
week. l do not question the state
ment that he has earned $500, 900
since he started his career.
Let us say that by his 21st birth
day Stribling will have had total
of 165 bouts. which is only five more
than he has had to date. These bouts
will average ten rounds. Thus the
stripping Stribling will have engaged
in approximately 1850 rounds Of
fighting at an age when the average
fighter has had less than twenty bat
ties.
am inclined to think that Stri5-
ling's record is almost unparalleled in
the history Of the Manly Art Of
Scrambling Ears. 1t is an astound-
ing thing when you consider ia care
fully. The nearest approach to it
perhaps is the record of Johnny Dun
dee, who began boxing Mt the same
age as Stribling, and at 81 had about
10 bouts behind him.
It seems to me that Stribling does
not get sufficient credit for his abil-
ity. His record proves that he is
great fighter, whatever you may think
Of his style.
He is hard young fellow in the
ring. with considerable viciousncss.
| believe that this is sometimes call
cd "the killer instinct" Stribling is
mild enough youth out of the ring.
but once he finds himself surrounded
by the ropes, he is wicked lad, and
as ~snakey" as they come.
He has strength, which he utilities
with some of the acrobatic tricks of
his vaudeville training with his par
ents. He has a mean punch TO the
body delivered at lose quarters, and
his speed is calculated TO discourage
his opponents.
The past year he seemed to de-
velop good knockout smash against
slow moving opponents.
The times / have seen Stribling
in the ring, he was constantly very
busy. He is quito Snowman, and
he knows how to display his box
ing talent in a manner that impresses
crowd.
He has rubbery legs, and can
bounce around very nimbly. He has
had so much experience that there
is no angle of the game he does not
know. He has also invented few
new ones.
The longer a bout goes the better
he gets. He is rather a slow begin
ner, warming to his work gradually.
| should think the fifteen-round route
denied to him in New York because
Of his age would be exactly suited
to him.
Up to the end of 1924, Young
Striking had won thirty-six bouts
BY knockout, and fifty-three by de-
cision. He got fourteen draws, six
teen were of the no-decision type,
and one was an exhibition.
He lost five decisions in that per-
iod. / do not think he has lost n
decision in 1925-at least not a
referees decision. The men who hold
decisions over him are Battling
Budd, Dick Leonard, Frank Car
bone, Norman Genet, and jimmy
Slattery.
He lost 10 Genet on n foul ut
West Palm Beach, Florida, last year,
and dropped decision in six rounds
10 Slattery in Buffalo. He lost the
other decisions early in his career.
On one or two occasions, notably
when he met Ad Stone in Newark
n year ago. the so-called popular
decision has gone against the Georgia
Rose.
But he hes never been knocked out,
and | do not think that since the
Siattery fight, which was in Febru-
airy, 1924. he has lost the decision
of referee.
In 1924. Young Stribling engaged
in 81 bouts, an average Of over two
Fer month. and while the majority OF
these bouts were with opponents he
easily outclasScd, he fought quite
number of tough chaps.
1t is contention Of his father, the
more or less celebrated PA" Strib-
ling, that Nv. L." doesn't get hit in
his bouts, and that therefore the
amount Of pugilistic labor he puts in
does not affect hiin.
It is conceivable, however, that
Nv. L." DOES get hit now aud then.
He has been on the floor several
times. and only the members of the
more exclusive circle of The Manly
Art Of Scrambling Ears so to the
floor without being hit.
II IS certain that StriblinG shows
surprisingly few marks Of his many
battles, and he has never had TO
take any sustained punishment in the
ring.
Moreover, his father does not per-
nit him to do any considerable train
ing for his ordinary bouts on the
theory that too much training would
tend 10 burn up the young fellows