San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-13
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Stribling's Fortune.
Mas Made Half Million.
A Theme for Thought.
Big Chance for Junior.
Might Be Ungrateful.
: BY Damon Runyon

As the proud parent of a male
child, I find hope and inspiration in
the financial achievements of another
proud parent through the medium Of
his offspring.
I refer to W. L. Stribling, more
Familiarity, and affectionately known
as PA" father Of young Stribling,
the celebrated Georgia school boy. /
note in the public prints that Young
Stribling has made in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000 since he began his
boxing career.
As Young Stribling has not yet at
tanned his majority, his parent, W.
j.. Stribling, is his guardian, as well
as his manager, and naturally takes
charge of the money earned by his
precocious son. l am informed that
w. l.. "Pa" Stribling has judicious-
ly Invested most of the money in
Georgia and Florida real estate.
Since reading of this matter, I
have commenced to view Junior Run
Won with something more than. casual
interest. / have commenced to con-
slider his potentialities as source Of
comfort and ease to me in my declin-
ing middle age.
/ have never highly esteemed the
Manly Art of Self Defense as a call
ing for young men because Of the
prevalence of scrambled ears among
its followers.
However. my recollection of W. T..
"Pa" Stribling is that he has no
scrambled ears. and Three-Fingercd
Jack Dougherty, manager of Larry
Estridge. the negro middlewcigAt
champion, assures me that you can
not get scrambled ears sponging those
boxers off. Mr.. Dougherty is an
authority on this point, as he has
been sponging boxers off for 40
years, and both his ears remain quite
unscrambled.
/ find myself wishing that Junior.
at Z. were n little sturdier, that l
might begin developing his potentiali-
ties at once. Young Stribling was
boxing at II. The idea. of waiting
ten years to get started on my
100000 appalls me.
OF course, / might turn for ex-
ample to another noted parent in an
other field of endeavor. / might turn
10 John Coogan, father of Jackie
Coogan, a son who was a going con-
Germ and a source of income tax to
the government at a much earlier age
than Young Stribling.
I fear, however, that Junior has
no histrionic possibilities of the time.
He wears his hair closely shingled,
and cannot hold still long enough for
even a movie picture camera to catch
him.
/ believe he has natural foptwork
as a basis for his education toward
my ease and comfort. 1 once took
after him with bed slat to impress
upon him the lesson of the moment,
but he easily eluded my leads, out
footing me around and under the
dining room table.
I have watched closely for symp-
toms of the killer" instinct in him,
which I hold are necessary to a real
fighter and my heart beat high with
hope one day when he caught his
first fish, n piscatorial specimen an
inch or so in length.
/ looked for Junior to instantly
strange the creature, thus demon
strating n ferocious disposition, like
Stanley Ketchcl's or Jack Dempsey's.
Instead he put the fish in a pail
and tried to keep it alive by feeding
it bread and butter, and sailed al
monds, and cake.
i was somewhat depressed by this
incident until / remembered that
young Stribling is not extra fierce
in the ring. And, without being any
too fierce, Young Stribling has
gathered in that 100000, and is
today the greatest money-getter IN
the business.
He has had about 200 battles
since he started out five years ago,
and he is not yet twenty-One. On
his recent journey to the Pacific
Coast. in a motor van that Mr.. w.
J.. Spa Stribling had built to or
der, the Georgia Schoolboy barn
stormcd the western colony, boxing
at least once n week.
He got anywhere from $1,000 to
$1,000 every appearance. l know he
got the latter sum for boxing jim
nv Delaney, of st. Paul, in Los
Angeles not long ago. 1t is quite con-
ceivable that Young Stribling will
make n million dollars or more out
of boxing before he retires.
But there are other young boxers
managed by their parents who are
mot dining so vol. TOny Marullo. of