The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-02
Braucher Under Impression vii.
lie Can Defeat Any Heavy.
weight in World
HAS BEEN CUTTING LOOSE
Recent Victories Over Won Porat
and Scott Give Him Box
ing Spotlight
BY WILLIAM BRAUCHER
(NEA Service Sports Editor

The governor Of North Carolina
may never. have another word to say
to the governor of South Carolina,
but it's barely possible we will be able
to report for you some chatter one of
these days between q couple Of other
southern gentlemen, the mayor of
Atlanta, Ca, and the mayor of Ma
con, in the same state.
Maybe we IRE just fooling, but it is
our idea that some day one of these
fine evenings, the mayor of Atlanta
will say to the mayor Of Macon, well,
well, old sardine, I see where you
have a champion, too"
This would take place don't laugh)
shortly after W. L. young" Stribling
had knocked out Max Schmeling or
somebody for the heavyweight cham
pionship OF the world.
II I had said something like this in
public no longer ago than last sum-
mer, somebody surely would have
stood up and said, Eyes. yes. and now
tell us all about your new idea for
teaching horses to spit" But time
flies. the Brooklyn Robins are at the
top of one Of the leading minor
leagues, and you can't tell the age Of
a dead herring by its teeth. We are
here today and gone tomorrow.
1t Is true that Willie, as they call
him down in his native canebrakes,
has messed up every important
chance he fell heir to. His bouts with
Berlenbach, Loughran, Sharkey and
a few more fellows linger in unfra-
grant memory. OF course the boy al
ways was ready with an alibi-he had
fractured a toenail or dislocatd a
couple Of vertebrae In his tonsils or
something like that.
But lately he has been playing
country cousin to the people Of the
prize ring in a very negative manner.
It has taken him less than three
rounds to knock out Otto Won Porat
and Phil Scott. He beat Scott before
the plaintive Britisher had time to
holler foul. which is some sort of q
record. Even In these bouts there
was something. the matter with. the
Stribling left hand. Perhaps II Pa
and Ma Stribling ever can get the
young man In the ring in perfect ply
steal condition he'll kill somebody.
Strib has fought his way to the top
time and again, only to meet chagrin
and disappointment and to d~isillusion
those who placed faith in him. Only
Is years old. he has had nearly 300
fights, riot all of them the bitterest
sort Of battles, of course, because Pa
liked to send his offspring in against
the soft ones. But 800 fights are not
what you might call a soft Job. Willie
has worked hard.
Let him cut loose" I heard Jack
Dempsey say once of the Georgia
heavyweight, and he would be n of
the hardest men in the world to lick.
He's got one Of the best left hands I
ever saw. And he showed when he
fought Berlenbach he could take it."
What keeps him from cutting
loose? Imagination, nerves, fear?
I've heard from a dozen boxing critics
a dozen different opinions Of Young
Stribling. One excuse offered for
some of his poor showings was that he
was naismanaged. Another was that
he had too much caution. Still an
other was that he has had hard luck.
The fact Is, Young Stribling is a
whale Of a fighter. He has every
qualification Of physique and skill
with which to reach the top. And If
he keeps on cutting loose" I do not
see how. he can fail to win the world
championship.