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Show weeks no, w.i.s taken to her hu.s-h;i hu.s-h;i nil's room niul stayed until the end. They have two other children. HURTS FATAL TO STRIBLING MACON, Git., Oct. 3 Ul!i-W. L. (Young) Stribling, colorful heavyweight heavy-weight boxer who at one lime was near the top of his class, died today. to-day. He succumbed to injuries received re-ceived in a motor car accident Sunday after a courageous fight to live. Stribling was 2S years old, but had engaged in more than 300 ring battles. He reached his peak in 1931 when be fought Max Sen moling, mol-ing, then heavyweight champion, for the title. lie lust on a t eh- nical knockout. ( Stribling was returning to Macon from the Idle Hour Golf club on his moloicycle Sunday. 11. V. John- son, a motorist, sweived his car to avoid a codisjon with another nia-i nia-i chine, just as Stribling was altcmpt-i altcmpt-i ing to pass. Stribling was side- swiped and the fender of Johnson's car almost severed his left foot at the ankle. At Macon hospital the foot was amputated. His left leg was found to be mangled and his pelvis broken. brok-en. At first physicians thought he had ;in even chance to survive, but last night he began sinking rapidly. His wife, Clara, still confined in the same hospital where she gave birth to a son less than two |