Show y Southland Backs Stribling to Limit t Boxer Highly I 11 Respected in Home lonie Town 1 t t Pas Pa's Boy Popular in Macon Society Editors Editor's note nole Jimmy Jones as n. n sports sportswriter writer In Young Stribling's home borne town Is Intimately acquainted with one of the men who ho ho Is 13 to fight for the heavyweight hn M championship cham of or the thi world orld at t Cleveland Jul July 3 3 In this the first of two tOlO articles on the home life JIll and personality of tho the champion champlon Jones Jonca reveals reveal some traits trails of th the challenger hitherto unpublished and find tells how the south backs Us s man to win In the title By Dy Jimmy Jones MACON Ga June 9 Only NEA two triumphal parades for the home town boy who made good have been staged on th the i Y magnolia magnolia- Ii lined n c d A streets of old t Ma-t 1 con Both of them have been in honor of Willie p And now Macou Macon is petting getting ready for a J third tF t. t In the land where ir 4 1 the peaches arc f ift beginning t just i r ripen and the negroeS ne- ne t groeS groc's arc chopping J the grass from around the young watermelon vines vines there is a new nc nci i 1 topic of con conversa versa ij Uon this year It IL Itis Stribling is of and for win Stribling-win win or lose lose lose- all alJ the way The south has been wrong on cotton cotton cot cot- ton on wars and not a few Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic presidential candidates It has been wrong on Stribling several times when he came up loser But it is all for Stribling this time time all all the tho wa way WILL WAGER ANYTHING In Georgia the sky I ii h the tile limit when Vohen the Crackers start wagering on Strib Cotton livestock whatever they have anti and can get down For In ill Georgia the Stribling family is an institution Stribling Is no mere beak l b buster ter to lo the tile people of his home state he he Is a champion of ot the sta state of Georgia a pugilistic Sir Galahad In Macon Youn Young Stribling holds an equal position of respect and and anc deference with the mayor maor and the city's patriarchs He rates well in ill society He is a thirty second second degree Mason and Shriner and a member of ol the local Kiwanis club He and his wife a former Macon society girl take prominent parts In all local af affairs affairs af- af fairs and Stribling donates trophy cups to local athletic t teams ams He Hc officiates at football panics games pla plays 5 basketball and baseball and acts as ent entertainer at fashion shows When he returned from Europe after alter knocking out Phil Scott he gave the gloves he ho used to n a Macon boy who was recovering from diphtheria ONE OF THE TIIE Though no one mal makes fishes s much of a n fuss over Stribling since alisce he is a fa familiar fa- fa a- a figure on the streets he is Immensely immensely immensely Im im- im- im popular He usually appears appearson on the tile streets bareheaded and in shirt sleeves his ills collar open By nature he lIe is a trifle bashful but he lie Is 15 likable and makes himself at home in iii any company Stribling is an around all-around sports sports- man When the original New York Celtics came to Geor Georgia in Stribling substituted ted for one of the players without gumming up the professionals professionals' profession profession- als' als and made four tour goals coals besides He took up golf gol and won a trophy in a sands green tournament He Is a licensed airplane pilot and anda a u lieutenant lieutenant lieuten lIeuten- ant in the army at air reserves He al alMS always al- al ways MS has had a yearning for speed and anti after tiring of motorcycles and automobiles purchased a motor boat FLIES AWAY TO HUNT He lIe enjoys a a. day in the fields with the bird dogs Last winter he went all the way to Charleston S. S C. C for tor fora tora a wild turkey hunt and came back backwith backwith backwith with a prize gobbler |