| Show SCHILLING PROVES PROVE'S GENUINE CHAMPION IN VICTORY OVER STRIBLING L r e L t. 0 I CARNERA NEXT OPPONENT ON SCHEDULE FOR KING BOUT BOOKED FOR SEPT 17 German Stages Determined Fight to Win Wh After Taking Early Beating Georgian i 1 Shows He Hero o Courage r 3 j By Edward Neil 1 Associated ted Press Pre Correspondent d t. t 1 CLEVELAND July 4 m Th I-Th The n tion's pr proudest ho holiday Id Y Inde j jence ence day found a 8 black T- T I sv I i ing young German perched high on o the heavyweight throne that ha his hu come to boa oo-a traditional American po possession ss C Slon ae ac acclaimed e. e claimed on all all' sides for the first fIrst- time the true ruler of or the kingdom i Many of or the faithful who uw aw M. M Ma Max a. a x ng win his hs crown from Jack Sharkey last June on a a. foul while ia a 8 New York camera a rn era were none too sure ire of or the thc even tempered foreigners foreigner's fighting a ability ty But those of or the th clan who peered down from vast the reaches of the m magnificent new Cleve land municipal stadium last wt night will JU never doubt again ling took one of or Americas America's s 's finest heavyweights Young Bill BUl Stribling fr from fr rn lm Macon Ga Gs and in iii fifteen rounds of his first title de tense hacked and hammered and hewed the handsome southerner into a bleeding stumbling punch soaked caricature of the trim and p perfect perie t young aU athlete ete who answered the open open- oPen oPen- ing gong A And about a minute before the end of the fifteenth round when it ft seemed the the Georgian Georgian w would stagger through to to the finish and evade n a knockout turned loose his final blast Fourteen sec seconds c before beCore th the final bell would v. have ve sounded Refer Referee e George Blake Los Angeles was forced to halt the hopeless and award hmel i 1 ing trig th the victory on a technical knock out t. t ou 0 BITTER E END D J i It was a a bitter end for to toa a gallant courageous stand but butIa in one sense cense it was as as a. a for him as the stunning victory was w OJ for Cor the German Just as the faith falth ful Ui and the critics during the thc p past t year have doubted fight In ing ability so has hIlS Stribling's courage a at t. t times been maligned d But wt night if he got nowhere in particular r with his fighting at at least he did turn in ill a masterpiece of braver bravery dogged courage under a blistering cutting fire that probably would have l ted any heavyweight hea campaigning toda today I k For the first three rounds was at his best a tall taU lean greyhound grey grey- hound of a boxer fast tricky and an accurate dazzling punch puncher i The stolid German marched into him half hall crouching weaving a little and Stribling nailed the champion champton with every ery punch in the book He tossed around in the clinches kept him off ore balance and peppered him with rights righta until the s eye cre began to swell and the fanciers sat back in anticipation ora ofa or of ofia a pleasant interesting e evening ning smiled and took his pun i never faltering never chang ha g g. g lug ing his battle plan a mite crowding forward punching short and hard with Jolting nashes to the body curling hooks to the head Stribling let lct him have the left drilled him with the right and still he came on r- r FALTERS IN FOURTH started to falter in in tie the oJ fourth as swept on like a arising rising tide beating against a shore I A short hook to the face brou brought brough blood from Irom Stribling's nose He He- Hewa wa- wa vered cred And from that point on with the he exception of bf one desperate desecrate flaIl 1 ing rally that carried the eighth round for him Stribling slipped bac back bacZ Ills His right c eyelid was cut in the sev uv his left in the tenth and he ht barely made his corner erect as the I gong ended that round J His lips were smashed his nose CU cut and his blood smeared face was a agory aj alt gory mask mask- Grimly he be took his mg jug as the German increasing hi his pace as the battle wore on on han m r him about the body drummed on ou th t-b battered features But bad badly I as ling was hurt the thc dramatic end endina t In the fifteenth round came caine as asa a. a surprise caught the GeorgIan Georgi with a short left leet hook and find right to the chin with the fight only se Sf i ends to go and down went In a n heap in his own corner H Hi sprawled on the canvas can almost under th the thc lower rope and hc barely r reached h 1 his s feet at the count o of nine It lug InS tore Into him halted baited for a as he sensed the gallant southerner desperate plight and looked pi 1 to at t Referee Blake Instant i the Pacific coast official stepped steppe l 1 I ei tween them and lifted a hand in tok token of victory t FINANCIAL FLOP LOP While the battle was a a. fighting sift j cess l i it was anything but a anone mon maker for Madison Square Garde Gardei r. r of Ohio promoters of f the ait affair There were scarcely In th the h hug hugi amphitheater on the Lake Lako Erie sh or that was built to hold Th gross toss receipts were estimated at t 25 and If U a reche recheck k does not ot boos that fJ figure the Garden Garden- If ure probably probably stand a loss of between r to The corporation with willi Jr now now an accredited champion has a a. a opportunity to wipe out u th that'd that t this fall with a match beti betie e and Primo Prima Camera bet of oC whom arc are under contract for br th Ui bout The contest may maybe be be bc stag slag here in hi the same sam stadium Septem I em I bo 17 |
