Show YO YOUNG NG STRIBLING NG IS LI LIKELY ELY TO TO GIVE GIVE UP UP BOXI BOXING C. C AS AS HIS PROFESSION NOW 15 BURNED OUT REPORT Georgia G Flash Plash Makes I Fortune Prom From Small I Bouts v ILOS LOS ANGELES Dec 10 Young oung Young who withdrew from a match with Gene Tunney may give up un up boxing entirely has been a favorite figure in the sport J ever over since he boxed rings around Uko Uiko down in Georgia Hehns He has hns fought Berlenbach and many other boxers using his great skill I Ither either ther to win or to hold the other fellow safe sate He has had championship championship champion champion- ship ip ambitions expecting to grow Into a heavyweight Stribling hasn't grown much this past two years His growth may have bave been stunted by constant training and fighting for or he has hascen been cen en traveling all alt over the country boxing constantly constanty He has become n a fencing master among boxers ana and at times he has shown an inclination inclination tion to go in and mix with a willing will will- ing roughness that has startled the Crowds But on the whole he has b been en carefully held back to develop devel devel- op p slowly and be able to box any- any pe without risk of a knockout Incidentally Stribling has made about In the ring without i petting getting a big purse iz hi any anyone one fight I Boxing everywhere he ho has spent a alot alot I lot fot of time In Florida where investments in- in vestments at the tha beginning of the r real jeal al estate boom have nave added a great d deal al to the Stribling family fortune The need for money no longer drives him on and it seems very that he will retire from the rIng j without making a any y more ef effort effort ef- ef fort to get a a. championship Incent In j J cent Fent fights has shown caution and anti less aggressiveness aggressive aggressive- ness than usual He was taken out oute ot of e the ring for six months once be before be- be SPore fore fore when it was evident that too much juch fighting was making him hum stale Its It's possible that he will drop dropo dropout dropout o out t for a while again put on weight and then come back among the avies It too much boxing hasl has begun begun to affect Young Stribling's stamina he isn Isn't t by any means the first boxer spoiled by being rushed along to tomake make ake money There are other cele- cele rated i cases There was young Eddie Eddie Eddie Ed- Ed die Hanlon Hanon on once co the most b brilliant ft featherweight in the world who ho atthe atthe at atthe the age of 16 was matched against Young Corbett conqueror of the great at Terry McGovern in a San Francisco twenty-round twenty fight That 4 battle was a n surprise for the spectators spectators spec spec- who expected to see the wise and experienced slugger Corbett Corbett Corbett Cor- Cor bett overwhelm the schoolboy Jg ter Hanlon held Corbett even all the way slugging whenever CorLett CorLett Cor- Cor Lett wanted to slug and refusing to take a backward step In the eighteenth eight eight- e nth round he knocked Corbett lown and practically out There ere vere no rio boxing commissions in those hose days and Dave Tu Tuthill thill one of Corbetts Corbett's craft crafty seconds ran around the ring and hit Corbett between the shoulder blades wj with a sponge soaked soaked with ice at water r waking him up in time to rise at the nine second second sec sec- J ond nd count Afterward Hanlon fought of the toughest fighters of Th's time until he was knocked out by y Terry McGovern In Philadelphia after baiter nearl nearly knocking McGovern out Iri the same round After that he sent fv tent to pieces rapidly softened by 0 much pounding arid too mU much h fighting while ho he was only halt half de- de eloped St St. Scores of promising boys ha have ve en spoiled by being rushed along too fast Al Reich might have ha b be- be com ome a a. great heavyweight It If he hadn been matched with experienced Carl Morris l in his second Ight fight Morris knocked knockel Reich cold Jn yn the second round and Reich never forgot that punch and n never nver ver fought nIth much confidence afterward t t. Stribling hasn't been rushed too too jast He hasn't been overmatched at any ny time But he has been worked Ik ike a a. truck horse In a a- race-horse race ame If It lie he Is through as s some of his lIs friends think It Isn isn't t b because c use he e ha has hag been soften softened d by punches punches- but because he has s done dona too much hard work In the ring when he hould have been going fishing and playing ing baseball like other boys l |