Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-02 | Page 8 | Auto Accident Puts End to Strib's Ring Career

Auto Accident Puts End t- t tTo t To Strib's Strib s Ring Career Careers f I s Heavyweight Fighter Loses S Left Foot When Side- Side swiped on n His l Motorcycle by Automobile f. f 1 U Given n Fair Chance nce for or Recovery j MACON I Ga Oct 2 W fP William IA c Lawrence Young Stribling heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- t weight boxer his ring career caleer ended 4 U the U by amputation I of his left foot a result of an af f au-f r au-r U U. U accident y yesterday w sv a s s' s L U U g given i 1 V e n a fair fa r f Ji Ills his chance for lor life r 1 J g by physicians to 5 to-i to j j day w. w I. I 2 His mother andI and and- N father reached his ij r t s. s y bedside early this II I morning The elde elder 11 i Stribling known to id 1 the boxing world f I as Pa Ta who I ha haI has t I t been his s sons son's ns man manager 1 t ager and adviser y if J f f. f 1 came tame from 1 W t I t and Mrs Stribling S 'S z s' s t. t from the w. w plantation in south Stribling Georgia f Mrs W. W L L. L Stribling Jr wife of the fighter is in the same hospital convalescing following the birth of a II third child a son Her family physician cian clan Informed her of Stribling's Injuries in injuries in- in juries which also Included a fractured fractured frac frac- I pelvis I ASKS ABOUT SON SONI I She was permitted to speak to him r after an X-ray X had pad been taken She bore up UPwell well after they exchanged d dr I r tv greetings L Later ter she saw him again agam r v Y- Y Hows the baby Stribling asked ked Fine she Fine hc replied d t Mrs Stribling was when crying when she i was wheeled back to her zoom loom U I Hospital physicians said looked somewhat improved this morning rooming and had spent as lory tori a possible Traveling aveling 35 miles an hour yester yester- U day on a aU motorcycle the liKing King of the Canebrake Canebrake en route to a hose hospital hos has I e pita pital to visit his hs wife lie and their third 7 child born two weeks ago waved a t greeting to a friend passing In an au au- 4 He Hc failed to observe ani another an- an i 4 other car car- behind that of his friend Roy Boy Barrow THREE HUNDRED FIGHTS The ring veteran who packed engagements into 15 years of f fighting without re receiving a a a. permanent scar attempted to Q dodge Odge the the- second car but was too late The fender of the automobile struck Stribling crushing g ghis his left leg and sending him sprawling to the pavement Stribling's foot was ws left dangling and he was brought to the hospital here where the member w was s The uThe fo foot ot was vas torn off at the ankle joint and the bones are broken so that another operation will be made as soon as- as the as-the the patient Is strong enough Dr A. A R. R Rozar the surgeon said NURSE ON SCENE In giving his version of the accident accident accident acci acci- dent Stribling said he was Wa on the right side of the road when all of a sudden n a car car loomed before me I cut cutas f far to the as rl right as possible and then it happened The car hit me rue Miss MIS Frances Jones a a. a nurse who was riding with Barrow fashioned a tourniquet from his cape to stop the flow of blood from Stribling's leg legand legand legand and made bandages from her dress to bind the wounds Stribling did not lose consciousness ess at the scene Barrow said he ran to his aid the fighter grinned Well kid I gu guess s It means there will vili be no nomore nomore nomore more road work Early today he called for something something some thing cool ice cool ice cream or beer The doctors ordered the beer