Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-19 | Page 21 | Langford Injured as Eyesight Fails

Langford Injured As Eyesight Fails NEW V YORK Nov 19 UP P Sam Langford one ono of the greatest of negro ring battlers lay Jay critically in injured injured injured in- in in a hospital Tuesday Witnesses said Monday night that Sam probably didn't notice that the tho light liKht was red when he shuffled into the street and was struck by a n nt t Benefit fights tights had provided money for a series of operations on his one eye eyo the last Jast in April 1935 but it I was said that at best Langford had only 50 per cent vision In that eye It was in 1917 that tho the Boston Tar Baby fighting Fred Fulton received recel a blow in the eye that dimmed that optic p permanently As I the years ears advanced a cataract formed in the other eye Despite this handicap he ho won the Mexican heavyweight championship The coach c of oC f the Cincinnati Tigers semipro grid outfit has to tobe tobe tobe be careful about telling the boys to get out and fight every everyman everyman everyman man on tho the team is a professions professional boxer