Show Stribling Follows Jeffries f K KS w S A v v Loses Popularity By JOE WILLIAMS YORK July When S-When 6 When a lIghter fighter surrenders to his nerves nerves- nerves NEW for lor his fear ear bla collapse Is 13 thorough com corn complete i Is I which a parlor phrase and devastating a ball player a sprinter can canteel c Any AIly other type of oC o athlete athlete a golfer goiter feel teel the clammy touch Of of o fear ear and yet hold bold on to a vestige of ot his competitive soul But a fighter cant can't J Just st why only those schooled In la the over mind problem can tell you It may be ascribable to ascribable to the fact that In sport Is the man to conflict so EO pro pro pro- prok sv a no as In fighting k tests known as haz- haz LS In I golf there are awesome ards and opponents capable 0 ot of you In baseball there are pitchers with speed and books hooks that blind and baffle barne But Dut there Is la no one stand stand- stand 0 VS V'S anda and andr l In front of ot wearing a ounce five glove 4 fv q hog Ing e you fer fr Cn a pound 12 glower slower r crumpled more corn corn- h No Nto Shier fighter In recent years L f al Stal before the ominous shadow of o fear feat than did didyoung ft f j i young Billy Dilly Stribling on the day he was to step stepI Into the ring with Paralyzing Paul Berlenbach forthe for lor I J the light heavyweight championship STRIBLING On no other basis Is It possible to explain the utterly spiritless and Impotent performance the Georgian made Every writer In the metropolis commented the fol id- following lowing day that Stribling Stribling entered the ring with IL a shattered nerve force seized with terror Dr Walker Walker- examining physician n of the state ring commission made a private te prediction StrIbling would be badly beaten Dr or Walk Walk- Walker Walker Walker er examined him and found his heart racing like a French motor his blood pressure 20 O points above normal and his bis breathing Irregular Ills His nerves are shot confided Dr Walker Hell HeIl blow as sure as the Creator designed green apples The world knows Stribling once looked on as contender for the the heavyweight championship blew as 8 no heralded In Inears InI years ears ears has blow Usually it a veritable torrent and flow of o action the southerner after aCter landing oria one right right-hander In Inthe the first round which had no effect on the stolid G German resorted to what ringside call tin Un canning r Is not ot the first victim of o ring nerves and the chances are he hI wont won't be the last Jim surrendered to his nerves the night before that historic battle with Ith Jack Johnson at Reno In 1910 This became known in after aCter years rears when his camp attaches told how bow he spent a night how be he 0 tossed tossed In hi his bed like a fishing yawl l In a northern gale and bow how finally he be got up and walked under the trees studying the stars J History records Incidentally that this floe noc noc-f noc lesson in astrology was not wasted er ef- ef s fort for tor ber besaw be hc r saw plenty ot of stars In the ring with t the negro the next day I recall the night Tony of Chicago fought Tomm Tommy Gibbons at Toledo Toledo Melchoir was said to be a great heavy heavyweight prospect ct I I- I asked Jimmy Dime Dime George Chips old manager JEFFRIS JEFFRI S who was handling him how he be figured the fight In round Melchoir will be knocked out a tonight Dime answered His nerves have hae turned on him Hes He's lost loet six pounds since weighing weighing-In time Hes He's just lust discovered there Is such a thing as tear fear car I teel eel sorry for him That That's the way the fI ht went wont Gibbons won In a around round It was Wal wasby by the way the first of a along long string of knockouts by Gibbons which led to his subsequent lIght wIth Jack Dempsey the title |