BOXER'S ILL-LUGK.
STRIBLING LOSES A FOOT. (Received 11 a.m.) NEW YOEK, October 1. At Macon, Georgia, W. L. Stribling, the well-known heavy-weight boxer, was critically injured when 6truck by an automobile while riding a motor cycle. It wae necessary to amputate his left foot. Stribling also sustained a fractured hip, and the pelvis bone was injured. This misfortune closes the ling career of one of the most colourful boxers of recent years. Trained from childhood by his father with a view to winning: the world's heavy-weight boxing title, W. L; Stribling was a professional boxer at Iβ years of age, and when he came into the limelight as a contender for the title by his fights with Camera, the present champion in 1929, he had fought ««?"Wg» than any other notable boxer then on tj horizon. In - -^flax^fe^^T-^s 1 years of age.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 232, 2 October 1933, Page 7
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