FINE CAREER ENDED

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1933, Page 24

FINE CAREER ENDED

THE DEATH OF STRIBLINCr

General regret will'bo felt throughout the boxing world at the tragi* death during tho week of W. I* ("Young") Striblhig, who, though pas» his best, was still a leading exponent of the sport in. which ho made a. worl* wide name for himself. From about 1928 until 1931, when he was badl^ beaten by tho then champion, , Ma* Schincliug, Stribling was regarded, a# one of the most likely aspirants to th» highest honour boxing has to offer—tha world's professional heavyweight title. Born on.Dooem.ber 26, 1904, Stribling was quickly started on.a boxing career by his father, who was only 18 years his senior. Mr. Stribling, sen., was ia tho vaudeville business, and whcuh« accompanied his son to Australia last year he told a Sydney audience it had always been his ambition for William Lawrence to bicome a professional boxer and he had trained him for tha ring from his boyhood days. . Starting his professional career m> 1921, Stribling fought about 400 bouts. At tho end of 1931 his record was as follows: —Number of bouts, 375; woa on k.0., 128; won on decision, 188; no decision, 31; drawn, 16; lost, 12. Boxing proved remunerative for Stribliug and, according to a cable message- from New York, ho was welloff when ho died. He did a lot of travelling, visiting Australia and South Africa last year, in addition. t« visits to Europe. Notable among his bouts were those against Camera,at London in 1929 when the present champion was felled for the first time and was beaten on a foul in tlie seventh! round; against Phil Scott, tho British; heavyweight, at London, Stribling quickly winning by a knock-out iv the second round; against Jack Sharkcy, by whom he was outpointed iiv 1929; and against Schmeling, in 1931, at Clevo* land, tho German winning by a technical knock-out in the 15th round after giving Stribling a severe Keating.