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INSTALMENT NO. 1
THE CHINA MAIL.
A PUNCH THAT'
YOUNG STRIBLING SUCCUMBS TO INTERNAL INJURIES
NEARLY RUINED ME MOST SCIENTIFIC HEAVYWEIGHT
American Negro Within Ace Of T.K.O.
Reggie Meen No Match
Bu Primo Carnera
(Heavyweight Champion Of The World.)
Heavy-weight Champion of
I can pledge my word that
there was no fixing Green as
BOXER IN 20 YEARS
Macon, Georgia. To-day. Considerable gloom passed over boxing circles last evening when it was heard that Young Stribling. the finest scientific heavyweight boxer in the Inst twenty years, had succumbed to internal injuries sustained in his road accident on Monday.
Stribling. the "Pride of Georgia," won a decision against Primo Carnera on a foul in Paris, but was beaten by Max Schmeling in his attempt on the world championship.-Reuter.
known 38 "Bombo." As usual. "set-up" was the cry in the newspapers.
not
The World continues his amazing
It was an open-air arena, and he story to-day by telling of his was in 1930, there was no need light rain fell throughout the Corrival in the United States and his to make my opponents quit, bebout. In the first round I slip-
early fight there. A big negra, cause 1 could have hammered ped, but fortunately did Roy Ace Clark, landed a punch in such battlers as Big Boy Peter-jtwist my ankle. ja fight at Philadelphia which nearly son to defeat, anyway.
My corner cautioned me to be! ruined Carera's ring ambitions. Many of them. I am sure. careful with my footwork,, so I But the Italian giant won through did stop quickly and fairly; but boxed "Bombo"-as carefully as jand went on to gain the champion-scandal naturally spread because then knew how-right up into
ship of the world. Yet five years of the many one and two round the sixth round, when I pounded} jogo he was a penniless, hungry wan-knock-outs, most of which bouts him to the floor.
stever.
I
Called A Fake.
were about as Pasy as light training camp sparring work-
He took the count. of nine; SHALL never forget the day outs, except-i was always level
krose. Suddenly a towel first arived in New York. I had ing to win as quickly as possible. then
And so,
following Peterson, shot into the ring from his been told on the voyage across the Elziar Rioux, Cowboy Bill Owens, corner, much confusion and ter Atlantic that a Mr. William Duffy Buster Martin. Jin Sigman. Man rific booing resulting when, the was arranging matches for me in the Mountain Erickson, and Farmer negro was called the loser on a States, and I was looking forward to Lodge were punched out or pass-technical K.O.
fed out in a round or two, until! The next day the getting busy.
papera fairly After my fights with Young Stri-that most interesting night (for shrieked "fake." I felt terribly had ling in London I realised as well aste) on March 3, when I met Roy myself over the queer ending of that,
Ace Clark at Philadelphia.
bout, which I certainly was winning! any one that if I was superhuman in
Clark. e negro, all hut ruined when the towel was togard no my- physique I had much to learn about my first American tour through steriously after “Bomba" got to his what they called "ring technique." giving me a binck eye-the big-fest.
gert, perhaps, that over closed al Big George Godfrey
human eye. We reached New York Harbour jon December 31. 1929. There was quite a crowd at the pier that New Year's Eve.
My Mistake.
An investigation followed, the; boxing authorities putting a banj jon me, and most other States in
America soon did the same.
Ace landed that damaging Personally, I convinced the in-1 punch early in the fifth round vestigators that I had nothing to and I made the mistake that 'do at all with the towel-tonsing. Among the first to welcome me many boxers do of blowing my but my managers were suspended| was big George Godfrey, the nose to clear the vision,
and so wos I. famous negro heavy-weight, of That only increased the awell- But I kept on my itinerary, whom we had heard much in ing, so that when the bell sound-working in States that had not Paris and London.
ed and I went. to my corner, yet prohibited my exhibitions. I
He was not us tall as I. but he Mr. See looked aghast. did seem as heavy.
In fact, hel
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much out of George, although, when he wanted to. he was still a formidable fighter as I later learned personally. for at least three rounds.
stopped Sam Baker, "X.O." Christner and two or three others! in from one to four rounds, and then faced what critics said should be my first real test in America-the Godfrey match,
And until Black George fouled me badly in the fifth round, the Philadelphia bout on June 23, 1930, was a real fight, indeed.
Best I Had Met.
But I am getting ahead of my baxing authorities were threaten- A club doctor and one of the In addition to Godfrey, anothering to stop the fight because great pugilist-Gene Tunney, the they feared my eye would burst, Outside Stribling. perhaps, retired world's champion-shook but Mr. See pleaded with them Godfrey easily Was the best and-then told me that I must boxer I had yet faced, and dur-
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So I tore Into the negro, putting everything I had in three body smashes. I knew Ace was tired, and those blows did the trick.
He was there to welcome an-stop Clark in the next round! other party. but he most graciously greeted me, 100. I will not forget his courtesy. I still think it a good omen thatį I met such a great boxer and champion upon coming ashore in
He collapsed and was counted out. the United States.
Had he been able to open or had I failed to
jing four rounds we exchanged | many heavy blows before a hugej crowd in the ball park.
We battled rather fast, too, and the fans seemed pleased until the negro hit me twice (very hard) in the groin, causing me to collapse from pain and temporary paralysis.
And then, for the first time, my big eye, too, I met American Pressmen stop him in the sixth, Ace would and photographers, who were so have had a technical K.O. over
Soon afterwards, Godfrey was busy focusing on my feet.
me, and that would have been a fined and suspended for a long Soon after their work was jgreat setback just then.
time because of what the boxing published I was called "Fiddle. Ever since, some critics insist board declared were "deliberate Feel," "Satchel Feet," "Bootay," that Clark should have beaten fouls."
Old me.
elc., in the newspapers. shoes of mine were put in store windows, babies were cradled in them.
Where Are They?
TO-MORROW,
Back to America to meet Maloney;
I certainly doubt that, but surely he gave me one black eye feel like quitting; Sharkey match Thus Primo became famous that "protruded like a lobster's," for his feet-it least, so far as as Mr. See said:
arranged. Ah, the American humour-lovers were woods seem full of men who concerned. Soon came my ring could have licked Carnera! debut in Madison-square Garden If they could-where are they in January 1930.
to-day?
Police actually had to force & After that Philadelphia black way for me through overflowing eye--and I remember Ace Clark crowds outside Stillman's "Gym" by that-1 bowled over Sully in New York City, where I train-Montgomery, Chuck Wiggins, ed every afternoon,
Frank Savita, George Trafton, Jack McAuliffe, and Neil Clisby in one-two round order, while
Publicity Pulls,
The papers were full of my Press protests grew terrific over feet and fists, and other giant my quick victories.
Baer Offered $20,000 to fight McCorkindale
Los Angeles, Sept. 24.
Max Baer of California, fore- (most heavy-weight challenger,
lore, and while nearly all this Most of the opposition were has been offered: $20,000 to fight publicity was what you call green, strong boys or shop-worn Don McCorkindale, South Afri- "kidding," it attracted so much veterans, it is true. Even if they can champion, in a 10-rounder mob intarest that the Garden was tried their best, I am sure at Dreamland Park. packed when I leaped over the could have beaten them down.. Babe Culman, matchmaker and top rope to box Big Boy Peter- And what travelling I did. American représentative of Mc- son, reputed then to be a fair New York, Buffalo, Chicago, St. Corkindale, explained to Baer's trial horse.
Louis, Karisas City, Jacksonville, manager, Ancil Hoffman, that But he made a most feeble Omaha, Denver, Los Angeles (the African heavy would be a showing against me, going down San Francisco, and other cities great drawing card becausė- Of and out after I had hit him a that fust now alip my mind wore his recent victory in Europe øver few hard belts,
visited by mě during the first Larry Gains, Canadian: heavy. five months of 1930.
The next day nearly all the New York newspapers severely criticised the bout as a "fake"--and that was the start of a lot of similar binat
Finally, In April, I ran into a great mess of, trouble, at Oakland, CAL, when I bored a man who called him solf Maurice Chevalier, also
Gains was the same lad who pounded Primo Carnera of Italy, present champion, to submission last year in London. Baer is ex- pecting a championship bout with Carners,-United Prése."
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