<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0Ki0T9_1EcaSO0600" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0Ki0T9_1EcaSO0600" width="3840" height="985" >Have you ever heard of Young Stribling? Of course not. Why would you have?Well, now. I have heard of Young Stribling. So many times I hear the story of Young Stribling.So, let me tell you a bit about him. This is an interesting story. One that ended tragically, unfortunately.William Lawrence Stribling Jr. was born December 4, 1904, in Bainbridge, GA, and died October 3, 1933. A short life, but not inconsequential.He was born into a family that performed vaudeville. Interestingly, they were devoutly religious, but not overwrought. He never drank or smoked.Stribling was an outstanding basketball player at Lanier High School in Macon, GA. His team won the State Championship in 1922.He took up boxing in ’21 and began as a featherweight, but grew into a heavyweight. He was good. Very good. He was six-feet tall, well built, and handsome. He became known as “Young Stribling.”By 1926, his earnings exceeded $1 million, which was a significant amount then. (So would it be today, for most of us.)During his pugilistic career, he defeated heavyweight champions of Australia and France, and went fifteen rounds with heavyweight champ Max Schmeling, in the last 14 seconds losing on a 15th-round TKO. The Schmeling fight was the first major bout to be broadcast over radio.Ring magazine named him “Fighter of the Year” once.Then tragedy struck. En route to see his wife and newborn baby (his third) at the hospital, his motorcycle collided with another vehicle. It was bad. His right foot was barely attached. He was taken to the same hospital where his wife and newborn child were. His foot was amputated. He told a close friend that “It looks like I won’t be doing any more road work.”Then, within hours, his fever began to rise. It reached over 107 F. “Young Stribling” passed away barely two days after the accident.When I began this piece, I said I had heard much about this remarkable young man.You see, “Strib,” as he was called by his friends and schoolmates at Lanier High School, was where my father was also a student, and one of “Strib’s” friends.Oh, how I loved to hear my Pop tell of his early growing-up days in Monroe, and who his friends were; and about his football and track experiences with the Lanier High Poets.And many times he told me about “Strib.”Young Stribling.</div></body>

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