1933 BOXER FIGHTER YOUNG STRIBLING & MOTHER ON INDIAN MOTORCYCLE PHOTO B4 DEATH

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1933 BOXER FIGHTER YOUNG STRIBLING & MOTHER ON INDIAN MOTORCYCLE PHOTO B4 DEATH
SITTING ON HIS INDIAN MOTORCYCLE IS FAMOUS BOXER YOUNG STRIBLING WITH HIS MOTHER ON BACK. THIS WAS TAKEN SHORTLY BEFORE HIS UNTIMELY DEATH ON THIS CYCLE.
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Young Stribling was a professional boxer in the Heavyweight division. He was the elder brother of fellow boxer Herbert (Baby) Stribling.Strib" fought a total of 286 recorded bouts, losing only 12. He died October 3, 1933, after a motorcycle/automobile accident when he was just 28. The accident occurred October 1 outside of Macon, Georgia. Traveling 35 miles per hour on a motorcycle, "Strib" was en route to a hospital to visit his convalescing wife and their brand-new baby (his third child), born two weeks previously. He waved a greeting to a friend passing in an automobile. But he failed to see another car behind that of his friend, Roy Barrow. The veteran of roughly 300 bouts, who never received a permanent scar due to his great defensive skills, attempted to dodge the second car but was too late. The fender of the car struck Stribling, crushing and virtually ripping off his left foot, and sending him to the pavement, fracturing his pelvis. Stribling was taken to the hospital, where, coincidentally, his wife and baby were. His mother rushed to the hospital from the Stribling plantation in South Georgia; his father from Texas. At one point he awoke, saw his wife, and asked, "How's the baby?" Almost to the end he remained conscious, "carrying on in the same spirit that he showed when they picked him up from the roadside on Sunday," reported papers of the day. "Well, kid," he said to his friend (Barrow), who was the first to reach him as he lay beside his wrecked motorcycle with one foot dangling by a single tendon, "I guess this means NO more roadwork." At first the doctors held out hope, after they had amputated his left foot. But his vitality began to wane. Physicians were amazed at his ability to cling to life when his temperature hit 107 1/2 degrees and his pulse 175. His wife was wheeled into his room. He recognized his wife. "W.L.?" "Sugar," was his barely audible reply. "Hello, baby," were his last words to her, the papers reported. His father walked grimly from the room and tearfully said, "He's gone. Death occurred at 6:00 Tuesday morning, October 3. The next day, his body was placed in the Municipal Auditorium of Macon, to lie in state from 10 in the morning until 6 that evening
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