BOXER DIES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 458, 16 February 1933, Page 5

BOXER DIES

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ernie schaaf V 9 INJURED IN FIGHT WITH ITAUAN CARNERA WALKED INTO PUNISHMENT

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Rec. Feb. 15. New York, Feb. 14. Ernie Schaaf, the boxer, died today. With him were his mother (Mrs. Lucy Schaaf), his manager, and his friend, Johnny Buckley. Dr. Byron Stookly, the brain specialist, who was in oharge of the operation, said that Schaaf must have been knocked out on his feet. , Throughout the thirteen rounds with Carnera, on Friday night the spectators who' shouted for action by crying "fake," were struck with the fact that Schaf offered only a desultory defence, at times walking into Carnera's gloves with arms almost wide. The blow which dropped him landed lightly. Schaaf recovered from influenza only a fortnight before the fight. His friends say that the burning ambition of Schaaf was to enter the priesthood. He was a devout Catholic ajid a clos'e friend of Rev. Father Steuven, who administered the last rites. Shortly before coming here to train Schaaf attended a religious retreat at Boston. Carnera's arrest has been ordered on a technical charge of manslaughter. Dr. Charles Norris, the chief medical examiner, New York city, said the death of Schaaf resulted from netural causes, and not from any injury in the Carnera bout. Dr. Norris, who performed an autopsy, added that the exact nature of the substance pressing on the brain was to be detefmined by microscopic examination later. Dr. Norris' opinion is eontrary to that of Dr. Stookly, who said Schaaf must have been knocked out on his feet. The damage could not have resulted from anything but this match. It was reported yesterday that Schaaf had been operated on for the removal of a clot of blood from the base of the brain. The operation, which occupied over three hours, was reported as successful, though the patient was left in a eritical condition.