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Show , RING SPORT IN NEW YQRK -; HIT Repeal of Boxing Law Threatened by State's Solons After Tragedy More Stringent Regulations Virtually Certain; Atb-letie Atb-letie Commlition Bani Sharkey-Carnera " Bout Giant OaM IeeiUblUhed (Br A.i.rtslil Peace) NEW YORK, Teb. 15 The death of Ernie Schaaf had truck a heary blow at boxing In New York state today, brought about threat of repeal of the state boxing law and j caused the virtual disbarment of Primo Camera, solely t upon the ground of his gigantic slse. Only a few hours after Schaaf died In Polyclinic hospital of a brain In-Jury, In-Jury, Governor Lehman ordered a thorough investigation ot hi bout with Camera In Madison Square Oar- J den last rrlday night; tha legislature , moved toward more stringent regulations regula-tions for boxing It not outright repeal of tha law under which II Is conduct- , ad la this stats, and the stata athletic commission flatly declared It would not approve a match between Car-nera Car-nera and Sharkey nor allow tha hu Italian to box anyone lea than t feet S inches tall and weighing leaa than 'T 220 pounds. Back of tha commission' surprlt- ; Ing action, wracking tha Caraen't plan for a title match here In June between Sharkey and Camera, waa ; tha venerable figure ot William Mul- i doon. ' SOFiaOBCADNAVaHT CLASS H Wtth General John J. Phelan con curring. Muldoon ennounced that the "superdreednaughf class for over died heavyweights, first organised In 1031. would be reestablished and that Camera, if he is to fight in this stata at all, must pick his rivals strictly from within that division. Muldoon declared he had opposed h the Schaaf-Carnera bout from the start, but that public opinion had led him to approve it against hla better Judgment "I didn't ee the fight" the veteran commissioner ssid, "but I was afraid of it from tha start and now my fears are borne out Camera la a great athlete from the feet Up. He has the speed and agUlty of e middleweight and as far as punching is concerned ha needs no snap to his blows. His weight Is enough. He is the greatest physical specimen I hsve ever seen." The effect of the commission's ruling rul-ing Is practically to bar tha big Italian Ital-ian from competition In this state. I The "superdreadnaught" division, as defined by the commission, would Include In-clude only about a half dozen heavyweights heavy-weights earners, George Godfrey, Jose Santa, Walter Cobb, Ray Impel-letlere Impel-letlere and Vlctorlo Cam polo. Of these, Csrnera has mat and defeated all but Impelletlerc. Although Jimmy Johnston, Garden boxing promoter, declined to state his reaction to tha commission ruling, there were indications that tha Garden Gar-den had under consideration a plan to move the Sharkey-Carnera title match to some other state, pomibly Maaskchusatta. The bout could be held there under the auaplcea of tha Boston Garden, a subsidiary ot the local corporation. Notwithstanding rumblings at Albany, Al-bany, It was considered unlikely that the Boston heavyweight's death would bring about any ban on boxing. box-ing. Jamas A. Farley, chairman of the Democratic national committee and chairman of the New York state WL athletic commission, took the position that Schsars death, while deeply to be deplored, could not be construed as a reflection upon boxing. FEW SIMILAR ACCIDENTS "During my connection with box Ing In New York state," ha said, "there have been very few such accidents. ac-cidents. I do not recall more than three, and none reflects upon boxing or the manner in which It 1 conducted conduct-ed her. Tha commission, clubs and others all have done everything possible pos-sible to protect the boxers." Farley, who arrived here from Miami too late to attend the commission commis-sion meeting, pointed out at tha same a. time that fatal accidents have occurred oc-curred In other sports, notably toot-ball, toot-ball, without causing any "great hue or cry." At Albany, the only direct actlofl was taken by Governor Lehman In ordering the state athletic commission to investigate "sll the circumstances" surrounding Schssfs fstal injury. i Any future action he might take, the governor Indicated, would depend upon what tacts were presented to him by the commission. Senator Henry G. Schackno, Bronx Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary Judi-ciary committee, aald ha would ask In a few days for repeal of the boxing law, while Assemblyman Saul Strait f Tammany Democrat and Arthur Schwartz, Buffalo Republican, both announced they favored more stringent strin-gent legislation to prevent the matching match-ing ot boxers of unequal weights. Meanwhile, the exact causa of Schaaf s death remained in doubt, pending thorough examination and microscopic analysis ot the brain. ' This probably cannot ba completed f for ten days. I There was shsrp conflict in medical K opinion aa to the cause of death. Dr. ( Charlea W. Noma, chief medical ax il aminer of New York City, declared t an autopsy hsd revesled "absolutely A no evidence" that Schaaf died ot In- l juries received In the Camera bout, f Dr. Bryan Stookey, noted brain spe- ti clslut who operated upon tha strlck- r en boxer Monday, had declared, on tha other hand, that tha cerebral bam- J orrhage and resulting pressure on I the brain had been caused by Car- j nera' punches. Dr. Stookey' diag nosis was confirmed, tentatively at - least by Dr. Norrls' assistant Dr. Ben-f Ben-f lamia Vance, who performed the autopsy. au-topsy. Ha signed a certificate giving tha causes of death as "cerebral hemorrhage hem-orrhage and cerebral compression." Dr. Vance added, however, that he believed some growth, a cyst or tumor hitherto unsuspected, wa the real cause of the compression that para- lyzed tha fighter's left side from the moment ha toppled over in the thirteenth thir-teenth round until he died at 4:28 o'clock yesterdsy morning.' A police investigation developed no e-'-'nee of "criminal negligence." 1 tent District Attorney Jamee P. Daiy announced after be bad quea- tioned Camera, tha rival managers I and handlers, tha referee, Billy Cava-. Cava-. naugh: tha Judges and boxing commission com-mission officials. . Scbaefs body was sent to She Id ona-ville, ona-ville, Maes., near Boston, last night Funeral services will be held there Friday from the home of hi mother, Mia, Lucy Schaaf, , , . |