Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-02-14 | Page 13 | Death Closes Queer Chapter of Prize Ring

DEATH CLOSES QUEER CHAPTER OF PRIZE RING (Continued from Precedins Pace) sny blow, or ss one doctor liter put it, "no blow at all," might have caused his finsl collapse under the ten times sweep of the referee's count Jsck Sharkey, heavyweight champion cham-pion of the world, who was in Schaafa comer, rushed into the ring and helped drag the fighter back to his stooL The cries of the crowd continued, con-tinued, ebbing only when Schaaf, still unconscious, wss carried from the ring. Sharkey was psrt owner with ; Johnny Buckley of Schssfs contract ' The fight between Csrnera .anc1 ' Schaaf was originally msda with the 1 intention ot having th winner meet Sharkey later this year for th heavy. 1 weight championship. There was such ' public protest however, (becsus of : Shsrkey's psrt ownership of Schaafs 1 contract) that the Garden manage-1 manage-1 ment announced that only it Camera 1 won would a championship bout be srranged. NOTHING TO GAIN As a result Schaaf entered the : fight with nothing to gain so far as . the title wss concerned, and every-. every-. thing to lose. Experts at the ringside scored most ' ot the rounds in fsvor of Csrners, . but most of them were struck by Schaafs seeming diffidence and fail-, fail-, ure to make a fight of it , After the fight it became known . that Schaaf only a fortnight ago had , recovered from an illness of influents, j and this was advanced by his supporters sup-porters as accounting for his un-j un-j favorable showing.