BOXING SENSATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 15 February 1933, Page 5

BOXING SENSATION

DEATH OF ERNIE SCHAAF DOCTORS DIFFER AS TO CAUSE ORDER FOR CARXERA’S ARREST (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 15th February, 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, 14th February.

Ernie Selmaf died to-day. With him were his mother, Mrs Lucy Schaal, and his manager and friend Johnny Buckley. Dr. Byron Stookly, brain specialist in charge of the operation, said that Selmaf must have been knocked out on his feet. Throughout the thirteen rounds on Friday night, spectators who shouted for action, crying ‘‘fake,” were struck with the fact that Selmaf oftered only a desultory defence, .it times walking into Camera’s gloves with his arms almost wide. Tlie blow which dropped him landed lightly. Selmaf recovered from influenza only a fortnight before the fight. - Friends said that (lie burning ambition of Selmaf was to enter the priesthood. He was a devout Catholic and a close friend of the Rev. Father Steuvcr, who administered the last rites.

Shortly before coming here by train Selmaf attended a religious retreat at Boston.

Camera has been ordered to be arrested on a- technical charge of manslaughter. _ > Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical examiner in New York City, said that the death of Schaaaf resulted from natural causes, not from any injury in the Camera bout. Dr. Norris, who performed tiie autopsy, said that the exact nature of the substance pressing on the brain was to ho determined by microscopic examination later. Dr. Norns was of an opinion contrary to that of Dr. Stookly. wlio said that he must have been knocked out on his feet and the damage could, not have resulted from anything hut this match.