The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-01
SCHAAF SAVED FROM KNOCKOUT
 BY FINAL BELL
6,5OO See Baer Adnlinis= ter Crushing Defeat to Fayorite - B0stOnian Unconscious in Last Round
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff CorrcSDOndcnt)

Chicago, Sept 1-(UP)- Max Baer's heavy. fists pounded today at the door of heavyweight cham pion Jack Sharkey, after they had sent Ernie Schaaf, big Bostonian, reeling to a crushing defeat.
 Baer's victory will go in the record books as a 10-round decis- ion, but to the crowd of $500, who saw Schaaf stretched unconscious on the floor at the final bell, it was knockout.
 The final bell rang just 10 sec onds too soon to keep the referee from counting out Schaaf, hitherto regarded as one of the two or three foremost heavyweights.
 Bacr Ovcrcomes Lead. Baer, staging a whirlwind finish in the last three roun6s, wiped out Schaaf's early lead, battered the brawny ex-sailor to exhaustion then felled him with the last two punches of the fight.
 Baer, a magnificent athlete-6 feet, inches in height and weigh ing 200 pounds. ripped his two fists to the weary Schaaf's head as the Bostonian came staggering off the ropes in the last few sec onds. Schaaf toppled face for ward. Just as his face buried it. self in the canvas, the last bell changed.
 Schaaf's seconds piled into the ring, lifted him to a sitting pos ition and worked furiously to bring him back to consciousness. They poured water on his head; rubbed | under his heart, and hosted his legs in the air to start the blood flowing faster. Schaaf was com- pletely out.
 In A Stupor.
 The clocks hand moved on a. round it's course from the 3-min- ute mark, where it was at the end of the round, on up to the zero mark denoting the end of the min- ute's rest period between rounds and the start of another round. Had there been another round, Schaaf couldn't have come out for it. Almost another minute-time enough to count him out nine or ten times-passed before Schaaf finally shook off his stupor, came to and was able to scramble with difficulty to, his feet.
 It was the first time Schaaf, who weighed 209 1-2, has been knocked off his feet since Jack Sharkey and his manager, Johnny Buckley, bought the ex-sailor's contract two years ago. It was the most decis- i've defeat ever suffered by Schaaf, who had won 27 out of his last 29 bouts.
 Schaaf Takes Lead. For six-rounds Schaaf outfought Baer, landed the cleaner, harder blows and was constantly the ag- gressor. Baer devoted most of his time in the early rounds to posing, laughing, making faces and gen. erally disporting himself in strange contrast to the vicious fighter he was in the last three rounds. The decision was not unanimous as one judge, Livingston Osborne, deemed Schaaf had piled up enough points in the early rounds to de- serve draw. The referee, Tom my Thomas, and the other judge, Ed Klein, voted for Baer. The receipts were estimated at $15,0O0. Andy Callahan, Boston junior welterweight, pounded out an B. round decision over Harry Dublin sky, Chicago, in the semi-final. Both weighed 139 1-2.
 Callahan, the first southpaw to defeat Dublinsky apparently had an edge in four rounds, with one even and Dublinsky getting a shade in the other three.