Evening star., 1933-02-11
LIGHT Dab IN 18TH
PUTS SCHAAF OUT
Blow Ends Tame Contest in
+ Which Big Primo Loses
but One Round.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Press Sports Editor.

NJ TO the Strange anu DdI-
l Y fling career of Primo Car
nera, the big heave-and-
haul man of the heavyweightS,
today belonged a 13-round knock
out victory over blond Ernie
Schaaf of Boston and, as a prob
able consequence, a return match
with Jack Sharkey for the heavy
weight championship of the
world.
If it was all a calculated business, as
many suggested in advance and felt
that a dull, colorless fight confirmed,
the jeering capacity crowd of 10000
suddenly was furnished an astonishing
sight by the apparent utter collapse
of Schaaf after being tapped lightly
in the face by left jab early in the
thirteenth round.
Sluggish from the start and con-
spicuously unconscious at the nnlsn,
Schaaf toppled back from Primo's
blow, sat down a bit bewildered and
then after a few seconds meditation he
crumpled in heap in the resin.
After defying frantic efforts to revive
him in his corner, Ernie was lugged out
of the ring, ironically enough, by Shar-
key and two policemen. half hour
later he was taken for examination to
the nearby Polytechnic Hospital, suffer-
ing, according to the statement OF his
own and the Boxing Commissions doc
tor, from Slight conclusion"
There, q short time afterward, he
was reported to have regained con-
seriousness, to be resting comfortably
and in no danger.
IF 1t wasn't, as many critics insisted,
j one of the best "acts" the prize ring
has known in many day, 1t was
very dramatic and also disconcerting to
those at the ringside who were bored
by IL slow, numbering rounds and in no
way impressed by the poke that put
Ernie on the floor for the first time
and out" while Referee Billy (Glover)
Cavanaugh, boxing coach at West
Point, counted 10, 81 seconds after the
start of their last round.
Right up to the finish it looked a
''barney" to the experts, many of whom
had warned the customers in advance
and developed a consequent rush for
the turnstiles that packed the arena
and forced the mounted police to dis
perse the overflow crowd.
SdIUeTd, 1TOIl bIlc cJdAI, OuLokNCaCI,
outboxed and outpunched his smaller
rival using his extra weight of nearly
so pounds to big advantage and hand
ling Ernie with ease at close quarters.
But Primo couldn't punch effectively
and Schaaf apparently wouldn't unless
1t was fact that he was weakened and
discouraged by the sheer power In
Cameras bulk.
THE left that put Schaaf on the
i floor, for the first and only time,
was nowhere near as robust as
some Of the clumsy wallops Camera hao
landed earlier and with much earnest
ness. Nevertheless, there was blond
Ernie on .the floor, apparently quite
dead to the world; there was the mani
fest. alarm of all his handlers, the po-
lice, the. doctors, and the trip to the
hospital. esss.
Most of the crowd remained for fully
Is minutes, arguing and jeering, equally
as bafied as the ringsiders as to
whether to accept the developments at
their face value.
Johnny Buckley, Schaaf's manager,
Indignantly rejected the suspicious OF
visitors to the dressing room and loudly
recalled that Ernie had passed out in
much the same way from hattering at
the very close of his fight with Max
Baer in Chicago last Fall.
As for the fight itself aside from
"A the novelty that always is asso-
ciated with Cameras perform
ances, there was little or no excitement.
Schaaf slow and unable to penetrate
Cameras awkward defcn~e. woE only
one of the 13 rounds This was the
fourth. in which he brought blood from
Primo's nose with a left jab. There
after Schaaf left this part of Cameras
anatomy strictly alone. He did not land
a half dozen effective punches in the
entire fight.
Camera. bit pale at the beginning.
gained quickly in confidence and poise.
He increased his pace, as the fight went
along He beat tattoo on Ernie's ribs
with ponderous right. He pushed and
showed the smaller man around. Along
about the eighth round, the italian be-
gan to smile at friends around the
but he landed no severe blows and
took none.
IRON the eighth round to the finish
J. the-galleries loosed an outburst of
boos at every bell that sent the
men to their corners. Sharkey, mean
while, poured verbal advice into the
ears of his protege, without effect.
The odds had switched suddenly to
Carnera, an 8-to-5 choice at the ring
side, and the outcome justified them.
Camera weighed 26412; Schaaf, 20712.
KENDALL GETS EVEN