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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prizefighter Ernie Schaaf who died after his ring hammering from monstrous Primo Camera (TIME, Feb. 20) was buried at Wrentham, Mass, last week without his brain. His brain remained in Manhattan, scene of the fight, for medical legalists to determine just what caused the death. Primo Camera might have committed murder. Or Schaaf might merely have died during a crisis in his professional life. Jimmy Walker's brother Dr. William H. Walker, who was last week under charges of splitting fees on municipal medical work, had-as medical attache of the New York Boxing Commission-certified that Schaaf...
Between Schaaf's crumpling in the ring and his death three days later he lay in coma. Dr. Philip Goodhart, professor of Clinical Neurology at Columbia, came in on the case as consultant. He found Schaaf's left side paralyzed. The condition of the fighter's eyes confirmed the diagnosis of a deep-seated lesion in the right side of the brain. To relieve pressure and explore the injury Dr. Byron Polk Stookey, Columbia brain surgeon, cut a 3 1/2 in. disk from the right side of Schaaf's skull. Only a small hemorrhage was visible...
...inflammation, continued Dr. Norris in his report, "obviously antedated the boxing match, but because of its insidious development it would not necessarily give symptoms and would have been highly improbable to detect at the time of the physical examination before the bout. In the ring, however, it interfered with Schaaf's boxing skill so that he was less able to avoid blows. In addition, blows not in themselves dangerous aggravated the meningo encephalitis [inflammation]." At Albany, New York State Senators chattered about repealing "Mayor" Walker's boxing laws, and safeguarding the health of boxers. At Boston, a Massachusetts...
...entries in the Westminster Kennel Club's 57th annual show these six, chosen best of their breeds and classes, had reached the final competition for the title of Best in Show, finest U. S. dog. The dogs seemed to know it. Gravely circling the green-carpeted judging ring, they appeared oblivious of the 5,000 spectators and of each other...
...centre of the ring, closely watching the proud and handsome dogs, was a proud and handsome lady, Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, wife of Remington Arms Co.'s Board Chairman Marcellus Hartley Dodge, niece of John Davison Rockefeller Sr. She was proud because she had been chosen first woman ever to choose the best dog in the Westminster show...