- Frankie Campbell
Onlookers claimed that Baer slugged Campbell "unmercifully" in the 5th round after he was already unconscious but had held onto his feet by the ropes. Had the referee not intervened, Campbell would have been killed outright.
(UP) Doctors worked over Campbell in the open-air ring at the baseball park for half an hour and, failing to revive him, took him to a local hospital where other physicians and nurses worked over him for several hours. Campbell died from a severe concussion of the brain.Doctors later discovered that his brain had been knocked loose from the connective tissue inside his head.
Brain specialist Dr. Tilton E. Tillman "declared death had been caused by a succession of blows on the jaw and not by any struck on the rear of the head," and that Campbell's brain had been "knocked completely loose from his skull." [Oakland Tribune - September 26,1930]
The California State Boxing Commission soon suspended Referee Irwin for his failure to stop the fight, J. Hamilton Lorimer (Baer's manager), Carol E. Working and Tom Maloney (Campbell's managers), and seconds Tillie "Kid" Herman, Ray Carlin, Frankie Burns, and Larry Morrison.
Campbell's professional record was 33-4-2 with 26 knockouts wins.
External links
* [http://www.maxbaer.org/frankie.html Mini-biography on Frankie Campbell]
* [http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/Frankie_Campbell The Boxing Wiki entry on Frankie Campbell]
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