San Francisco, Dec. 13 ANDRE Shelaeff, Oriental welterweight champion, died under anaesthetic in the operating theatre of St. Luke's Hospital at 4 am, today. The youthful Russian boxer, who would have been nineteen years of age tomorrow, failed to revive consciousness despite all efforts of leading local physicians who found it necessary to operate.
Physicians at St. Luke's Hospital ordered an emergency operation after they found that the Russian youth from Shanghai was suffering from concussion of the brain.
Despite all their efforts 19 save his life, he died under the knife without coming out of his state of coma.
Death came several hours after Shelaeff had lost the most important Out of his campaign in the United States to George Salvadore, veteran Texan fighter, at the Dreamland Auditorium.
The husky Russian boy left the ring and walked downstairs to the showers unassisted. After taking a shower he entered his dressing room. He appeared to be normal. He started dressing, but before he had completed dressing he collapsed.
After preliminary medical examination, he was rushed to the San Francisco, Emergency Hospital, but was "transferred to St. Luke's Hospital when physicians said that his condition was serious and that he would probably have to undergo an immediate operation.
Doctors found blood pressing on Shelaeff's brain four inches above the right esr, it was reported. Shelaeff's seconds believed that the injury was the result of a previous fight.
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