Medicine: Doctors on Sport

Wiry, 22-year-old Charles Mohr was probably the finest collegiate boxer in the U.S.A University of Wisconsin senior Mohr was the 1959 intercollegiate champion at 165 Ibs., having won 23 fights and lost only five over a four-year period. Last April 9 at Madison, heavily favored to retain his title, he stepped into the ring against San Jose State's Stu Bartell. Minutes later, Boxer Mohr was in a deep coma from an intracranial hemorrhage following a moderate blow to the head. Eight days after the bout, without regaining consciousness, he died.

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