The parties agreed beforehand that the referee would decide the verdict, but the crowd and Judges Roy Gray (Spokane) and Roy Madden (Yakima) did not know this. It was declared a draw by Referee Hoops. But there was such an uproar that Announcer E. K. Brown grabbed and consulted the judges' scorecards, then rushed over to raise Snell's hand. One of the finals of the Ellensburg Labor Day Rodeo Boxing Championship Tournament.
