Chet Neff

Name: Chet Neff
Birth Name: Chester Clarence Neff
Hometown: Seattle, Washington, USA
Birthplace: Bremen, Indiana, USA
Died: 1957-07-30 (Age:63)
Height: 173cm
Pro Boxer: Record

Division: Lightweight
Manager: Dan Salt
Autographed photo

According to the October 20, 1914 Seattle Star [1], Chet Neff had been born in Bremen, Indiana, February 17, 1896 (not 1894) to French-American parents. He had lived in Seattle for about five years and began boxing professionally in 1912.

Neff was a Bellingham, Washington, baker during his early boxing career. He eventually had some 175-plus documented career bouts.

Apparently local fight fans didn't care for his style of mixing, according to some newspaper accounts of the day. The Seattle Star opined that perhaps it was because he was a Dan Salt client, and Salt's partner was Lonnie Austin--who staged and refereed many of Neff's Seattle fights. [2]

By February 1917 he was a member of the Washington Naval Militia. [3]

He moved from the Puget Sound area to Los Angeles, California by the summer of 1920, where he died in 1957.

According to the U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 database on Ancestry.com, one Chester Clarence Neff had a cauliflower right ear and an inch-long scar on his left eye in addition to being 5 feet, 8 inches tall.

Neff's Fight Record was researched by Ric Kilmer, Charles Johnston, and Matt Tegen--all Members of the International Boxing Research Organization & BoxRec Editors.