Leslie (Wildcat) Carter vs. Doc Snell (1st meeting)
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Doc Snell 127 lbs beat Leslie Wildcat Carter 126 lbs by UD in round 6 of 6
- Date: 1927-01-01
- Location: Greenwich Coliseum, Tacoma, Washington, USA
- Pacific Coast Featherweight Title
- Attendance: 4,000
- Promoter: Johnny Pepe
- Inaugural card of the brand-new Greenwich Coliseum at 13th & South Market Streets.
- This was the first of eight bouts between these two popular Northwest boxers.
- According to the Wenatchee Daily World newspaper, promoter Pepe had guaranteed Carter $2,000 to appear--a record sum for a Pacific Northwest boxer.
Doc Snell gave Wildcat Carter "the beating of his young life." He pummeled Carter at close range with stinging rights and lefts. He hit Carter "with everything but the water bucket." "Snell landed punch after punch, and it looked each time as if the next would be the last, but Carter's gameness kept him going and the bell found him still on his feet." Everett Daily Herald