He played his domestic league debut on 18 February 1923 and scored his first goal for the club during the same game as Basel defeated Luzern 2–0.
[2] Against the same team, nearly one year later on 10 November 1929, in the same stadium, Schlecht scored four goals in the game that Basel won 5–1.
[3] A well-documented curiosity was that at the end of Basel's 1929–30 season, the team set off on a Scandinavian football tour, including a visit to Germany.
The journey started with a train ride on 2 June 1930 at quarter past seven in the morning from Basel and they arrived in Leipzig at half passed eight that evening.
Schecht ended his voyage early, however, and returned home after the game against SK Brann because his employer had only granted him two weeks holidays.
However, shortly before the end of the match referee Hans Wüthrich did not blow his whistle and award a penalty after an alleged handball by a Basel player.
It was some eight hours before things were settled enough for the police to able to bring both the referee and the entire Basel team to safety, by ship over Lake Lugano.
[5] Josef Remay had a bleeding head, Hermann Enderlin had a hole above his eye, Leopold Kielholz and goalkeeper Paul Blumer were also hurt.