The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-22
JEWISH CIANT MAKESA1 STAND AGAINST LOUIS
Abe Simon Stopped in l3 Rounds But Earns An-
 other Chance :,
BY JACK CUDDY

bx JACM VUDDI
 United Press Staff Correspondent
 Detroit, March 22. - (UP)-Abt Simon, the human tank, will again test his armor plate against Jos Louis laundering guns at Madison Square Garden, New York, May 16.
 Promoter Mike Jacobs delightedly announced this return title match after big Abe's amazing showing last night against the heavyweight champion before sell-out crowd of 18,908 fans in Olympia Stadium.
 More than 5000 late arrivals ir1 the record breaking indoor Detroit throng were turned away from the Olympia. This was unfortunate because they missed the spectacle of lifetime. The New York giant upset all predictions and battled with Louis until the 18th round when Bomber Joe finally won 8 technical knockout.
 The bout was scheduled for 20 rounds, and at the end of the 10th it seemed 1t might go the distance. Simon, who had been vastly under rated, shed most of Louis blows in true tank fashion, all the while humping the champions face with wagon-tongue left jab that had Joe's left eye almost closed in the later stages of his 18th crown dee fense.
 Down And Up
 Simon, who never had been knocked off his feet before, hit the canvas four times and was belted half through the ropes once. But he was on his feet at the end, though staggering about helplessly with blood dripping from gashes in both brows and from cuts on nose and mouth. Referee Sam Hennessey stopped 1t then, at 1:20 of the 18th round.
 Experts at the ringside unanim- ously declared that this Jewish giant is..a far better fighter than was ponderous Primo Camera of Italy, former heavyweight cham pion -- even when "Da Pree1n" was at his peak. Louis knocked out Camera in the sixth round back in 1885. p
 Simon, packing 234 1-2 pounds OH @ six-foot four-inch tower, was top- pied in the first round by straight right to the whiskers. Little" Joe, scaling only POP pounds, looked in credulous when the big fellow rose at the count of one.
 Joe said. in his dressing room af- forwards, "T knew I was in for trouble. when I saw him get up that first time, because I really sinacked him good"
 Abe went down for nine in the third round, and he took two 11ine counts in the 18th before Referee Hennessey intevened. But Simon was doing some smack. ing of his own. He won the sec ond, sixth and 10th rounds, on tlld United Press score sheet, and fought on even terms in the fourth and eighth. One of the two judges, Dad Butler, gave Simon the 10th round and scored eight others as even. The referee gave Simon two and oil0 even. Judge Frank Neville gavd Simon four rounds and one even.
 Louis absorbed more punishment than in any bout since he was knocked out by Max Sclameling. Al the close of the seventh round. for example - the session in which big Abe was knocked half through the ropes - Simon rallied and, just before the bell, nailed Joe with left hook that had the champion stag gering and shaking his head as he went to his corner.
 Laughed It Off
 The goofiest moment of the bolx6 was in the third round when Louis clipped the challenger with left hook on the chin. simon shook his huge head as if in disbelief that anyone could hit so hard. He said. "Oh! Oh-!" Then Louis nailed him with a right to the button and big Abe sat down - hard-on the canvas. He remained seated, grim ming his best Boris Karloff grin at the ringsiders as if the whole thing was great joke. He got up at nine, still grinning.
 In the 18th. left hook stunned him, then right to the chin put him on his back. Up at nine. an- other right floored him. Helpless when he rose again at nine, 8 left and right to the chin rocked him and he turned away from the cham pion and crazily started Strolling along the ropes toward his own corner. That's when the Referee stepped in. Simon and his man. ger, Jimmy Johnston, said he wasn't hurt and that the fight should not have been stopped. They were wrong.
 The gross gate was $56,605. Jacobs says the return bout will draw a lot more at Madison Square Garden. Meanwhile, Louis defends his title against Tony Musto at St. Louis. April 8. Other commitments are with Billy Conn in June, with Bob Pastor at Los Angeles on July IA, and with the Maxie Baer-Lou Nova winner in September. A tuna fish weighing several hun