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SIMON ASTOUNDS CRITICS

...................................................* P.I. BOXER IN WORLD

CHAMPION HIT AND HURT FOR 13 GOOD ROUNDS

RELENTLESSLY PUNISHING his big, youthful foe with murderous' blows, Joe Louis, world heavy- weight champion recently successfully defended his title for the 15th time by scoring a technical knock- out over Abe-Simon of New York in the 13th round of a title bout set for 20 rounds at the Olympia Sta- dium, cables Jack Cuddy from Detroit.

more,

Battered and bleeding after providing the champion with the most serious opposition since the Brown Bomber was knocked out by Max-Schmeling in 1936, Abe Simon was saved from complete slaugh- ter by Referee Sam Hennessey, who halted the bout.

Simon, heavily punished, was well and came back for sent crashing to the canvas twice mixing it constantly with Louis. in the fatal 13th round before the United Press. referee halted the fight, The big New York youth was gume, but he was

too weak and groggy to oppose Louis who was bent on making a kill in the 13th round and the referee wisely stopped the bout one minute 20 seconds after the start of the round.

To Meet Again

But in astounding the boxing world by lasting as long as he did, Simon earned the right to meet the "invincible" negro again on May. 16.

Mike Jacobs, outstanding box- ing promoter, immediately after the fight announced that Louis and Simon would clash in a return bout in New York's Madison Square Garden on May 16. The return fight would be set for ff- teen rounds, he said.

Nineteen thousand spectators, a record indoor crowd for Detroit, were flabbergasted as the young New York Hebrew held his own with Louis for a good part of the fight.

The spectators came to see an- other speedy "execution" by Louis, but stayed to see a young boxer, who only recently climbed into

the first ten top heavyweights, hit and hurt Louis and not for a few rounds but for 13 frames.

"Man-Mountain”

Known as "Man-Mountain" be... cause of his size, Simon showed no fear and he waded into his heavy-hitting opponent from the

start.

But Louis-was-too:crafty and fast for his powerful foe. Twice before the “unlucky" 13th, Simon ran into deadly blows and Sprawied оп the canvas for counts. At one time he nearly landed in the press row as Louis hit him a terrific blow and ho went half-way through the ropes.

But despite the sledge-hammer blows which he took, Simon wea- thered the punishment remarkably

K.C.C. Teams

Kowloon Cricket Club senior team will play their last League cricket match on Saturday; against Civil Service C.C. D. Hung will be back from Shang- hai in time to play.

The team is: E. C. Fincher, N. D. Lloyd, D. J. N. Anderson, A. Zimmern, F. R. Zimmern, E. F. Fincher, D: Hung, R. E. Lee, FJ. Lay, R. T. Broadbridge and N. A. E. Mackay. Umpire J. P. Robinson; Scorer T. M. Carr,

The second eleven, who were unable to finish their match against Civil Service juniors on Saturday, will try to reach a de- cision this. Saturday and will travel to Happy Valley for that purpose, Their team-will-be- 8. A. Gray, TAK Madar, K.-M. Baxter, E. Curtis, W. L. Rapley, R. J. Fenton, H. Brokenshire, G. E. Taylor, W. C. Hung, G. A. Goodban and F. Goodwin. Um- pire, R. Leigh; Scorer and reserve, LR Burch.

STANFORD MAY TAKE UP CREW

After a lapse of 18 years, the famous American Stanford. Uni- versity is considering resumption, of intercollegiate crew racing. have been scheduled for the sport, which has not hadí nancial'. assistance. from: ity authorities. Students Tattheilriven"them by rafty, dif: Galfoxnda; four

Volunteer coaches,

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GOLFING BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS

Winston Churchill is the sixth of a list of British Prime Minis- ters who have been golfers. Others were Lord Balfour, Lord Ox- ford, Lloyd George, Bonar Law and Ram- say MacDonald. Law's handicap was only five.

As a matter

of course-

RANKING

Little Dado of

NBA made note of the fact that this was "the first time in many the years that Henry Armstrong and Lou Ambers were missing In the

Philippines is king of all the flyweights. That was the opinion of the Na- tional Boxing Association

rankings. Both fighters retired. series of defeats recently.

from the ring after suffering a

Kui Kong of Honolulu was rated a logical contender for the

in its annual ranking bantamweight title.—United Press,

issued recently.

Anton

̈“NBA announced that there was no logical challenger to the heavy- weight title held by Joe Louis, but it listed a group of "outstanding contenders," including Billy Conn, The new NBA ranking follows: Heavyweight-Joe Louis. Light - heavyweight Christophordis.

-Middleweight-Tony Zale. Walterweight-Fritzie Zivic. Lightweight-Sammy Angott. Featherweight-Pete Scalzo, Bantamweight-Lou Salica. Flyweight-Little Dado.

*SAINTS ENTERING

TWO TEAMS

“St. Andrew's Ladies are enter“. ing. two teams in the seven-a-. side hockey tournament on Satur- day and the teams, which: have not yet been nominated, will be chosen from the following: Miss J. Hall, Miss M. da Roza, Miss G.. White, Miss J, Wong, Miss P. Lang, Miss B. Greaves. Miss L. Cross, Mrs. Wilson, Miss G. Darby, Mrs. A. Zimmern, Miss. M. Churn, Miss B. Fitzgerald, Miss H. May and Miss F. Wong.

PLAYER'S

PLEASE

"It's the Tobacco that

Counts