Joe's 21st

For the 21st time since he won it from Jim Braddock in 1937, the incomparable Joe Louis successfully defended his title by knocking out vast (255 1/4 lb.) Abe Simon, who looks like a worried cigar-store Indian, in 0:16 of the sixth round last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Simon and his manager, James Joy Johnston, the aging Boy Bandit, screamed that the count was short; 18,220 fans screamed with delight. Joe turned his purse, estimated at $45,000, over to the Army Emergency Relief Fund. Promoter Mike Jacobs rewarded him with a dozen eating apples.

Joe had bought some $3,000 worth of tickets to the fight for his fellow privates at Fort Dix. Afterwards he told sportswriters that the only punch of Simon's that he felt landed on his hip. "I don't know if I will be able to march so good tomorrow," said Joe.

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