Boxing did itself proud in the War Bond show in Madison Square Garden, in which Pvt. Beau Jack, the Georgia Buzz Saw, gained the decision over Pvt. Bob Montegomery of Philadelphia, holder of the lightweight crown via New York. (The match was a non-title bout.) The two soldiers, granted a furlough to participate in the show as its headliners, left the arena beaming with joy, for they had set a world's record for gate receipts with a grand total of $35,864,900 in war bonds purchased by 15, 882 persons.

The cheers that greeted these young warriors will long be remembered by them for they came mostly, not from the usual everyday fight fan who is a regular attendant at Garden shows, but by a mixed assembly of which more than half were service men and women, with almost a thousand recent arrivals from the battlefields of France and Italy. The were the guests of those who had purchased bonds and had turned in the tickets which went with each sale for use by some wounded person of the armed forces.

...It was a proud night for ring men, a glorious night for Mike Jacobs, whose untiring efforts brought about the success of the show, with prices of admission ranging from a $25.00 war bond to a $100,000 bond for a ringshide seat in the first row. Every one of these seats was sold and each was contributed to a wearer of the Purple Heart just returned from the scene of much more bloodly action than the Garden fight produced.

-Nat Fleischer. The Ring. October, 1944(1)

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(1) The Ring. October, 1944. Nat Fleischer says: pp 18