January 9, 1942, was barely a month since Pearl Harbor was attacked and America was at war. But the walls of the Madison Square Garden arena in New York City resounded with a rather unseen cheer.

In Washington’s Griffith Stadium one night last week 25,000 fight fans yelled themselves limp. It was the first round of Washington’s first world-championship heavyweight fight, and there, hanging ...

In the hope of re-establishing its prestige as the foremost prizefight promoting concern in the U. S., what Madison Square Garden Corp. arranged last month was a fight between Jack Doyle and Jacob ...