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Show CONFERENCE HELD ON REFEREE Willard Allows His Sparring Partners to Hit Him in the Stomach TOLPDO. Ohio, Judo 24 - Tei Rick-frd, Rick-frd, promoter of the heavywelh' chani)itn.ship contest between Willard iand Uempsey July 4, tonight met with ; Willard and Jack Kearas, manager of 'the challenger, and officials of the 'army, navy and civilian board f box-ling box-ling control in an effort to Bolve iho 'problem of selecting a referee. W. A. Gavin, a member of the i x 'ecutive committee of ihe board, and Adam Empl secretary', profess to be-llieve be-llieve the situation Is not a serious one and that, the question would be set-1 set-1 tied within two or three day?.. : Various reports were current tonight I that Willard had declared that he would accept Rickard as referee and :no one else. Another report was lhat t Kearns would insist upon plther Jack Welsh of San Francisco or BUI Brown of New York. Willard is opposed to the plan of having two judges in addition addi-tion to a referee. Twenty-three hundred pprsons prid twenty-five cents each today to visit the chnllenRcr'T camp in anticipation of seeing him flatten out his spurring spur-ring partners. Sergeant Bill Tate who was knocked out yestprday, and i the Jamaica Kid, another negro sparging spar-ging mate, kept their chins out of harm's way. but both were considerably consider-ably shaken up Illard boxed ten exceedingly tam6 rounds and refrained from doing c.nv-thinp: c.nv-thinp: impressiv", although he worked in the ring for fifty-nine minutes. He continually stood flat footed and allowed al-lowed his tpamng mates to hit him in the stomach. John J. Relsler removed the last possible legal obstacle to the contort today when he announced he would not take his case against Dempse into court at this time. Relsler claims to have a con'ract to manage Derup-sey. |