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Show i DIDN'T COME TO BENTON HARBOR TO SET LICKED," SAYS MISKE 1 . i 1 ff,, I fj W ft & ' 1 When Jack Bcildjr called Billy !tfj ke over ib- long distance telephone. feu weeks ago, nittl idd ii.m :. Iu ' n matched nith IJcmpsev, the st. Paul heavywolghl Bmllcd t loud ih d I claims he actually hoard it. , Mlake Is still smlUng at Benton Harb r. BY DEAN SNYM R. BENTON kAKBOR Mich. Aug. 31. Billy llUske didn't come to Benton Ben-ton harbor to take a licking and pick! oil the loner's end of a purse. Lurking in his head is the glimmering glimmer-ing hope that ho may knock himself, into a title on Labor Day. He Is confident con-fident of Staying the 10 rounds with .lack Dempsey because he has ddnc so twice before, once at St. Paul, and1 tin- other time at Philadelphia. That WAS back ih 1913. As is the case v.ith all contenders, i who meet champions, tie is taking a gambling- chant i that at some moment in the tight his big opportunity will eome and the dope will be reversed In his favor. PATH or LESSONS His two lessons from Dempsey have1 SBI Thro arc bOSJf lns fur Bill? SdJtkC as he trains for his Ibor Pay IboiU with Jack Dempsey. Pictures . layout sliow him v Bub Dor- roan's 'anir-ra found him In training rpp ;'i Benton Harbor. LTpper lef j t Rowing ioat i ppw l ight G t ng read to u a sparring partner. , Itovn r Insert Jogging alone; orer Michigan road, with hK trainer, ike Bern-stein. g.ven him confidence for hr stoo.l thcl gaff in both a thing that few others hae done B3lskeS new found health Is the chief buzz of conversation at his train-j lng stand The camp is located three-; , quarters of a mile up the load from . t;.- pattle arena where Dempsey is j banging away at Bill Tato and ' 'Pan- , amii" Jo- Qans. n is the same layout n where Ohampion Benny Leonard pie- , pared for his fight with Charlie White.' I It 1S l.N MI.UH, Ike Bernstein' Mlske's tialner, is in ! charge. There It a splenrl.dly eulp- 1 ped gym. The ring Is staked off beneath be-neath the shade or thickly follaged ' trees, for which Michigan is famous 1 keeping spurring parlners, who can, give him any kind of a workout. Is1 hlr chief problem. There IS B uhole ; flock of them there to work on, but!) none of them hardly measure up to : the mark. Jack Hejneu, an ex-gob, I nnd the biggest of Ihe lot. usually gets I floored two or three limes dally. Heln-,1 en was in Wlllard's tamp nt Toledo and he has boxed Jack Johnson. Hej says that Miske Is the new Stanley il Ketchel with the combined punch ofi. J; ck Johnson and Jess Wlllard. l TOiAR BEADG1 Ul Mhke makes ., pood appearance ill his workouts. Wearlpg a padded head-! tear he bounces into the ring like a trht-welght and begins to sock. If he fights thai way otl 1,'ibor Day Demp-ey Demp-ey s going to be botii surprised and td ased. The champion has it figured ut that Miske is going to "pull and Itaol" when the labor Day dlngdongi ;omes off. Miske is the picture of health now. He has had a slight kink in his spine ;nrc boyhood. It has handicapped his ing career In the past. Recently St Paul specialists Jiggled the trouble-j 'ome misplaced cartilage back into its lormal position. N INCH I l l i I : "Billy hasn't really grown since then is some have believed." snys Jack Eteddy, Mlske's manager "He is now I tide to -.tand et ect und i! has increased j is stature about an Inch. Also he ias gained about 20 pounds In weight j lo Is a living testimony of the ohiro-i incite treatment for spinal trouble." When Miske boed Dempsey nt St. ; Faui he weighed 178 pounds and 1 76 i2 ! it Philadelphia. There Is no question) u'. that the Miske of two years agoj nnd the Mi-ke of today are very different dif-ferent Individuals. SO PEARS NOW. He does not deny that he begged cut of the proposed war benefit bout in New York City during the war "I, was sick at the time." he says, "and krte"v that Dempsey would certainly cer-tainly knock me out. It would have hurt my entire career as a boxer and I felt that 1 was Justified in not going on with him at that time. It's different dif-ferent now. I didn't come to Benton Harbor to ret licked." Miske smiled as he thought of all thr tilings that a crown would mean lo him. ILL H 1VE BACKERS. He'll have his supporters when he climbs la the ring on Labor Day. His friends dope It that lie Is a new Miske. tnat he has stayed on hi3 feet twice against the Salt Dake slammer r.nd that the long layoff of the champion is In t'uvor of the conteudci . Most of the bookings will be stay bets and various forms of wagers on n knockout None would hardly take the hazard that the title will change h nds. Miske and his friends do not think he is going to be toppled on Labor Day, So between now and then he is training with a happy heart amid an atmosphere of confidence and hope-2-mucli the same that pre ailed in the Dempsey camp at Toledo 14 months ago. I |