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Show II Referee For Labor Day f 1 Bout to be Named Today I Dempsey Will Tip Scales at 187 Pounds on Day of Fight; J Newswriters From All Section of the United States -: -sILw at Scene of Battle; Hotels Boost 1 jfj Rates at Benton Harbor I. BENTmN HARBOR, .Mich. Sept 4 'fflclal announcement as to the referee re-feree of the ten round bout here Mn-dav Mn-dav afternoon between Jack Dempsey world's heavyweight champion, and Hilly Mlske. challenger, was expected toda with Iho scheduled arrival of Jack Roddy, Mlskc's manager. Indications seemed favorable to th'- " selection of Jim Daugherty of Phi la - delplu.i, a personal friend of Dempsey and bis manager, Jack Kearns.. hut . s- 6fflcial announcement was withheld pending the arrival of Redd) from fpmr ' ' k'eland P.eddy Indicated there last (OK niRhi that hr might oppose the se- IfllK lection of Duughertv and request thnt HI: a Michigan man be chosen JWgV- Although Dempsey and Mlske fln- JTfRt: Sshed their hard training yesterday, HJB they will continue to work In public nP; this afternoon and tomorrow to Ratlsf , "it the big crowds that have lammed the K 9 "3 training camps Both are satisfied' S . they have reached the peak of their j3 f form and will do nothing to take the mf edge off l)OKs PIT Dempsey looks ready and sa eager for Ihe battle. fV 'I .mi as fit now as I was for Wil- jflfl v lard, tl-r clian:pl..n s:d I ( I i- If i f l-w 1 could box fifty rounds at top spi i d pi The ruddy-cheeked Mlske Is winding fM&flgS up his training supremely confident TTBP that he will hold the champion even every round and that Dempsey will not knock him out. The challenger is not carrying an ounce of superfluous flesh on his huge frame. He Is finelv trained to lOO pounds of bono and m uscle. Dempsey. 'efore his workout es-trnlrt, es-trnlrt, scaled 189 pounds, which n taken to indicate, experts. Bay, that he will enter the ring weighing about 1 S 7 the same weiRht he fought Jess Wll-Inrd Wll-Inrd at Toledo fourteen months ago tod:, . R VISE PRICES The twin resort cities of Henton Harbor and st Joseph are rapidly fin-lnn fin-lnn up with fight fans. Some hotel and rooming houses already nre quartering quar-tering thre.- and four persons in a room There ha.s been a slight advance in restaurant prices, but Mayor Koseback has Issu'-d a warning not to profit'-er. Hconis in private homes, however, brought $8 per day and up. Hotel reservations are not available. There w-cro seventy-five newspaper correspondents here this morning and others werf expected before night New York and San FranclBCO will be represent- J b a dozen writer. at the! ringside With not enough telegraph wires available at th arena, long distance dis-tance telephones will be used b some correspondents to send their stories of the contest |