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Show O'Keefe and Stift Are Hard at Work Many Call ot the Quarters nnd Wutch the Two Men Spar. Jack O'Keefe nnd Hilly Stiff put In a hard day s work yesterday tAlllnrd Bean's trnln-Ing trnln-Ing cpiartej-s. St I ft went at It both In tho morning nnd nf tern, .on. and when he finished the day he was Just ten pounds llgh'er by actual weight. in the afternoon ho and O'Keefe went at it for three fierce rounds, uttlng loose nnd hammering In ns If In the prize-ring Purine the Intermissions between rounds Prof. RArlello and O'KeefS mixed matters, mat-ters, and when the clever llghtWSlghl finished fin-ished hl afternoon woik the sweat was fairly rolling off him. O'Keefe Is fortunate In having ftlft for a bOXlhg partner, for. although others uiny bo U ti.-r at tie- Ram.- few by expeilenc know-more know-more about It Th.-n. too. h Is n go.nl punching-bag, and this gives Jaick a chunco to cut loose frvfjuently. Many of tho-ie who watched Jimmy Gardner Gard-ner In his work hero Inst week turned out yesterday and took a good look at O'Keefe Tho records of Ix.th man oj so remarkable that they offer little consolation to the man who I putting tip money, and consequently most bnts will be made on th showings made bv them liKhtw'.Khts while training. Pr,,m riOW OH until next Monday evening there will lus some lively belting a to tho outcomo of this flerco bottle. Slg Hart, manager of Jack O'Keefe, who trill meet Jimmy Gardner at the saucer on June 12, tells a funny story on Mr. prptage, While I had Jack up In Portland " ssld Sk-. "and was rounding him Into shapo for hN tight with Jimmy Brttt, O'Keefe did constant rood work. The first .lav he came back with a horseshoe he had picked up on the read 1 aske.i him why ho wanted to carry excess ex-cess weight Ilk- that and he naturnlly remarked re-marked thut to llnd a horseshoe vas gOOO 'u(,k- J , ,.v "Well the noxl day h camo back with another, and then an Idea struck me I hunted up Jack Grant, wh. was running ih. club where he whs to fight, and suggested that we hvo a little fun ai O'Keefe s expense. ex-pense. He consented, providing It was harmless, harm-less, und so we got u buggy lbs next morning morn-ing and drove to a blacksmith shop and leaded up with old horseshoes Of course. I knew the road that Jimmy took, and so we drov oc-r It, dropping horseshoe about ever) half-block. half-block. Then WB came back to camp and awnltc-.l development- " It took O'Keefe a long while to make bin round thut morning, and when he came back b( hud a whole armful of shoes Ho looked very happy and was sweating Hko o otoer Wi aeke.l him where he got thorn, and he told how. with an ?aglo eye ho had rottel them out In tho dusty rood Again, with special emphasis we told him that he was 1 ra; to carry excess w.-igm like that, and adVlasd hlrn n..l to stop In his morning jaunts to pick up eld Iron. But he was gleeful I,-. .r and maintained that horseshoes Sre sure signs of good luck I guess h.- to right, for when ho met Hrltt he beat him to a fiBZ-.l-, and he Is the only person who ever did beat uritt Bometlmes I think that tbs horseshoes had something to do with II Brltt swears they did, and says that .Tack's g;. .'.-- must have padded with them |