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Show GOOD BOUT EXPECTED Butte to Sec Fast Battle ' in the Gardner-O'Keefc Fight. ; The Jimmy Gardner-Jack O'Keefe fight h!ch will take place in Butte Friday Right is attracting all kinds of attention all over the country. O'Keefe Is a great favorite In ttutte on account of his slash. . Ing battle with Billy Mellody last spring and Gardner has made lots of friends by his clever work since he has been in Cop-perville. Cop-perville. . " , O'Keefe lost the welter-weight championship champion-ship to Mellody in Chicago shortly after the accident to W'alcott put the black out of the fighting list forever, but after that battle he decided that he was fighting out of his class and as he can make 135 pounds he decided that he would not again get out of the light-weight class. Gardner can also fight below 135, but much prefers pre-fers the weight at which he meets JO'Keefe. 138 pounds. - Both bovs are clever and fast and mix- ' ers and Butte is going to see a better fight than any since the Nelson-Herrera contest. O'Keefe has always delivered the goods and the worst thing which -can be said about Jimmy Gardner is that he Is a brother of his brother. George. |