Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1916 — GUNNER HAS A TEASING BLOW [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GUNNER HAS A TEASING BLOW

Flicks Opponent on Nose With Back Handslap Most Aggravating Punch to Heavyweights. Gunboat Smith merely chuckles when he hears the people criticize him for using a backhand rip in the clinches. During the Pelkey fight, the Gunner was “booed”' for flipping the heel of his glove upward against the nostrils of his opponent. “That’s one of the best little punches in the world.” laughed’ the Gunner, “and ft’s perfectly legitimate, too. I don't bit my opponent with the heel of the glove, though it may look like that. T just brush my knuckles up past his face, and it usually catches him under the nose. It doesn’t really do any damage, and yet it’s the most aggravating punch in the 1 world. Noth-

ing wffil cause a, big fellow to lose his head! so quickly* as that little upward flip under the nose. That’s why I use it, and I’ve found that it answers the- purpose I call it the ‘goat getter.”* **

Gunboat Smith.