Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1920 — GUNBOAT SMITH IS SLIPPING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GUNBOAT SMITH IS SLIPPING

Confesses That Poor Eyesight Affects Judgment of Distance—Farmer Defeats Him. Gunboat Smith, who recently returned to San Francisco following his defeat In Seattle at the hands of Frank Farmer, says it’s the ol’ eye that has gone back on him. He says: “I can hit as hard as ever I could.

I know more about the game than when I was knocking ’em all out, but the judgment of distance —it isn’t there.” The gunner was to have boxed a second match in the Northwest, but his defeat spoiled that plan.

Gunboat Smith.