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Show 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 it's perfectly legitimate, too. I don't hit my opponent with the heel of the glove, though it may look like that. I 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 world. Noth- Gunboat Smith. ing will 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 admirably. I call it the 'goat getter.' " |