Evening star., 1947-02-27
Coast Guard Ringmen
OF Past viii Watch
Academy Box {. u.
By Lewis r. Atehison

Two peeps on q bosun's whistle
will bring more fighting men to your
side at Catholic u. Saturday night
than Gen. Hershey could marshal
In a baleful Of draft notices. The
Coast Guard Academy boxers meet
the Cardinals that night and alumni
stationed here have reserved $50
seats behind the academy bench to
lend their moral support. Not all
are ex-Coast Guard fighters, but you
could scare up q pretty good team
on short notice.
Comdr. Christopher Knapp, .
lightweight, vintage of 1930-31, tops
the list in seniority. But the fight
in'est man of them all is 1t. Mark
Mccarthy, two years Eastern Inter-
collegiate 155-pound champion. We
have Comdr. Knapp's word for 1t
that Mccarthy would have won the
crown a third time If they hadn't
shipped him of to war in 1912, six
months ahead Of time.
Academy fans also will remember
1t. Ken Potts, a lightweight, and
Its. Lusk and Erich, 146 and 1855,
respectively, of the 1910 team. 1t.
Comdr. Frank Helmer was a yht-
weight In 1885, and 1t. Comdr F alph
West fought 1865 on the '39 squad.
1t. Conadr. Morrison was 100
FOUNDER on the same team, but you
wouldn't know 1t now. They haven't
the time or inclination to put on the
gloves since casting off from New
London, but Comdr. Knapp thinks
they still could take good care Of
themselves in an emergency.
The commander and his associates
secuted Catholic U. and Maryland
for their alma mater and although
the Terps sunk the Guardsmen by
point he predicts the academy will
whip C.. U. It should be close, he
comedies, but the c. G. will win.
Well have to wait for the rebuttal
from M. Eddie La Fond's pupils.
Clark Shaughnessy has scheduled
q football clinic at Atlantic City
the first week in April and his staff
includes Wilbur Moore and Wayne
Millner of the Redskins, Frank
Ieahy Of Notre Dame, Sid Luckman
of Chicago Bears, Joe Stydahar Of
the Los Angeles Rams and Vic Lind
skog of the Eagles. You get one
guess whether they'll talk about the
T formation.
Speaking of Moore, more than one
observer thinks the new Baltimore
club missed bet in not going after
him for its coach. Around the wig
wan they say "Old Bones" knows
more about the r and any other
kind of football you want to discuss
than the guy who wrote the book.
His biggest asset, however, was a
seventh sense that put him where
he should be at the right time, a
great competitive spirit and a love
of the game that laughed at such
trifles as broken collar bones, frac-
tured vertebrae, etc. Those things
you can't teach-even at a clinic.
Even II the harness racing bill
now before the Maryland Legislature
is not passed, William E. Miller
expects to have some trotters shoot
ing for the Goshen pot O. gold in
August. Work on the track stopped
like one of Bing Crosby's gluepots
when the snow came along, but will
be resumed when, and II, the legisla-
ture springs the barrier.
AS for his chances at Goshen,
Miller isn't making any predictions.
"They all look good right now"
he said, 'but I'm not going to try
and tell you what they'll do couple
of months from now"
Johnny Miller, his son and part
ner in the thriving furniture busi-
ness, probably would have preferred
to own baseball or football team,
but the old gentlemen want no
parts of either.
IT had a baseball team once, you
know" he said, referring to the
Miller Furniture team that domi-
mated senior sandlot ranks in the
early 30s. "But first they were up
and then they went down and when
they hit bottom I lost interest in
them"
Johnny, or Mouse" as he was
known, played the outfield and later
played at the University of Mary
land.
Three years ago-Sam Byrd
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