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Miller was born near Asheville, N.C., where his father operated the general store and where his uncle, Billy Messer, was police chief for many years. Messer later appeared in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel thinly disguised as Big Bill Messler. At 13, Miller, big enough to pass for 16, joined the Citizens' Military Training Camps, spent a month riding the Sixth Cavalry's well-trained mares in Georgia and practicing on the rifle range until he qualified as a sharpshooter...
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Fourteen men were taken to the Yale 'varsity crew training table yesterday. The men are: Capt Johnson, Smith, Treadway, Rogers, Dater, Cross, Longacre, Messler, Beard, Holcomb, Armstrong, Knapp, Skinner, and Brown. Lowndes, Grahain, and Sandford were dropped from the list of candidates. There will be no further thinning out until the Easter recess...
...candidates for the Yale 'varsity crew rowed on the harbor for the first time this, season on Thursday. The first crew rowed in the following order: Dater, stroke; Treadway, 7; Rogers, 6; Cross, 5; Longacre, 4; Messler, 3; Holcomb, 2; Beard...
...last year's crew, Johnson bow, Messler 2, Rogers 4, and Longacre 6, are at work. Goetchins, the only other man still in college who rowed last year, will not row this year. The other men trying are: Beard, Sanford, Cross, Treadway, Brown, Holcomb, Knapp, Smith, Skinner, Dater, Kinney, Price, Wade, Chadwick, and Lowndes...