Word: merion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tallest is Bill Hook, a 6 foot, 3 inch center from Lower Merion High. Then there is Henry Solaliac, star of last year's freshman quintet, a 6 foot, 2 inch athlete with plenty of experience. Sid Levinson, from Rochester, Walter Reinhard, formerly of Weequahic High, Newark; and John Townsend, of Friends Central, Philadelphia, also are being counted on to lift the Quaker court fortunes. There are, as well, Gene Davis, the sophomore foot-baller; Ray Frick, football captain-elect: Johnny Dutcher, who also played football; Eugene Weisberg and George Dietrick. Reserves from the 1939 team include Tony Caputo...
...because of "distinguished service to the Empire") looking on,* a new generation of Davis Cuppers from Down Under challenged a new generation of U. S. Davis Cuppers in a war-clouded spectacle that promised to be as dramatic as the one 25 years ago. In the stands at the Merion Cricket Club at Haverford, Pa., grave-faced tennis fans gathered for the opening matches of the threeday, best-of-five series, wondered if this was to be the last Davis Cup contest they would ever see. German troops were already slogging through Poland, another World War was only...
...Merion courts last week saw no such titanic struggle as the never-to-be-forgotten Brookes-McLoughlin match of 1914, in which the American beat the Australian 17-15 in the first set. What last week's matches lacked in suspense, however, they made up for in surprise...
...came up, someone usually said it was one of famed U. S. Songwriter Stephen Foster's (Swanee River, Oh! Susanna! etc.). Fame never caught up with black Songwriter Bland, but death did: in 1911 he was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave in a corner of Merion, Pa.'s scrubby little Negro cemetery...
...bent, white-haired mathematics professor, Dr. Kelly Miller, who told him that Bland had been survived by two sisters. One of them, a seamstress, thought she remembered where Bland had been buried and the number on his gravestone. Two months ago, after poking about among the headstones in Merion's old cemetery, Publisher Cooke found Bland's grave: a small mound covered with weeds and poison...