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...Germantown, Pa., son of a rector, descendant of Capt. Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. He attended Germantown Academy, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge, Mass.). He occupied several parishes in Massachusetts and Connecticut, married (1908) Edith Dean Weir, violin-playing and painting daughter of onetime Dean John Ferguson Weir of the School of Fine Arts, Yale University. He is president of the trustees of St. George's School, Newport, R. I. At his summer home in Princeton, Mass, he plays tennis, tends a garden, fells trees. Firm...
Score--Harvard Freshmen 30, New Hampton 29. Goals--Hageman 6. Matursevitch 3, Davidson 2, Reisner 2, Bowes 4, Hamilton 4, Henriques 4, Fouls--Matursevitch 2, Hageman, Relaner, Bowler 3, Bowes, Henriques, Referee--Kelley. Timekeeper--Weir. Time--Four 10-minute periods...
Elected. Ernest Tener Weir, president of Weirton (W. Va.) Steel Co.; to be board chairman of National Steel Co., a combination of Weirton Steel Co., Great Lakes Steel Corp. and subsidiaries of M. A. Hanna Co. of Cleveland...
...Reginald Weir and Gerald Norman Jr. did not play in last week's national junior indoor tennis championship. Their applications were rejected without explanation by U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. That made the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People write a protest: "Unfair, unsportsmanlike . . .calculated to degrade the sport . . . spirit of caste and class snobbery. ..." Meanwhile, in a Manhattan armory the best white tennis players between 16 and 18 played for the championship, hitting the ball so that the shots boomed like explosions. Boys under 16 played for the boy's title, tapping their shots back...
...congressman and member of the advisory committee on zoning of the Department of Commerce in 1922, will lecture, as will Harland Bartholomew, prominent city planner. Alfred Bettman, Cincinnati lawyer and city planner; Charles W. Eliot, II, a member of the Capitol Park and Playground Commission in Washington; L. H. Weir, member of the Park, Playground, and Recreation Association of America; and Theodore K. Hubbard, honorary librarian of the American City Planning Institute, complete the list of prominent lecturers...