Leonta Horace "Onty" Beer (11February 190312January 1966) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby & Main (2014), p.57.
Family The son of Arthur Wills Beer (1856–1925),Deaths: Beer, The Age, (Thursday, 3 December 1925), p.1. and Rose Edith Beer (1863–1929), née Newman, Leonta Horace Beer was born at Townsville, Queensland on 11 February 1903 known as "Onty" (sometimes "Ontie"), he was named "Leonta" after the devastating 1903 Townsville cyclone, identified as such by the Queensland State Government meteorologist C.L. Wragge.'Fair Play', "Captain of Williamstown: Record of "Onty" Beer", The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 12 May 1928), p.6."Leonta" at Townsville, The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, (Wednesday, 11 March 1903), p.6.
He married Isabella Ivy Brown (1900–1949) in 1922.Deaths: Beer, The Age, (Saturday, 5 November 1949), p.2.
Football Yarraville (MJFA) Yarraville Wins Again, The (Footscray) Independent, (Saturday, 12 June 1920), p.1.
South Melbourne (VFL) Melbourne v. S. Melb., The Herald, (Saturday, 28 May 1921), p.2.
Williamstown (VFA) Having tried out with Footscray in the preseason,The Association: Footscray Activities, The Age, (Monday, 7 April 1924), p.6. he played his first game for Williamstown, against Hawthorn on 7 June 1924.Football Notes, The Williamstown Chronicle, (Saturday, 14 June 1924), p.3.Black, J.T., "Williamstown Coach" (letter to the Editor), The Williamstown Chronicle, (Saturday, 1 September 1928), p.2.
Yarraville (VFA) New Management: Changes at Yarravile, The Herald, (Friday, 5 April 1929), p.14.Victorian Football Teams: No.17 — Yarraville, The Australasian, (Saturday, 24 August 1929), p.76.
Notes
References Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014), The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.), Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing.
External links
Leon "Monty" Beer, at The VFA Project. "Beer, _Yville29", at The VFA Project.