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...ARTHUR PELL...
Directors include: Francis E. Storer '07, James Coggeshall '18, John P. Howland '28, Clarence C. Pell '33, Paul De Give '34, Charles Brewer '09, Howard Reid '12, James E. Merrill '24, John Watts '28, Lionel C. Perera '31, G.B., J. Paschall Davis '30, Howard Elliott, Jr. '22, Malcolm Fooshee '21L, Edwin H. Heminway '15, and Ernest E. Smith...
...sent in his name for tournaments which few men would have had the temerity to enter before they had been playing the game five years or more. He won every tournament he entered with ridiculous ease: the Canadian singles championship, the Canadian and U. S. doubles championships (with Clarence Pell Jr.), the Tuxedo Gold Racquet tournament and the Racquets and Tennis Club championship. That he would acquire the U. S. championship as summarily as the others became apparent last week in the semi-finals when, in what most observers considered the most brilliant performance ever seen on the Racquets Club...
...Clarence C. Pell Jr., & Robert Grant III: the national racquets doubles championship, beating Edward Mitchell Edwards & Warren Ingersoll after 1 hr. 10 min. of play at the New York Racquet & Tennis Club, 12-15, 18-16, 15-11, 15-8. In the balcony, watching, was Pell's father, nine times national doubles champion (with Stanley Mortimer) eliminated this year in the semi-finals by his son's runners...
...held it until his death in 1935. Setzler, son of a Buffalo corset salesman, was apprenticed to his father's friend, George Standing, longtime New York Racquet Club professional, in 1920. Last year, at 31, he won the U. S.open championship against socialite experts like Clarence Pell, Stanley G. Mortimer, Huntington Sheldon. Milford won the British open and amateur championships last year. Setzler's victory last week was not conclusive. He and Milford play again in London next April. After their second match, the man who has won the most games becomes world champion until challenged and defeated...