Word: pelled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meteors rise and flare with no more suddenness than Racqueteer Huntington D. Sheldon. Last week he entered his first amateur championship racquets tournament. On Sunday, having trounced Clarence C. Pell three games to two, he was crowned champion...
...gold racquets bat which proclaims a man amateur racquets champion of the land has been handed back and forth between Clarence C. Pell and Stanley G. Mortimer ever since 1914. Last week, at the Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo, N. Y., Mr. Mortimer, who had the bat last year, had to admit that Mr. Pell's traditionally terrific service was more terrific than ever. To Mr. Pell went match, bat and title...
...spread to Manchuria, last week,-a development of gravest international consequence, since Manchuria contains many Japanese colonists. Swarming up from Nanking, the South Chinese armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were on the verge of capturing Peking from North China Dictator Chang Tso-lin, whom they expected to drive pell mell into Manchuria. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Government sent duplicate stiff notes of warning to both Chinese factions, last week, thus...
...brilliant lanterns and gay banners, and all students who had rooms on the quadrangle were ordered to light their lights at dark. The hits of the evening were a rendition of "Daddy Longlegs," a Hawaiian trio composed of J. A. Patterson '19, B. A. Jenkins '19, and H. H. Pell '19, and the "Anvil Chorus" of the Freshman Glee Club. Smith Halls won the interdormitory singing laurels...
...courts flew small hard balls. Smashing and coaxing them with long slim implements like attenuated tennis racquets U. S. notables and sturdy Britishers played for the International Racquets Trophy. The doubles were divided. Singles went one match to Britain, one to U. S. Into the court strode Clarence C. Pell, U. S. champion, to serve and smash and nurse his shots against J. C. F. Simpson, best of British players. Mr. Pell, playing the greatest game of his eventful racquet history, beat Mr. Simpson three straight games. U. S. took the trophy, 3-2, and the players packed their racquets...