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Much of the credit for the racquet-men's spectacular rise is due Coach Harry Cowles. He has drilled his teams faithfully, and has always endeavored to keep a close eye on the outlook for good material. Proof of this may be found in that the Freshman squash team of the past year possesses a record which vies with the University...
...fare quite as well as the University team that year, but it closed its season with the loss of but one out of nine meets, and ten out of 45 matches. Last year's University record was still more impressive than that of the previous year. The racquet wielders, again under the leadership of Captain W. P. Dixon '25, began its second championship season with a spurt which carried them through their schedule without the loss of a single meet, and which netted them the state and national championship. This year, the team lost but three of 45 matches...
...past six years Clarence C. Pell of Manhattan has been the best racquets player in the U. S. Not only that, but he has been the best racquets player in England and Canada. He spends a good deal of time playing racquets here and there, and no man has been able to beat him for six years, although for at least twelve years a certain Stanley Mortimer has tried to do it in the finals of every racquets tournament. Last week the apparently permanent champion and the obviously perpetual runner-up faced each other in the Racquet and Tennis Club...
Died. Herbert Claibourne Pell. 73, distinguished descendant of the Pells of Pelham Manor (N. Y.), retired lawyer, father of Herbert Claibourne Pell Jr. (onetime Chairman of the N. Y. Democratic State Committee), and of Clarence C. Pell, famed U. S. racquet champion (see p. 35); at Manhattan, of apoplexy...
...Crimson lead-off man in the first round. Jackson won his way into the third round with a victory over E. E. O'Neil of the Harvard Club. The second member of the Crimson contingent to reach the third round was R. L. Debevoise '29, leader of the 1929 racquet swingers, who downed Carl Pfaffman of the Neighborhood Club of Boston, last Saturday. P. R. Pease '26, who played in the fourth position for the University seconds during their victorious season went into the third round with a well earned triumph over R. T. Youngman of the Union Boat Club...