Sport: Racquets

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.

Followers of the game were astonished. Mr. Pell had held the championship since 1915 with the exception of 1916, 1923 and 1926 when it was won by Stanley G. Mortimer. Mr. Sheldon had to despatch Mr. Mortimer before meeting Mr. Pell, which made his success doubly convincing.*

A slender, black-haired Manhattanite, Racqueteer Sheldon learned at Eton his fast, dashing, strong-on-the-backhand game.

*The gold racquets bat bandied back and forth between the Messrs. Mortimer and Pell since 1914 and won last fortnight by Mr. Pell at Tuxedo does not, as reported by TIME last week, symbolize the amateur championship but is comparable to the gold mashie played for annually on the private golf links of the late T. Suffern Tailer at Newport, R. I.