The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-27
Famous Winner with
the Sweeps
WAS YOUNG KERNS.
International Will Be a Big
Success This Year.

Yet few weeks and boating will be
in full swing a the lake. Never be-
fore were there such indications of a
busy season. Not only the men who
handle the oar and scull, but the lads
canoe along the smooth water, are more
thoroughly interested than ever. Prep
arations for the season are more eX-
tensive than at this time of any pre-
vious year.
Worcester Will add another bright
star to its galaxy of rowing men.
Frank J. Kerns intends to take up scull-
ing this season. He made his reputa-
ton in a shell as stroke of the high
school crew for two years. Previous
to that, however, Kerns handled the
SOULS and gave great promise. But
the formation of the high school crew
| turned him into an oarsman. He will
certainly sustain Worcester's reputa-
! ton of being able to always turn out
| a winning junior. For Kerns although
he has had several years experience in
a shell, is yet junior. He never roWed
| but one race, and that was a match
which does not affect his standing.
Kerns ought to be one of the best soul
| lers in the country, after a season of
practice. He was clever with the
SOULS when he first started to use them,
| but was youngster, and had not de-
| veloped He now weighs over 40
pounds, and will row under the Wa
chusett blue, for he is a member of
that club. kerns will probably get a
| new boat.
Boating men are beginning to talk of
the Quinsigamond international regat-
ia. is the annual meeting Of the gov
errors. at which preparations will be
started. is scheduled to take place ear
| " next month. The Quinsigamond
will be of national Importance the COM
ing summer, on account of the compe-
tttions in the national regatta at Bos-
| ton week previous to the racing at
the lake. In this connection, the prep
arations which the Knickerbocker Ath-
letic Club Of New York are making are
of great interest to Worcester. The
KnickerboCker Club, which intends to
! hold the foremost place in rowing as
well as other sports, and has already
decided to send a crew to the Paris ex-
position next year will enter it's crew
in the national regatta at Boston and
also at Worcester. The crew has been
formed from the best oarsmen that
could be obtained, and has already be-
gun practice. The men have been at
work in the gym of the club for sew
eral weeks, and every fine Sunday the
crew can be found on the Harlem
river. The makeup of the crew is as
follows:
a. L. de B. Handley, weight 15S lbs,
formerly of Atalanta Boat Club.
~. J. H. Hughes, weight 10, for
merly of Atalanta Boat Club.
{rrl,A
of Cornell University, COS crew.
O. C. Oddie, weight 173, Cornell I'm
iversity C9S crew.
90. j. H. Rooney, weight IFS lbs,
formerly of ATLANTA Boat Club.
90. J. F. O'Connell. weight IT'S lbs,
| formerly of ATLANTA Boat Club.
%. E. Savage, weight 1T2 formerly
of Cornell University COS crew..
CS). Stroke, w. Bentley weight, 1872.
formerly of Cornell University C5S
| crew.
Cox L. E. de vilIaverdi, weight los
| lbs, Atalanta Boat Club and Columbia
| College.
| University; w. Ritt1er, weight 100 lbs,
Cornell University, stroke CT the Balti-
more champion eight.
| F. Hoffman, weight 1876 lbs, Atalanta
Boat Club.
B. Mercadante, weight 100 lbs, Alta
| lanta Boat Club.
One of the principal members of the
| club, in a letter to the sporting editor
Of The Spy, a day or two ago, said
the crew is composed of picked men and
| should be the strongest crew in the
country. There is not q man in the
crew who Is given to dissipation of any
| form, and all are working hard The
| captain, James Hughes, is one of the
strongest men handling an oar. He is
I n nj nj
team and is considered the best anna
teur wrestler in the country The club
has voted $1,000 to defray the expenses
of the crew. 1t will be at Bergen Point
all summer and will have it's own cook.
1t is out for the championship, and the
crew that whips it will be star.
Wachusett men will open their club
house at the lake Sunday. The monthly
meeting for April will be held there.
| The feature of the meeting will be
lecture on Henley by John E. Sullivan
of the club. There is nobody in Ameri-
ca better qualified to speak on Henley
than Mr.. Sullivan. He was at Henley
when Ned Ten Evck won the diamond
souls in hollow fashion, and took adj
vantage of every opportunity to learn
all he could about the great regatta.
The man who didn't give much as
sistance to Ned Ten Eyck when he was
a competitor at Henley, Or" W. S.
: Mcdowell of Chicago, is again entered
for the diamond SOULS at Henley and
} intends to compete. He has competed
three times, and, as usual, expects TO
win. There are few boating men in
Worcester who forget the way Or"
!, Mcdowell treated Ten Eyck when both
were at Henley, and he won't carry the
ardent hopes of victory of Worcester
people.
Interscholastic rowing at Boston is
rushing. The lads of various schools