Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-17
De BAECKE COACH
OF VESPER CREWS
Member of 1900 Worlds Cham
pionship Eight Has Wealth
of Material
HAS Fl JUNIOR 0ARSMEN

TWENTY ONE Junior sweep oarsmcn
L are available for crews to fly colors
Of Vesper this season. With this
abundance of material on hand there
are bright prospects of speedy Junior
eight and junior four cared gig crews
being developed.
This years Vespcr oarsmen are to
be coached by Harry De Baeckc. He is
a former worlds champion, having
rowed In the famous Vesper eight
which went to Paris and won the title
IN 19OU In speaking Of his plans for
this season, Coach De Baecke said
today:
1--WE will lay great stress on the work
of the juniors. as they will be our future
seniors and II they are correctly taught
the fundamentals of rowing, practice
will make them smooth. The trouble is
some juniors get into bad habits when
they first start to row. which are diff
icult to- eliminate, and If they are
taught the correct catch. pull and re.
covery at the start the rest is easy"
With five intermediate sweeps and
captain Hanna, Myers, John Costello.
Rabbit and Falcon. who are ali
seniors. senior eight and four will
De made up to row in the American Re-
gatta, and Coach De Baecke expects to
have fine senior eight for the Peoples
and National Regattas, both Of which
will be held here.
Costello Training Daily
Paul Costello will take care Of the
single sculling. He is out daily work.
ing hard to get in shape for his race on
June 8 with Walter Hoover, Of Duluth,
MINI. for the Philadelphia Gold Chal.
lenge Cup. He 10 going better at pres
ent than ever before this early in the
year, and his fellow members are con :
fident he will be successful in keeping
the cup In Philadelphia.
Myers will row with Costello in the
senior double events. 1t Is doubtful II
John Kelly will do much sculling, but
he hopes to get In some Of the crews II
business will permit.
For some years Vesper has won the
annual Navy Day regatta and Coach
De Baecke hopes to be able to nut
enough winning crews In the races this
! year to capture the cup again, Jim
Flanagan and "Wash" Engel, former
national champion oarsmen. are active
In assisting the coach and endeavoring
to get equipment in good shape.
Louis Kenney will lead the Malta
| SiuD lOT tHe Iitu tiIut, ana also Will
coach the crews, with the assistance of
Os Moore, Billy Hammill and Harry
Sherwin.
During the winter virtually all the
equipment has been put in good repair,
particularly the single working boats,
which were thoroughly scraped and re .
vanished. All the sculls and sweep
oars have been put in good condition or
renewed.
To Examine Oarsmen
1t is the intention of Captain Kennev
to have physician examine all the
men before allowing them to 20 in
crews. so that no harm will result from
racing.
Another innovation will be the use of
stripes to designate a mans standing,
If q man wins a junior race in sculls
he will be allowed one stripe on the
right shoulder. and when he wins ar
intermediate event he will have two
stripes. and when a senior event Is can
tured he will wear three stripes.
The same rule will apply to sweer
oarsmen, except that the stripes will bt
on the left shoulder. After coxswaiI
has steered in rowing crew he will b,
allowed to wear white G in tn,
middle of the blue maltese cross, worr
on white jersey.
The club probably will make its frs
entries in the Harlem Regatta in New
York on Memorial Day. The mair
thing just now Is to get crews together
; for the Navy Day Regatta, and Captair
Kenney Is in hopes of getting an eigh
working every night very shortly.
Several of the clubs have number o
junior scullers, and it has been sug
gestcd that junior octopede race b,