Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — VESPER CLUB ACHIEVEMENTS [ARTICLE]

VESPER CLUB ACHIEVEMENTS

Members of Philadelphia Organization Gaining Prominence by Winning Sculling Races. The Vesper Boat dub o# Philadelphia, which heretofore was famed for the powerful senior eight-oared shell crews they developed, their victory in Paris in 1900, and over the Argonauts of Toronto at the St. Louis fair in 1904 being among big achievements, are now gaining sculling prominence. Jack Kelly this year won the national single sculling award and £aul Costello the association single crown. Walter Rlgling, too, leaped into prominence by advancing from junior to senior rank this year. He won the junior single sgulls race on the Schuylkill river, July 4, and on Labor day won the Intermediate and association single races one after the other. In 20 minutes.