1892 REGATTA Row RACE Passaic River NJ BROADSIDE Edwin Hedley VESPER Boat Club

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1892 REGATTA Row RACE Passaic River NJ BROADSIDE Edwin Hedley VESPER Boat Club:
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An 1892 REGATTA Row RACE Passaic River NJ BROADSIDE Edwin Hedley VESPER Boat Club
A great original 125 year old broadside advertising the Middle States Regatta Association Third Annual Regatta on Saturday, August 13, 1892 on the Passaic River in Newark, NJ. A remarkable piece of American rowing history listing numerous clubs and rowers competeing. Highlights include races from the famous Vesper Boat Club and two races from club member and Olympian Edwin Hedley!

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Edwin HedleyOlympic medalist in rowingOlympic medal recordMen\'srowingRepresentingtheUnited States1900 ParisMen\'s eight

Edwin P. Hedley(July 23, 1864 – May 22, 1947) \"was anAmericanrowerwho competed in the1900 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the American crew of theVesper Boat Club, which won the gold medal in the eights.\"

Vesper Boat ClubVesper Boat ClubLocation#10Boathouse waterSchuylkill RiverEstablished1865Navy admission1870 (reinstated 1879)[1]Former namesWashington Barge ClubPresidentKirk Select,Sacred Heart,Academy of Notre DameandGermantown Friends SchoolWebsitevesperboatclub.orgUndine Barge ClubU.S. Historic district
Contributing propertyPhiladelphia Register of Historic PlacesShow map of PennsylvaniaShow map of the USShow ofVesper Boat Club(#87000821[2])Added to NRHPFebruary 27, 1987

\"TheVesper Boat Clubis an amateurrowingclub located at #10 Boathouse Rowin the historicBoathouse RowofPhiladelphia,Pennsylvania. Founded in 1865 as the Washington Barge Club, the Club changed its name to Vesper Boat Club in 1870. Vesper\'s stated goal is \"to produce Olympic champions.\"[3]Most recently, that goal was achieved byDevery KarzandKathleen Bertkoin the2016 Summer Olympics

The Vesper Boat Club had its beginning on Feb. 22, 1865– a decade into the flourishing of rowing clubs on Philadelphia’sSchuylkill River– with the founding of the Washington Barge Club. Five years later, on Jan 1, 1870, it changed its name to Vesper Boat Club and quickly became one of the most celebrated rowing clubs in the United States and the world.

Vesper’s eight-oared shell took the gold medal in Paris at the1900 Summer Olympics. The Vesper eight repeated its victory at the 1904 games in St. Louis. And at the1964 Tokyo Olympics, Vesper\'s eight won again, making it the only rowing club in the United States to win the title three times.

Perhaps the best-known names associated with the Vesper Club areJohn B. Kelly Sr., an Irish brickworks owner who became influential in city politics and his son,John B. Kelly Jr., a city councilman and brother toPrincess Grace of Monaco.

Kelly Sr. won Olympic Gold in the single scull in 1920. He also won gold medals in the double scull in 1920 and in 1924, both times with his cousinPaul Costello. As a laborer Kelly was barred from entering theDiamond Scullsat theRoyal Henley Regatta. It was two decades later that John B. Kelly Jr. would win that event, in 1947 and 1949. Kelly Jr. won the national singles championship eight times. At the time of his death in 1985, he. was president of theUnited States Olympic Committee.

Under the coaching of such greats as Jim Manning, Dr. Charles W. Riggall,Allan Rosenbergand Dietrich Rose, many other Vesper members have gone on to cumulatively win more national and international races than any club in the United States.

The present clubhouse was constructed in combination with neighboringMalta, with the Vesper cornerstone dated 1865. The first building was completed in1865, and the second boat bay addition in 1898. The last addition was completed in the early 1960s. The boathouse was designed by noted Philadelphia architect G.H. Hewitt. The architecture – semi -attached ornamental Victorian Gothic is typical of that period and members who were tradesmen constructed the original building with local building materials.

After a century of accomplishments for the men, Vesper in 1970 became the first men’s club to organize a women’s rowing team. (Philadelphia Girls Rowing Clubin 1968 pioneered women’s rowing in the United States.) Vesper women have consistently won national championships and have regularly represented the United States in international competition. At the Montreal Olympics in 1976, six Vesper members were on the USA Olympic Rowing Team.\"

In Fair overall condition; moderate wear and wrinkling; gentle fold lines; edge wear and folding to the left side. Left side curled and folded in areas however can be flattened and framed. Pencil inscription of \"1st\" by one of the races listed; gentle soiling to top edge.
Piece is complete so will look very handsome once edges are flattened out and it is put in a proper frame. Fragile pink paper stock. Reverse shows remnants of paper from when this was previously attached to a scrapbook album page. Reverse side also has two ticket stubs affixed to it that are in German; perhaps competitors tickets for events in Germany for this broadside came from the scrapbook of a Princeton a university track competitor!
Measures 17 3/4\" x 8\".
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