INTERNATIONAL ROWING TURNS PROFESSIONAL The following year, 1909, was the high- water mark for Canottieri Querini, which won the coxed-pairs, coxed-fours and eights at the Italian Championships. Scipione and Brenno were joined on that squad by their 15-year old brother, Curzio. At the XVII European Championships in Paris, with the help of a new pair-partner, Luigi Armellini, Scipione won the third and fourth European Gold Medals of his career in the coxed-pairs and coxed-fours. They also came in second to France in the eights. In 1910, Scipione Del Giudice was a member of the winning Querini Coxed-Pair and Coxed-Four at the Italian Championships. At the European Championships, Italy Francesco Querini – L’uomo e la storia – La Società Canottieri nel Centenario di Fondazione Scipione Del Giudice Molmans and coxswain Rodolphe Clopaert of Belgium’s Sport Nautique de Gand, the defending champions in the coxed-pairs and members of the winning 1906 Grand Challenge Cup Eight.2805 Besides their Silver in Pallanza behind the young Italians in the coxed-pairs, that year the Belgians would again win European titles in the coxed-fours and eights. In 1908, Del Giudice won the Italian Championships in the coxed-pairs and coxed-fours, and then at the European Championships he won his second Gold Medal, this time in the coxed-fours with his twin brother, Brenno Del Giudice, along with Olgeni, Mario Tres, and coxswain Giuseppe Mion. Then in the coxed-pairs, Scipione, Olgeni and Mion placed second to their adversaries from the previous year, Visser, Molmans and Colpaert from Belgium. 2805 See Chapter 72. was represented in the other three traditional events, the singles, doubles and eights, by another Venetian club, Canottieri Bucintoro, founded in 1882. Ustolin: “Against very hard competition, the Querini won (for the third consecutive year) the coxed-fours and finished second in coxed-pairs with Bucintoro, less lucky, finishing second in all the other three races.”2806 Scipione’s Gold Medal count was now five. In 1911, the European Championships were held on Lake Como. Of the five events (singles, doubles, coxed-pairs, coxed-fours, eights), the honor of representing Italy was divided between Querini Venezia, Bucintoro Venezia and Lario Como. The day started with Querini losing the coxed-fours to Grasshopper Club Zürich of Switzerland in a race so close it caused problems for the officials. Bucintoro then won the coxed-pairs with Ercole Olgeni, Scipione’s former pair- partner, at stroke. Home club Lario won the singles with Giuseppe Sinigaglia and the doubles with Sinigaglia and Teodoro Mariani, the 1909 singles champion. 2806 Ustolin, op. cit. 781
