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The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 



ropolitan Driving Club, and E. Mark Sullivan, 

 assistant United States District Attorney, 

 were among the speakers. 



Besides the regular Saturday and holiday 

 matinees at Franklin Field Speedway, there 

 were held, during the Summer months, a 



SEASON OF 1910 



Mayor Fitzgerald Leading Parade at Dedication 

 of the Half-mile Speedway on Franklin Field 



grand interclub series of meets between Dor- 

 chester, Fellsway, Lynn and Quannapowitt, 

 each of these clubs meeting in the races, that 

 were decided at Combination Park, Medford, 

 Rockdale Park, Peabody, the Reading- 

 Wakefield track, and the last session back- 

 again at Combination. As the result of this 

 grand contest, the large silver cup was won 

 by the Dorchester Driving Club, and placed 

 with all honor in the private office of the club. 



President Linnehan, in summing up the 

 grand success of the Dorchester Club in win- 

 ning this trophy, gave great credit to Frank 

 Hamlin, the chairman of the racing commit- 

 tee, who worked early and late getting the 

 members to enter and start their horses in the 

 several races, and in this way was Dorchester 

 s. i well and strongly represented that it car- 

 ried away the cup. 



Previous to the big interclub meets, the 

 Fellsway and Dorchester Clubs had a sort of 

 introductory clash on June \j at Combination 

 Park, which resulted in the defeat of the 

 Fellsway Club by the very close score of 77 

 points for Di irehester, to 76 1-2 points for the 

 Fellsway. This was the closest interclub meet 

 ever held in the history of driving clubs in 

 New England. I >f the iS events on the card 

 thai daw the Dorchester Club won 10. 



A. M. Johnson, who had been strongly 

 identified with the club since its inception 

 both in filling offices and by racing on the 

 speedway, was elected president, the full 

 ticket for the ensuing year being as follows : 



President, A. M. Johnson ; first vice-presi- 

 W. P. Boutelle; second vice-president, F. W. 

 Hamlin ; secretary, Geo. H. Greenwood ; 

 treasurer. A. Fellows ; directors, A. T. Wheel- 

 ock, J. W. Coakley, F. W. Guild, M. McDer- 

 mott, John Spiers ; racing and speedway com- 

 mittee, A. H. Keeler, chairman, L. Tewhart, 

 R. G. Crosby, A. Fellows, E. L. Hopkins. 

 F. H. Bellows, A. C. Maher, L. A. Bean, D. E. 

 Page, E. H. .Morse, J. W. Coakley, F. S. El- 

 dredge, and T. J. Griffin ; membership com- 

 mittee, H. P. Gallup, chairman, J. Dunn. E. S. 

 Harris, A. M. Cain, E. P. Denn, H. Buchner, 

 F. M. Bleiler, E. J. Norris, M. McDermott, 

 A. Kaan and W. J. Bates ; house committee. S. 

 Bradford, chairman, J. A. Graham, A. H. 

 Paul, B. F. Tuttle. F. F. Cannon and W. P. 

 Boutelle ; finance committee, C. T. Green- 

 wood, chairman, T. E. Henderson ; clerk, 

 John 11. Buckley. 



The eighth annual banquet of the club was 

 held at the Ouincy House, on December 6, 

 with 200 members and invited guests present. 



Mayor Fitzgerald Winning with Ralph Wick 

 on Dorchester Day in 1912. Time 1:06 



The leading speaker of the evening was Coun- 

 cillor F. J. Brand, who characteristically 

 termed the evening the club's annual free-for- 

 all. The speaking was interspersed with mu- 

 sic, and a number of capital stories with re- 

 marks upon matinee racing and what it was 



