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deu's Susie K. and H. J. Russell's Picture 

 Hat. Best time, 36s. Class C pace was won 

 by John Marston's William L., defeating 

 C. H. Belledeu's Dart. Best time, 32 i-2s. 

 Class D pace went to H. A. Stonely's Tom 

 Arnold, beating H. J. Russell's The Private, 

 and J. W. Linnehan's Rex. Best time, 32 I-2S. 

 A banquet was held after the races, at the 

 Eagle Hotel, in honor of the visiting horse- 

 men from Boston, when Mr. Shepard was in- 

 troduced by the Governor as the best known 

 gentleman driver in New England. The crowd 

 cheered long and loud. 



There was much sleighing on the Charles 

 River Speedway during this Winter, the fast 

 trotting events being very exciting between 

 T. G. Plant's Alice Carr, 2:09 1-4; John 

 Shepard's Altro L., 2:09 3-4; and Walter Far- 

 mer's Fashion. 2:15. The struggle for honors 

 of champion trotter of the speedway finally 

 narrowed down to between Alice Carr and 

 Fashion, the latter having the better of the 

 argument in the earlier clashes, but Alice Carr 

 showing her superiority by a slight margin in 

 the closing matinees, and thus gaining the dis- 

 tinction of snow champion for the season. 



A special meeting of the board of directors 

 was held on April 22. William D. Hunt was 

 elected a member of the board in place of 

 John W. Linnehan, who had resigned. Mr. 

 Hunt was also made chairman of the racing 

 committee, and it was voted to give four sil- 

 ver cups for the Spring series of matinees, to 

 begin May 6 and close June 24. On account 

 of a postponement, the last matinee was July 

 1 , the cup winners for this series being as fol- 

 lows: 



Trotters 

 Speed cup — Isaac Sexton's Tom Phair. 

 Point cup — George P. Johnson's Alice Shedd. 



Pacers 

 Speed cup — William McPhee's Whiffet. 

 Point cup — William Steele's Lady Rose. 



A noteworthy feature of the series was Tom 

 Phair winning all of his starts, seven in all, 

 and lowering the speedway trotting record, 

 held by Axtello, from 1 103 3-4 to 1 =03 1 -4. 



The second annual meeting of the club was 

 held at Young's Hotel on October 3. The 

 election resulted as follows : C. H. Belledeu, 

 president; G. A. Graves, H. M. Whitney, 

 W. J. Furbush, Isaac Sexton, Charles H. 

 Traiser and W. D. Hunt, vice-presidents; 

 M. C. Harrison, secretary and treasurer. 

 Board of directors, C. H. Belledeu, W. J. 

 Furbush, G. A. Graves, John Shepard, M. C. 

 llarrisi hi, \Y. D. Hunt, Isaac Sexton, J. V. N. 

 Stults, Charles H. Traiser and M. Goodspeed. 

 Mr. Hunt was reappointed chairman of the 



racing committee. It was voted to offer four 

 silver cups for the Fall series of matinees, to 

 begin October 11 and close on November 30; 

 also to change the day of matinees from Sat- 

 urday to Wednesday, as many of the mem- 

 bers were unable to leave their business duties 

 on Saturday afternoons. 



The winners of the silver cups in the Fall 

 series were : 



Trotters 

 Speed cup — W. D. Hunt's Curta. 

 Point cup — Isaac Sexton's Tom Phair. 



Pacers 

 Speed cup — W. H. Emerson's Louise E. 

 Point cup — A. E. Kinney's Early Bird, Jr. 



In this series both the trotting and pacing 

 records of the speedway were lowered, as in 

 the matinee of November 1, Curta, driven by 



CURTA, 2:13 1-4 



Winner of Speed Cup in 1905, Making Speedway 



Record to Wagon of 1 :02 1-4. Owned 



by W. D. Hunt 



C. H. Belledeu, reduced the previous mark of 

 1 103 1-4, made by Tom Phair. to 1 :o2 1-4, 

 and the same afternoon Charlie Lockwood 

 drove Louise E. a winning heat in 1 :o2, the 

 former pacing record being the 1 104 1-2 by 

 Phoebon W. 



SEASON OF 1906 



It proved that this year was a history-mak- 

 ing period for the club, as in the month of 

 January it was incorporated, and on Febru- 

 ary 2, at a meeting of the incorporators at 

 J3 Tremont Street, Room 923, the Metropoli- 

 tan Driving Club of Boston received its char- 

 ter from the State nf Massachusetts. This act 

 required a new election of officers, as under 

 the charter the annual election shall be held 

 on the second Wednesday of January of each 

 year. Dues to the chartered club were placed 



