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The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 



over the home track, and to have been owned 

 by a man who has been a member of the club 

 for at least three matinees. Furthermore, that 

 the Metropolitan Driving Club would not par- 

 ticipate in interclub racing unless hopples were 

 barred in the contests. 



So successful was the clambake, held in the 

 Fall of 191 1, that the club agreed to make it 

 an annual affair, the same to be left in the 

 hands of the entertainment committee. 



At the regular meeting of the club, the res- 

 ignation of E. A. Bayley as director and mem- 

 ber of the club was accepted, much to the re- 

 gret of the members, who appreciated the 

 earnest efforts he made in promoting the in- 

 terests of the organization. 



The annual horse show was fully as suc- 

 cessful as the preceding one, and was handled 

 admirably by Edgar Power, E. A. Fuller and 

 A. W. Davis. Later in the year, Maurice E. 

 Dimond was elected chairman of the horse 

 show committee. 



The owners of fast trotters and pacers were 

 out in full force, as usual, during the racing 

 season, and there was keen competition for 

 the prizes offered. A feature of the wind-up 

 of the Spring series was a dinner and dance 

 at the clubhouse. Before the members and 

 ladies sat down to the banquet table, the cups 

 and ribbons were awarded to the winners of 

 the various classes, Arthur Power, the official 

 starter for the club, presenting the trophies. 



At the conclusion of the Fall series, a no- 

 table fact that came to hand was that W. J. 

 McDonald's Chief Wilkie had, during his 

 speedway career, raced nearly one hundred 

 heats close to a minute, and in one of the mat- 

 inees that Fall he stepped two successive heats 

 in 59 1-4 seconds. During the season he had 

 taken the word in 18 regular races over the 

 Charles River Speedway, winning 17 of them. 

 This left no doubt, of course, that he was 

 clearly entitled to the distinction of champion 

 of all pacers owned by members of the club. 

 The prize winners for the year were : 



SPRING SERIES 

 Trotters 



Time cup — E. H. Merrow's Hawkins, 1 :02 1-2. 



Speed cup — C. A. Thompson's Margate, 1 :02 1-4. 



First point cup — T. H. Hubbard's Patricia. 



Second point cup — F. C. Garmon's Torreon. 



Slow cup — W. J. McDonald's Castle Todd, 1:193-8, 



First special ribbon — Edgar Power's Prince of Mo- 

 naco. 



Second special ribbon — O. H. Johnson's Silence. 



Third sin-cia 1 ribbon — E. J. Scanlon's Nancy Old- 

 held, 1 :07 2-3. 



Pacers 



Time cup — W. J. McDonald's Chief Wilkie, I :oo 1-2. 

 Speed cup — J. O. Reay's Wesley Summers, 1 :05. 

 First point cup — C. C. Mayberry's Claberta. 



Second point cup — J. D. Thompson's Edith R. 

 Slow time cup — T. J. Watt's Elmwood 1:125-8. 

 First special ribbon — I. Buffington's Country Boy. 

 Second special ribbon — E. S. Morse's Billy F. 

 Third special ribbon — M. F. Maher's Lady Pinewood. 



The battle for cups in the Fall matinee 

 series by the horses of the Metropolitan Driv- 

 ing Club was very keen, and, in several in- 

 stances, the lucky horse got the trophy by the 

 narrow margin of one point. During the Fall 

 season 330 horses started in the ten matinees, 

 as compared with 304 in the Fall series of 

 1910. 



Following is the official list of cup winners. 

 As three pacers were tied with 30 points, the 

 cups, according to rule, went to those having 

 the fastest average time, hence Lady Pinewood 

 and Chester Boy received the awards. 



FALL SERIES 

 Trotters 

 Time cup — W. J. McDonald's Demarest, 1 :04 1-4. 

 Speed cup — W. J. McDonald's La Boudie, 1 :02 1-4. 

 First point cup — W. J. McDonald's Castle Todd. 

 Second point cup — D. M. Holmes' Major Dillard. 

 Slow cup — G. W. Norton's Ned Norton, 1:171-2, 



1:18. 



Pacers 

 Time cup — W. J. McDonald's Chief Wilkie, 59 1-4S. 

 Speed cup — S. B. Hastings' Star Lilly Bingen, 



I :03 1-8. 

 First point cup — C. G. Newcomb's Chester Boy. 

 Second point cup — M. F. Maher's Lady Pinewood. 

 Slow cup — W. J. Lovell's Helen L., 1 :iy 1-2, 1 :i8. 



SEASON OF 1912 



For the third successive year Fred C. Gar- 

 mon was elected president of the driving club 

 at the annual meeting, held on January 10, the 

 other officers being as follows : Vice-presi- 

 dents, John Shepard, T. H. Hubbard, J. V. N. 

 Stults," A. H. Parker. M. Goodspeed, A. J. 

 Furbush, and C. H. Belledeu ; treasurer, C. H. 

 Dow ; secretary, W. L. Duntlev ; directors, 

 F. C. Garmon, W. D. Hunt, C. H. Dow, W. J. 

 McDonald, Geo. F. Leonard, Henry Wood. 

 W. T- Furbush, C. S. Spencer, B. W. Gove, 



A. H. Power, C. C. Mayberry, Geo. D. Mer- 

 rill, W. J. Lovell, A. H. Parker, and E. H. 

 Kingman ; executive committee, F. C. Garmon, 

 C. S. Spencer, C. H. Dow, Geo. F. Leonard, 



B. W. Gove, A. H. Power, and C. C. May- 

 berry. 



Superintendent Gilman having promised 

 that the new half-mile track, located opposite 

 the clubhouse and between the straightaway 

 speedway and the river, would be ready for 

 racing on April 19, it was voted by the club 

 that the occasion be celebrated with a 

 grand opening day, which would include a 

 horse show and matinee racing, members of 



