The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 



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the ensuing year: President, James I. 

 Brooks; first vice-president, George M. 

 I 'avis : second vice-president, Daniel Paine; 

 secretary, Frank I". Morrison; treasurer, 

 Harry \Y. Litchfield; directors, E. II. King- 

 man, W. W. Sprague, Knapp Forshner, I!. 

 R. Cohb, I !eo. V Law, W. W. Croft, \. 

 raylor, F. S. McKown, H. W. Smith, Dr. 

 W. H. Hitchings; cleric, F. E. Morrison. 



Interclub races were held with the Dor- 

 chester Club on June 17. and that Summer 

 were decided the interclub meets between 

 the Fellsway, Quannapowitt, Lynn and Dor- 

 chester Clubs. The last named club won the 

 elegant silver cup, the Fellsways finishing 

 second: certainly very creditable work. 



On the evening of September 2(;, Presi- 

 dent Brooks was awarded the whip given 

 by the club as a prize to the member getting 

 the largest number of members for the six 

 preceding months. 



Since the inception of the club, the ladies 

 had been very strenuous in their efforts to 

 have the organization a big success. In 

 clearing several of the earlier debts of the 

 club, the women held socials, card, parties 

 arid rummage sales, the proceeds going into 

 the treasury of the club. Then, the magnifi- 

 cent (Lag that swept over Combination Park- 

 was made liv the women admirers of the 

 Fellsways. In fact, the storv was never de- 

 nied that the real working secretary of the 

 driving club was Mrs. Frank E. Morrison, 

 which probably accounted for the pains taken 

 in a complete record of the events that 

 1 ranspired. 



In return for all this labor, the members 

 concluded that the least thev could do for the 

 women was to extend to them the privilege 

 of using the clubroom afternoons fur meet- 

 ings and social gatherings, and. at a meet- 

 ing held November to. it was so voted. 



\t tlii;- very last meeting held bv the club 

 that year, in partial oayment for the wi irk 

 Mrs. Morrison had done, a Christmas and 

 New Year present was voted to be sent to 

 her in the fnrm of a check calling for $20. 



A busy driver in the matinees during the 

 season was Charles R. Forshner. who won 

 eight blue ribbons, came twelve times sec- 

 ond, seven times third, and twice fourth, 

 a total of 20 races. He won with Tower r>ov, 

 owned bv M. A. Pero, the S85 matinee cart, 

 and with Alice F., a suit of horse clothing. 



The club lost two of its most valued mem- 

 bers during the year in Dr. J. E. Richardson 

 and Ranee Wentworth. Both were en- 

 thusiastic horsemen and thoroughly at 

 heart in everything beneficial to the club, or 

 advancement of the horse. 



SEASON OF 1910 



In the month Of Januan the firsl impor- 

 tant occasion was the annual banquet, held at 

 the Quincy House, Boston, and. as in the pre- 

 vious nnes. were present officials from all 

 the neighboring driving clubs and the lead- 

 ing politicians of Somerville. After-dinner 

 speeches and. vaudeville, with plenty of sing- 

 ing and music, made the evening a memor- 

 able one. 



In February was held the ladies' night, with 

 dancing, luncheon, arid an entertainment. 

 There was a large, joyful party present. 



Arrangements were completed early in the 

 year with George A. Graves for the leasing 

 of Combination Park for the season of 1910. 



With committees present at the Quincy 

 House from each of the five driving clubs 

 of Greater Boston it was decided to hold a 

 grand championship interclub series of 

 matinees at Combination Park during the 

 Summer months, the winning club to re- 

 ceive a valuable silver cup, the emblem to 

 represent the driving club championship of 

 Xew England. All these events were to be 

 decided over the Medford track, and the five 

 clubs to take part were the Fellsway, Dor- 

 chester, Metropolitan, Quannapowitt, and 

 Lynn. From each club ten horses were to 

 he 1 n'cked. five of the best trotters and the 

 five fastest pacers. This made a field of 

 fifty horses to take the word on racing days, 

 there being ten races on the card, with five 

 horses in eioh event. 



The annual election of officers was held 

 on March 2. with the following result: Presi- 

 dent. Daniel Paine: first vice-president, L. 

 Fred Sanborn: second vice-president, Chas. 

 "\Y. Thyng: third vice-president, George A. 

 Law: fourth vice-president. James S. 

 McRae; treasurer, Geo. M. Davis: secre- 

 tary, Frank E. Morrison; directors, Tames I. 

 I '.rooks, Harry W. Litchfield. William W. 

 Sprague. Charles M. Lockwood, P,. R. Cobb, 

 Geo. N. Coyle, Frank S. McKown. A. Jame- 

 son. W. A. Rice. Chas. Forshner. 



With the election of Mr. Paine to the 

 chair of honor, the club gave a rising vote 

 of thanks to James I. Brooks, the retiring 

 president, in having cleverly steered the craft 

 through the dangerous rapids in the early 

 davs of the club. 



I« ihn W. Dorey was elected chairman of 

 the racing committee. and his work 

 throughout the Summer was very com- 

 mendable, giving satisfaction to all the mem- 

 bers that raced horses under his classifica- 

 tion. 



At a meeting held on May 18, Represen- 



