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interested in inducing horsemen to join. He 

 has served on the executive committee, board 

 of directors, and was chairman of the racing 

 committee in 1913-14. 



Mr. Mayberry has been closely identified 

 in the history of both the Saugus and Mystic 

 tracks. The former he purchased, in the Fall 

 of 1883, in company with three other men. 

 He employed J. A. Snow for secretary and 

 they gave race meetings for four years. He 

 sold the track to O. S. Roberts in 1889, but 

 bought it back a year later, being one of a 

 syndicate of ten Lynn men. Soon after he 

 sold the racing plant to George A. Engleman 

 and others, owners of Brighton Reach race 

 course. 



In 1903 Mr. Mayberry headed a syndicate 

 of land owners and purchased the famous 

 Mystic Park, in Medford, from Horace 

 Willis and the widow of Thomas J. Alex- 

 ander. The land was cut into building lots, 

 and in 1914 it was practically covered with 

 dwellings, with the exception of the back- 

 stretch of the race track. 



.Mr. Mayberry was owner of the Island 

 View Farm. Whitefield, X. H.. and later 

 bought the Mayberry Farm in Casco, Me., 

 where the well known stallion William 

 Albert, 2:16 1-2, heads his stud of brood 

 mares. He has bred, had developed and 

 raced, Ben Wilkes. 2:17 1-4; Domino, 

 2:16 1-2: Tommy L.. 2:19 1-4; Bertmont, 

 2:181-4; Dr. Billings, 2:181-4; Cleoberta, 

 2:201-2; Prince Albert. 2:241-4; Leoberta. 

 2:2(1 1-2; Mordica, 2:20 1-4; Zephyr, 

 2:21 3-4; Frank Albert. 2:22 1-4; Montbert, 

 2:22; Nancy Bingen, 2:15 1-4; Cassandra, 

 2:24 1-2, and more than ico others. Mr. 

 Mayberry resides at 9 Stetson Street, Brook- 

 line, Mass. 



E. L. SHARPNECK 



E. I.. Siiarpneck was born in Parkers- 

 burg, W. Ya.. in 1855. He attended the 

 schools in Council Blurts, Iowa, completing 

 his studies with a thorough course in mechani- 

 cal engineering. He started in business for 

 himself as an inventor and mechanical engi- 

 neer, spending several years in Chicago. In 

 1900 he came to Boston and located in the 

 Tremont Building, and in the past few years 

 he has had a suite of offices at 88 Broad St. 

 Mr. Sharpneck is known throughout the coun- 

 try in his chosen field of mechanical engineer- 

 ing and as an inventor. He has placed on the 

 market many patents that are in constant use. 

 His anti-friction roller bearing is being taken' 

 up by the prominent railroads of the Unite 1 

 States and Canada. 



Mr. Sharpneck joined the Metropolitan 

 Club in 1914. and while he has owned several 



high-class driving horses, yet he has not 

 invested in speed horses to the present 

 time. Despite that, however, he is frequently 

 seen at the speedway on the days of matinee 

 racing, and it is predicted by his friends that 

 the time is short before he gets the fever so 

 badly that the result will be his buying a fast 

 trotter or pacer. Mr. Sharpneck's hobby, out- 

 side of his home life, is bowling, at which he 

 is recognized as one of the cleverest amateurs 

 in Greater Boston. He resides at Winthrop 

 Highlands, Mass. 



KNAPP FORSHNER 

 Knapp Forshner was born in \\ allace, 

 Cumberland County, X. S., in 18(15, and re- 

 ceived his education in the schools of his 

 native town. His first work was in 1884, 

 making jewelry in the shop of Draper, Pate 

 & Bailey, Attleboro, Mass. He started in 

 business for himself in 1894, in North Attle- 

 boro, opening a sale and boarding stable and 

 dealing in coal and wood. He is a member 

 of the Metropolitan, Fell sway, and Dorches- 

 ter Driving Clubs. 



Mr. Forshner first became interested in 

 horses at North Attleboro, where he con- 

 ducted a public stable at the local half-mile 

 track. Leaving North Attleboro, he located 

 at Combination Park, and was then in the 

 hotel business in Brighton. After that he 

 removed to Providence, where he was in the 

 stable business and run a horseshoeing es- 

 tablishment, also trained a string of horses 

 at Xarragansett Park for Fred E. Perkins, 

 the owner of the track property. When 

 Xarragansett was turned over for the use 

 of the running horse. Mr. Forshner removed 

 to Hillsgrove, R. I., selling out his business 

 in Providence. He then returned to Med- 

 ford. where he ran the Medford Inn and 

 stable, and trained horses at Combination 

 Park. His next venture was in the horse- 

 shoeing business in Haverhill, Mass.. and 

 running a public training stable in Kenoza 

 Park. There he remained one year, when 

 he returned to Boston and bought a grocery 

 and provision business, which he disposed 

 of in the Spring of 1914, that season training 

 horses at the Charles River Speedway. 



Mr. Forshner, during his extended turf 

 career, gave records to about twenty-five of 

 bis own horses, from 2:10 to 2:30. and fully 

 as many were given their records by him 

 that were owned by other parties. He had 

 good success with the pacing mare, Edna B., 

 2 :C9 1-2, the season of 1914. winning four 

 free-for-alls getting second money four times, 

 and fourth money once. The times that he 

 was second, he was defeated by the almost 

 invincible half-mile pacing gelding of that 



