The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 



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owned with moderate records, preferring 

 them to the crackajacks that have stepped 

 Faster than the 2:10 mark. 



One of the very best that ever stepped over 

 the Franklin Field Speedway was Mr. Cros- 

 by's pacing gelding. Bunker Hill, 2:13 3-4, 

 that secured the five-heat race record in an 

 interclub meet against the Metropolitan Club. 

 Opposed to him was Phoebon \V., 2:08 3-4, 

 owned and driven by \Y. J. Furbush, the con- 

 test of five heats averaging 30 seconds to a 

 heat. Each of the pacers had won two heats, 

 and in the deciding one the presiding judge 

 announced Phoebon W. the winner; later the 

 judges decided that Bunker Hill had won the 

 race. To overcome this discrepancy in deci- 

 sions, the Dorchester Club officials generously 

 awarded to the owners of Bunker Hill and 

 Phoebon W. a silver cup, so that each man 

 points with pride to having won the fastest 

 five-heat race over the speedway. 



With Miss Riggen, 2:14 1-4, Mr. Crosby 

 holds the seven-heat record over the old quar- 

 ter-mile speedway at Franklin Field, get- 

 ting it the day he defeated Capt. Hall and 

 Miss Ormond. Then with B. S. Dillon, 

 2:14 1-4, he holds the three-heat record for 

 the quarter-mile course, securing that the 

 afternoon he defeated Rondo, 2:14 3-4, 

 which was the champion for several years on 

 the speedway, and Mr. Crosby had to buy 

 more than a half dozen pacers before getting 

 one capable of beating him. 



Then can be brought to mind Nellie, 

 2:26 1-4; Victor. 2:29 1-4; Riley G., 2:24 1-2; 

 Prince (trial). 2:27; Annie Lee, 2:07 1-4; 

 Maxfield, that is credited with winning heats 

 in 32 seconds; Lizzie Simms, 2:18; Crispin, 

 that stepped quarters in 30 seconds; Rose- 

 mont, 2:21 1-4, one of the gamest that ever 

 looked through a bridle and honest as the day 

 is long; lone, 2:17 1-4; Postman, 2:13 3-4; 

 and a half-interest in Grace G, 2:05 I_ 4- 



In 1914 Mr. Crosby enjoyed the matinees 

 and a few of the professional races with the 

 gelding. Jack Bingen, 2:22 1-4. He had a 

 lot of fun with him in amateur sport, hav- 

 ing been rarely beaten at Franklin Field 

 Speedway, and on Dorchester Day May- 

 or Curley won with him in 1 104 1-2. In 

 his intercity matinee racing. Jack Bingen 

 defeated the best trotters of the Old Colony 

 Club, viz., Katherine R., Higgins, Kaldar and 

 Catherine C. In the interclub meet against 

 Fellsway, on May 30, he also won, and in the 

 interclub meet over the Charles River Speed- 

 way against the Mets, he got third place. This 

 record was a very commendable one. Mr. 

 Crosby resides at 33 Boulevard Terrace, All- 

 ston, Mass. 



J. W. McENANY 



]. \\ . McEnany was bom in Burlington, 

 Vt., in 1S51, and attended the schools at 

 1'ittsford, Vt., and Middlebury, Vt. He came 

 to Boston in 1868 and, when but seventeen 

 years of age, started in the butter and egg 

 business for himself in what was then Union 

 Market. In 1883 he started in the trucking 

 business, which he has conducted since, and 

 is now located at 15 Fulton Street, Boston. 

 He is the owner of some of the finest horses 

 owned in the trucking business in Boston, his 

 two and four-horse teams having taken many 

 blue ribbons in the annual work-horse 

 parade, held on May 30th each year, once in 

 particular winning a gold medal with his 

 four-horse team. 



Mr. McEnany joined the Dorchester 

 Driving Club in 1902, and has been on sev- 

 eral of the important committees. He is also 

 a member of the Boston Lodge of Elks, and 

 of the Vermont Association. While he has 

 owned several fast driving horses, his favorite 

 was the mare. Dimple, with which he stood 

 ready to meet any of the fastest horses in the 

 club in a friendly brush down the speedway. 

 Air. McEnany resides at 80 Edson Street, 

 Dorchester, Mass. 



GEORGE A. LAW 



George A. Law was born in Bolton, Mass., 

 in 1855. He attended the Medford schools, 

 his parents having moved there when he was 

 a mere lad. His first work in Boston was in 

 1870, for the American Bank and Note Co. 

 In 1872 he started in business for himself, 

 running a fish market in Arlington. At pres- 

 ent he is in the hack, boarding and livery busi- 

 ness in Arlington, having been in the same 

 stable which he opened in 1888. In 1906 he 

 joined the Metropolitan Driving Club, and 

 was one of the charter members of the Fells- 

 way Driving Club. He also belongs to the 

 Royal Arcanum, Arlington Business Men's 

 Association and the Arlington Sportsman's 

 Club. Mr. Law was vice-president of the Met- 

 ropolitan Driving Club in 1914, and during his 

 connection with the Fellsway has been on 

 several committees, board of directors, third 

 vrce-president, and for three years held the 

 office of president. 



He has always owned a fast trotter or 

 pacer, being partial, however, in driving a 

 speedy wiggler. Among those he has raced 

 in the matinees can be called to mind Mabel 

 C, Minor S., matinee record 2:17 1-4; Fells- 

 way Boy, 2:28 1-4; Ida G., 2:26 1-2; May 

 Bingen, Fanny M., 2:241-4; and Rose Mar- 

 tin, matinee record 2:21 1-4. 



Mr. Law was first elected president of the 

 Fellsway Club in 191 1, and it was only by 



