The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 



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GEORGE N. COYLE 



George X. Coyle was born in Charlestown, 

 Mass., in [88i, and attended the Bunker Hill 

 Grammar School, Boston College, and the Bos- 

 ton Latin School. His lirst work was for the 

 Charlestown lias Co., and soon after, in 1901, 

 he started in business for himself, opening a 

 coal, wood and coke yard in Charlestown. 

 He is at present in the same business at 5 

 Broadway, Somerville. 



He is a charter member of the Fellsway 

 Driving Club, and has served on the board of 

 directors. Other orders of which he is a 

 member are the K. of C, F. M., C. O. F., 

 C. L. W. of Charlestown, T. A. and L. 

 Society, and the Arlington Boat Club 

 Among the horses that Mr. Coyle has owned 

 were Tom Drew, 2:23 1-2; Wild Fern, trial 

 2:18 1-2: Billy Mack, 2:2-] 1-4; Ella Hal, 

 trotting, 2:19 1-4, pacing, 2:15 1-2. etc. Mr. 

 Coyle resides at 66 Pearl Street, Somerville, 

 Mass. 



in Greater Boston during the last nine years. 

 Doctor is Mr. Twombly's old standby. No 

 one has had more fun with a horse than has 

 Mr. Twombly with Doctor. His record for 

 a half-mile is 1 :0/ 1-2, made at the Charles 

 River Speedway, and his winning heats at 

 Combination Park were in 1 :io to 1:12. He 

 won the point prize for trotters in the Fells- 

 way Club the last four years. Mr. Twombly 

 also owns Manila Boy, 2:18 1-2, winner of 

 the point prize for pacers in the Fellsway 

 Club for 1914, and formerly owned Maud M., 

 2:15 1-2, another matinee performer of merit. 

 Mr. Twombly resides at Medford, Mass. 



E. R. WHITMAN 



E. R. Whitman, one of the early members 

 of the Fellsway Driving Club, was born in 

 Bethel, Maine. He started in business for 

 himself, in 1S55, at 10 and 12 Dorrance St., 

 Charlestown, Mass., where he is still located, 

 his line being store fixtures. He is a very suc- 

 cessful business man and has but one fad, the 

 enjoyment of a good horse. He has been very 

 prominent in the matinees at Combination 

 Park, and, in the last few years, has raced 

 considerable over the New England tracks. 

 Among tTie best horses that he has cam- 

 paigned, both in an amateur and professional 

 way. were Joe K.. 2:15 1-4; Pat 1., 2:16 1-2; 

 and Dorsey W., 2:23 1-4. Mr. Whitman re- 

 sides in Medford, Mass. 



C. E. TWOMBLY 



C. E. Twombly was born in Milton, N. H., 

 in 1869, and attended the schools of Dover, 

 N. H. His first work in Boston was with 

 Samuel Ward Co., stationers, in 1884, filling 

 the position of salesman. In 1894 he started 

 in the stationery and printing business for 

 himself, and for twenty years was located at 

 32 Hawley Street, Boston. He is at present 

 in the same business at 139 North Street, 

 Boston. 



Mr. Twombly was one of the charter mem- 

 bers of the Fellsway Driving Club, and has 

 held the position of secretary for the past 

 three years. He joined the Metropolitan 

 Driving Club in 19 10. He has been prom- 

 inent in the matinees at Combination Park, 

 and, in Doctor, he owns the matinee trotter 

 that has won as manv ribbons as anv trotter 



BRADFORD R. COBB 



Bradford R. Cobb was born in Westbrook, 

 Me., in 1840, and attended the schools of 

 that town. His first work in Boston was for 

 John Harwood, who run a boarding and 

 hacking stable in Fort Hill. This was in 

 1854. In 1 88 1 he opened a boarding and 

 hacking stable in Arlington Street, Chelsea, 

 where he remained until 1888, and then re- 

 moved to 615 Broadway, of the same city. 

 He was one of the early members of the 

 Fellsway Driving Club and joined the Metro- 

 politan Driving Club in 1909. He also be- 

 longs to the Masons, and the I. O. O. F. 



Mr. Cobb is one of the oldest road-drivers 

 in Greater Boston, and for forty years he 

 owned one or more trotters with abundance 

 of speed. His first trotter was Yankee Boy, 

 that forty years ago gained a reputation for 

 speed on the old Mill Dam. Then he had 

 Silver Street, 2:19 1-4; Orange Boy, 2:183-4; 

 Alice K., trial, 2:20; Dexter B., 2:241-4; 

 Bald Chief, and Sandy, that could pull two 

 men a mile to wagon in 2 135. 



In his boarding and hacking stable the 

 patrons were the leading horse owners of the 

 vicinity. At times the number of driving 

 horses run as high as seventy. When the 

 well known horseman, Edwin B. Rice, was 

 on the turf, he wintered his horses at Mr. 

 Cobb's stable, which included John M., 

 2:023-4; The Friend. 2:051-4; Orianna, 

 2:12 1-2: L. L. D., 2:09: Sufreet, 2:06 1-4; 

 Chief Wilkie. 2:123-4: Baron March, 2:15; 

 Eben L, 2 :22, etc. Looking over the list of 

 men who have driven their trotters down the 

 street incline from Mr. Cobb's stable are 

 noted the following: Alton E. Briggs, M. 

 Winton, Tom Taylor, Sam Orr, Dr. Kim- 

 ball, Peter Thomas, Tasper Kelley, Frank 

 N. West, Walter M. Rogers.' A. S. 

 Litchfield, Joseph Haskell, J. F. Ran- 

 dolph, Fred Berry, H. G. Stevens, and Will 

 Woodbury. Mr. Cobb resides at 42 Crescent 

 Avenue, Chelsea, Mass. 



