The driving clubs of greater Boston drivingclubsofgr01linn Year: 1914 The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 79 SEASON OF 1912 At the annual election, the following were placed in office for the ensuing year: Presi- dent, Jas. F. Young; vice-president, S. A. Litchfield; secretary and treasurer, L. L. Kennedy; directors, B. C. Wilder, E. H. Waite, b, Frank Daley, H. P. Hobart; racing committee, D. Frank Daley, chairman, J. W. F. YOUNG President 1912 Ford, G. A. French, J. T. Buckley, W. H. Gilligan, A. R. Hobart, H. P. Miller, Thos. MacKenzie, C. H. Richards, S. B. Totman. In the sele
The driving clubs of greater Boston drivingclubsofgr01linn Year: 1914 The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 79 SEASON OF 1912 At the annual election, the following were placed in office for the ensuing year: Presi- dent, Jas. F. Young; vice-president, S. A. Litchfield; secretary and treasurer, L. L. Kennedy; directors, B. C. Wilder, E. H. Waite, b, Frank Daley, H. P. Hobart; racing committee, D. Frank Daley, chairman, J. W. F. YOUNG President 1912 Ford, G. A. French, J. T. Buckley, W. H. Gilligan, A. R. Hobart, H. P. Miller, Thos. MacKenzie, C. H. Richards, S. B. Totman. In the selection of James F. Young for president in 1912, the members of the Old Colony Driving Club thoroughly believed in recognizing a hard worker in the interests of the organization. President Young had been identified with the racing committee from the inception of the club. In 1909 he worked under Chairman E. H. Waite. The following year he accepted the office of chairman of that committee, which he held through 1911. Any person familiar with the duties of chairman of the racing committee realizes the difficulty of fulfilling the position to the sat- isfaction of the members racing horses. Pres- ident Young had accomplished this in a way that was almost miraculous. Far from being unpopular, he was really liked best by the men who had raced under him. Both as a handicapper and as the starting judge, he had become vastly more appreciated in their es- timation, his gijod judgment and diplomacy having made him a lot of friends. It was thus easy to see that the season of 1912 was destined to be one of the most pros- perous in the history of the Old Colony Driv- ing Club. President Young not only kept matters humming on the track, but in a social way. That Winter was held in Odd Fellows' Hall, Quincy, a banquet at which were in at- tendance the presidents and leading officials of other clubs in Greater Boston and Brock- ton. It was one of the real good times that so much help to cement i
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