. The driving clubs of greater Boston .. . T. LEE OUIMBY Secretary G. D. C. 1899-1914 (inclusive), and Sec- retary-Treasurer of League of Amateur Driving Clubs tary, T. Lee OuimlD}^; directors, George B. Inches, E. C. Swift, Harry Burnett, Charles Whittemore, John Shepard and B. F. Button. An initiation fee of $100 was one of the mo- tions passed at the meeting. This club held matinee races in the Summer months up to the close of 1913. Somerville was early in the field in the revival of matinee clubs, catching the fever through the construction of the Charles River Speedway, which was expected
. The driving clubs of greater Boston .. . T. LEE OUIMBY Secretary G. D. C. 1899-1914 (inclusive), and Sec- retary-Treasurer of League of Amateur Driving Clubs tary, T. Lee OuimlD}^; directors, George B. Inches, E. C. Swift, Harry Burnett, Charles Whittemore, John Shepard and B. F. Button. An initiation fee of $100 was one of the mo- tions passed at the meeting. This club held matinee races in the Summer months up to the close of 1913. Somerville was early in the field in the revival of matinee clubs, catching the fever through the construction of the Charles River Speedway, which was expected to be opened in the Summer of 1899. In January, of that year, it was organized, with the fol- lowing list of officers: President, W. F. Al- meder; vice-president, George M. Davis: secretarv, H. B. Furlong: treasurer, H. W. Litchfield: directors, L. H. Brown, R. D. Wentworth, Fred Preston, Bard Palmer and William Barstow. Though the Somerville Driving Club started out with brilliant pros- pects, yet only for a few years did it svirvive, internal dissension being the reported cause of its dropping out of existence. Another club among the list of those that have since outlived their usefulness, was the Shawmut Driving Club, which was instituted by the business men of the South End Dis- trict of Boston on March 15, 1899. Follow- ing the election of officers a petition was opened asking the Boston Park Commission- ers to set aside a strip of ground on the southerly side of Franklin Field to be used for a speedway. The officers of the club were: I^resident, E. A. Pickard; vice-presi- dent. Charles B. Wooley; treasurer, A. G. Robinson: secretarv, A. L. Stark: directors, A. G. Robinson, 'E. A. Pickard, M. A. Nevens, B. W. Stark, A. W. Davis, H. A. Haven and A. L. Stark. The club started with the membership of about eighty, but with the organization of the Dorchester Dri-s'ing Club a few months later, the active members of the Shawmut concluded that they could better aid in getting a s
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