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1863-1946. A native of Ireland, Governor (1911-15) John K. Tener of Pennsylvania was deep into baseball. He had been a professional ball player for Chicago, and even while Governor he also served as President of baseball's National League. He is shown here with his wife, Harriet, whom he married in 1889. She died in 1935. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_Tener

Wystan, Thanks for the additional information on Gov. Tener and his wife, and for providing the date from the side of the negative. It turns out this is one of those cases we find where the date on the negative is not the same as the date of the event shown. This is Gov. Tener and wife Harriet at Game 2 of the 1913 World Series between the Philadelphia Athletics and New York Giants, which took place on Oct. 8, 1913, rather than Oct. 9, 1913 as noted on the negative. (Game 2 took place at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, PA while Game 3 took place the next day at the Polo Grounds in Brooklyn, NY. This photo shows Shibe Park based on the seating and other related photographs.) We'll update the description with more detail when we work on this record.

It appears to have been the case, frequently if not invariably, that Bain's crew would date the negatives on the day that prints were made to be sent to subscribers; in the case of breaking news, this often involved a one-day time lag.

On November 19, a few weeks after the photo was taken, Governor Tener accepted appointment as President of baseball's National League. The appointment was ratified by a convention of National League team owners in New York City, December 9 and 10, 1913:

Another Bain/LOC photo of Gov. Tener at the ballpark -- this time in 1914, at Ebbets Field:

Roamer was a bay gelding foaled in 1911, bred by the Clay Brothers in Kentucky. He was named Roamer due to the circumstaces of his birth. It was an accidental breeding - somehow, the farm's 'teaser' stallion (a stallion of low value used to test if mares are in heat, who is rarely used for actual breeding), aptly named Knight Errant, got in with a blind mare named Rose Tree II. After being claimed at age two by owner Andrew Miller, Roamer began to blossom. He raced from 1913 to 1919, winning 39 of 98 races. His best year was 1914, when he won 12 of 16 starts and was the year's leading money earner. He set five track records and won many notable races, including the Travers Stakes, Carter Handicap, and three Saratoga Cups. Some press accounts called him "The Wonder Horse of the Decade". Roamer died in 1920. While being rested on a farm in New Jersey, he slipped in an icy pasture, broke his leg, and had to be destroyed. He was inducted to the Racing Hall of Fame in 1981. This photo pre-dates Roamer's fame - in fact, it shows the day his fortunes changed. The jockey here is Thomas McTaggart. The only time he ever rode Roamer was in a claiming race at Belmont Park on July 15, 1913. They won, "much the best", by four lengths, and Miller claimed him for $2,000. He would go on to earn $98,828.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roamer

The whipped cream of New York society turned out in October, 1912, for the eleventh annual horse show at the Piping Rock Country Club, in Locust Valley, on the north shore of Long Island. A new clubhouse and stepped observation boxes had just been opened for their pleasure: Story in The New York Times, October 4, 1912: "SOCIETY AMATEURS IN THE SADDLE "Piping Rock Horse Show Attracts Hunting Set to Locust Valley Grounds" query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D06E1D6113BE6... Another story in The New York Times, October 5, 1912: "SOCIETY AIDS AT PIPING ROCK SHOW "Notable People View Amateur Horse Exhibition Amid Long Island Hills" query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9506E6D7113AE6...

Beatrice Byrne, 1918: