New England Hall of Fame
///Harold Perkins Organizer		1978
Harold Lockwood Perkins, Springfield, Ma. Organizer. The first records available on Harold Perkins as an organizer were in 1925 when he was elected President of the Connecticut Valley Horseshoe League which played at Forest Part in Springfield. That same year he was appointed an honorary Vice-President of the N.H.P.A. and he was responsible for getting the Brattleboro Fair to apply to the N.H.P.A for a sanction for the New England Singles and Doubles Championships to be played at the Fair through 1928. In 1926 Perkins was elected President of the New England Association and he traveled around Ma., Vt. And New Hampshire promoting horseshoes. Starting in 1927 Perkins and his daughter started putting on exhibitions at Fairs and other fraternal outings and they continued these exhibitions up until 1937. Perkins won the 1926 New England Championship Singles title himself and he paired with John Fraser to win the New England Doubles championship in 1925 and 1926. He was the tournament Director for the 1927 and 1928 New England Singles Championship at the Brattleboro Fair and the 1930 Meet at North Attleboro, Ma. Perkins claimed to have perfected a ¾ turn open shoe in 1898 which was long before the date recognized by the N.H.P.A. The first open shoe ever pitched in a World Tournament was in 1921.