The Elkridge Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR Old gold 



EVENING DRESS Scarlet coat, scailet facings, old gold collar 



MASTER Edward A. Jackson, Esq. 



SECRETARY Graeme Tumbuli, Esq., Woodbrook, Baltiniore County, Md. 



HUNTSMAN - Leo Gardell 



WHIPPER-IN Elmer Berlin 



HOUNDS 30 couples, half-bred English and American 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE Woodbrook. Baltimore County, Md. 



DAYS OF MEETING Wednesday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON October 1st to April 20th 



WHILE Philadelphia can perhaps boast of having more packs 

 of hounds within easy reach than any other city in America ; 

 the capital of Maryland, lying only some seventy-five miles to 

 the south, has every reason to be proud of the tvy^o hunt clubs which are 

 practically composed of Baltimore citizens. The older of these, the Elkridge 

 Hunt Club, to give it its full name, was organized in 1 878 through the efforts 

 of a little group of sportsmen who had been in the habit of taking their sport with 

 each other's hounds pretty much as it came, and without any definite fixtures. 

 On March 6th of that year, they formed themselves into an incorporated 

 organization for the furtherance of fox-hunting, and asked Mr. Murray Han- 

 son, one of the most enthusiastic of their number, to act as Master of Hounds. 

 This he did, and until his resignation in 1 880, showed that his election was 

 fully justified. Mr. William T. Frick filled the gap for the following season, 

 which was one of great importance to the new club ; for it was during that 

 year that Mr. George S. Brown and his son, Mr. Alexander Brown, began 

 to hunt wdth the Elkridge. 



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