The Grafton Hounds 



(MR. SMITH'S) 



DISTINCTIVE UNIFORM Gray 



EVENING DRESS Scarlet coat, gray collar 



MASTER Harry W. Smith, Esq., Grafton, Mass. 



HUNTSMAN :. The Master 



WHIPPERS-IN - \ l'\ S Gibree 



( 2nd, N. Elsey 



HOUNDS - 1 5 couples, American 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE Grahon, Worcester County, Mass. 



DAYS OF MEETING - - Three days a week 



LENGTH OF SEASON - August 1st to January 1st 



THE Grafton Hounds, which are a private pack, the property of 

 Mr. Harry W. Smith, were first established in 1904. The 

 Grafton Country Club, which was in some ways the excuse for 

 the Grafton Hounds, had been formed some years earlier, and among the 

 other sports encouraged there, fox-hunting took a prominent place. 



Mr. Smith, at one time an extensive breeder of wire haired fox-terriers, 

 and later an amateur trainer and jockey of much note, seemed to be ad- 

 mirably fitted for the position of M. F. H., and when he offered the Club 

 the use of his small private pack — to be called the Grafton Hounds — they 

 were most wiilmg to accept. 



Becoming very much interested in the American type of foxhounds, Mr. 

 Smith endeavored, in 1 904, to rejuvenate the Brunswick Fur Club, under 

 the name of the Brunswick Foxhound Club, and to make its aim the establish- 

 ing of an American type of foxhound. Men like Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., 

 James Maddux and General Edward Morrell were induced to join the Club, 

 and Mr. Smith brought before a meeting the following motion : — 



" Voted, that the standard of American Foxhounds as adopted by the 



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