The Myopia Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR - - anary 



EVENING DRESS Scarlet coat, canary facings 



MASTER - - George S. MandeU, Esq. 



SECRETARY W. H. Seabury, Esq., Somerset Club, Boston, Mass. 



HUNTSMAN ^ The Master 



WHIPPER-IN - Joe Banar 



HOUNDS - 20 couples. English 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE Hamilton, Mass. 



DAYS OF MEETING Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 



MORE than a quarter of a century ago, in the year 1 879, a few 

 mutually agreeable men were accustomed to meet at Win- 

 chester, Massachusetts, to play tennis and enjoy such other 

 outdoor sports as might suggest themselves. There they leased a small house 

 and formed a nucleus around which the Country Club of Brookline, — which, 

 by the way, is the pioneer Country Club in America, — was eventually or- 

 ganized. Hounds were suggested by Mr. F. H. Prince, who had hunted in 

 England, and in 1 88 1 a draft was brought from Montreal, and hunted by Mr. 

 Hugh A. Allan, the first Master. This first organization was called "The 

 Myopia Hunt Club," from the fact that most of its members were near- 

 sighted and wore spectacles in the field. The pack, which saved the or- 

 ganization from losing its identity on the formation of the Country Club, 

 continued at Brookline under the Mastership of Mr. Frank Seabury as 

 the " Myopia Foxhounds " — a wheel within a wheel, hunting part of the 

 season there and part in its present country around Hamilton, Massachusetts. 

 In 1 882, kennels were built in Hamilton, where the club first leased, and 

 afterward, in 1 89 1 , purchased the Gibney farm, of some hundred or more 

 acres. The old farmhouse is still the centre around which the present es- 



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