THE MYOPIA 



tablishtnent has been formed, and represents the spirit of the club, which is 

 that new ideas should be grafted on the old, — not supplant them. 



At first there were paper-chases as well as fox-hunts ; but in 1 885, 

 beagles were presented to the club by Mr. George H. Warren, and the 

 drag was first introduced. After 1 889, there was very little fox-hunting, as 

 the growing up of the community and the unfitness of the country precluded 

 the best of sport. 



The Club's present name — " The Myopia Hunt Club " — assumed on its 

 incorporation in 1 89 1 , somewhat belies its scope. In 1 888, polo was intro- 

 duced, which puts it among the earliest organizations to take up that sport. 

 Interest in polo is still unabated, and the club had the honor of having one 

 of its members, Mr. R. L. Agassiz, on the all-American team which visited 

 England in 1903. In 1894, golf became popular, and the Myopia links to- 

 day, an I8-hole course, stand among the best in the country. In 1902, 

 a court tennis building was erected, and this has been well supported; fur- 

 nishing a connecting link in the series of sports which is making Myopia a 

 winter as well as a summer centre of sport and sociability. For all these 

 recreations the members find enthusiasm and in them take an equal pride. 

 The regular membership of the club is 1 00, with an associate membership 

 to meet such requirements as may arise through a changing colony of summer 

 residents on the North Shore. 



Of course, all this information about the club is very interesting, but since 

 it is as a Hunt Club that we are considering Myopia, the hounds and ken- 

 nels are the things of most importance. 



Mr. W. H. Seabury, the secretary of the Hunt, is a brother of Mr. Frank 

 Seabury, who acted as Master from 1 883 to 1 892 ; and who, during his 

 long Mastership, took such pains to get the landowners interested in the hunt- 

 ing that it has been little trouble for the Masters who have followed him to 

 hunt over a country which is made up for the most part of small holdings. 

 The New England farmer is at heart usually a most good-natured individual, 

 but he has rather a horror of any innovation, particularly if it has to do v«th 

 his ancestral foe. There are some men who, till they understand hunting, are 

 absolutely inimical to the sport. Fox-hunting, as they know it, consists in 



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