The Radnor Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE UNIFORM Brown coat, light gray collar. Hunt buttons 



EVENING DRESS Scarlet coat, light gray collar and facings 



MASTER W. Hinckle Smith, Esq. 



SECRETARY Harry W. Harrison, Esq. 



HUNTSMAN - WUl Davis 



WHIPPER-IN - - - - George Donnon 



HOUNDS 40 couples, American 



KENNELS - 3 miles south of Bryn Mawr, Pa. 



POST-OFFICE - Bryn Mawr, Pa. 



DAYS OF MEETING Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and aU holidays 



LENGTH OF SEASON October 15th to March 15th 



UNDOUBTEDLY the largest and most widely known organiza- 

 tion of its kind m the neighborhood of Philadelphia is the Rad- 

 nor Hunt. It is also next to the oldest, being antedated only by 

 the Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club. As now organized, it had its origin in 

 a pack of hounds kept for many years at the old Pugh farm, near the 

 present kennels, by one of Pennsylvania's sterling old Quaker farmer sports- 

 men, Thomas Mather (no relation to the later M. F. H.). 



Messrs. James Rawle and Horace and Archibald Montgomery, who resided 

 in the neighborhood, started hunting with Mather's hounds about 1 880 and 

 they in time introduced some of their friends, — Messrs. Cooper Smith, R. 

 E. Hastings, Maskell Ewing, Theodore Justice, Edmund H. McCullough, 

 Edward F. Beale, Carroll Smythe, Charltan Yarnall, C. E. Mather and 

 others, — and as these things so often do under happy circumstances, the sport 

 grew in favor with these men until they became regular in their attendance 

 with the hounds, occasionally helping with the expenses, then becoming 

 regular contributors, and finally, at Mr. Rawle's suggestion, the present home 



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