The first woman ever to head and govern an international sport and first woman to be inducted into the Greyhound Hall of Fame (2004)www.greyhoundhalloffame.com.
Thomas Keen, a mechanical engineer who built most of her husband's, Owen P. Smith, Greyhound Racing tracks once told a St. Louis Star reporter that Hannah was entitled to as much credit as her husband for the success of greyhound racing: “After you have labored with an idea for three or four years, and have met one rebuff after another and the bank-roll is practically gone, it takes a strong influence to keep up the old spirit. Mrs. Smith gave her husband the aid and encouragement that spelled the difference between failure and success.” Six months after her husband’s death, she became High Commissioner of the International Greyhound Racing Association and the newspapers reported that Mrs. Smith “has the last word to say in governing seventeen tracks scattered through this country, Canada and England” and “takes a keen interest in dog racing and is recognized as an authority on the sport.”
Besides running the business, Mrs. Smith also continued the many lawsuits instituted by her late husband against people accused of infringing on his patents. She issued a statement declaring she would “fight the battle with all her strength and financial resources,” and pursued lawsuits all the way to the Supreme Court to ensure her husband’s name was retained as inventor and founder. (Some Content taken from and article by the National Greyhound Racing Association, "Greyhound Review, 2004".
Thomas Keen, a mechanical engineer who built most of her husband's, Owen P. Smith, Greyhound Racing tracks once told a St. Louis Star reporter that Hannah was entitled to as much credit as her husband for the success of greyhound racing: “After you have labored with an idea for three or four years, and have met one rebuff after another and the bank-roll is practically gone, it takes a strong influence to keep up the old spirit. Mrs. Smith gave her husband the aid and encouragement that spelled the difference between failure and success.” Six months after her husband’s death, she became High Commissioner of the International Greyhound Racing Association and the newspapers reported that Mrs. Smith “has the last word to say in governing seventeen tracks scattered through this country, Canada and England” and “takes a keen interest in dog racing and is recognized as an authority on the sport.”
Besides running the business, Mrs. Smith also continued the many lawsuits instituted by her late husband against people accused of infringing on his patents. She issued a statement declaring she would “fight the battle with all her strength and financial resources,” and pursued lawsuits all the way to the Supreme Court to ensure her husband’s name was retained as inventor and founder. (Some Content taken from and article by the National Greyhound Racing Association, "Greyhound Review, 2004".
The first woman ever to head and govern an international sport and first woman to be inducted into the Greyhound Hall of Fame (2004)www.greyhoundhalloffame.com.
Thomas Keen, a mechanical engineer who built most of her husband's, Owen P. Smith, Greyhound Racing tracks once told a St. Louis Star reporter that Hannah was entitled to as much credit as her husband for the success of greyhound racing: “After you have labored with an idea for three or four years, and have met one rebuff after another and the bank-roll is practically gone, it takes a strong influence to keep up the old spirit. Mrs. Smith gave her husband the aid and encouragement that spelled the difference between failure and success.” Six months after her husband’s death, she became High Commissioner of the International Greyhound Racing Association and the newspapers reported that Mrs. Smith “has the last word to say in governing seventeen tracks scattered through this country, Canada and England” and “takes a keen interest in dog racing and is recognized as an authority on the sport.”
Besides running the business, Mrs. Smith also continued the many lawsuits instituted by her late husband against people accused of infringing on his patents. She issued a statement declaring she would “fight the battle with all her strength and financial resources,” and pursued lawsuits all the way to the Supreme Court to ensure her husband’s name was retained as inventor and founder. (Some Content taken from and article by the National Greyhound Racing Association, "Greyhound Review, 2004".
Thomas Keen, a mechanical engineer who built most of her husband's, Owen P. Smith, Greyhound Racing tracks once told a St. Louis Star reporter that Hannah was entitled to as much credit as her husband for the success of greyhound racing: “After you have labored with an idea for three or four years, and have met one rebuff after another and the bank-roll is practically gone, it takes a strong influence to keep up the old spirit. Mrs. Smith gave her husband the aid and encouragement that spelled the difference between failure and success.” Six months after her husband’s death, she became High Commissioner of the International Greyhound Racing Association and the newspapers reported that Mrs. Smith “has the last word to say in governing seventeen tracks scattered through this country, Canada and England” and “takes a keen interest in dog racing and is recognized as an authority on the sport.”
Besides running the business, Mrs. Smith also continued the many lawsuits instituted by her late husband against people accused of infringing on his patents. She issued a statement declaring she would “fight the battle with all her strength and financial resources,” and pursued lawsuits all the way to the Supreme Court to ensure her husband’s name was retained as inventor and founder. (Some Content taken from and article by the National Greyhound Racing Association, "Greyhound Review, 2004".
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