Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-02

calling their odds in a-manner calcu-
lated 10 attract and persuade. In re-
turn for five pound note. or n one
round note. or perhaps your Two ana
six In silver. you get bit OF num-
hered rastcboard, which may or may
not be worth preserving.
Newmarket is not race track in
the American sense. The grand stand
and surrounding enclosures seem
rather gathering station set in the
midst of never er-ending fields OF won
derfu'ly green and velvety turf. But
to the right there are the familiar
white rail fences which merge the
several slants or straightaway courses
into the home stretch. Witnessing the
start Of an English race is not vouch-
safed to the spectators. AS ii is n
mile race the horses start mile away
from the grand stand. If 1t is a mile
and a half race, they start mile and
a half away. The tracks here are
built for racing. not to afford spec
tacle. The racCgoer must lie content
with the brief struggle h sees in the
last hundred Yards or SO and the flash
past the winning post. Even this thrill
Is denied when occasionally the finish
line is moving n furlong or SO up the
track to conform 20 some century old
tradition.
During an afternoons racing this
year one could see on the tracks all
the Cclors long familiar to the English
courses, the primrose OF Lord Rose
berry; the black. white cap. Of Lord
Derby, the white, black sleeves, of the
Duke of Portland; the yellow, black
cap, of the duke of Westminster; the
blue and yellow hoops of Baron de
Kothschld, tho dark blue and buff
st!ipes Of the Earl of Jersey; the light
tlue and pink sash of Major Waldorf
Astor and the scarlet of Lord DCcies.
who married Miss Nivien Gould.
Each racing throng contains its,
share of khaki. officers or inland duty
OF home from the front on leave
Many of them. like Major AstOr, own
horses which are entered for the Vari-
Gus events.
Beautiful Scarchlight Spectacle.
The return to London from New
castel bv motor clearly makes up for
any thrills that may have been want
ing at the track First there is the
heddlong rush along the road to cove,
as many miles as possible before the
fast-setting sun robs the land OF its
protecting rays and night closes in.
For headlights in times of war arr.
taboo and the motorist must grope his
way thru the darkness as best he can
by the pale flicker of his screened
sidelamps. Some of the English
chauffeurs have become adopts In the
dark ard speed along ut twenty to
thirty miles an hour swerving sud-
denly now and then to avoid a dark
ened wagon or motor bound in the
opposite direction. To the novice from.
abroad this running thru the black
ness of night and the narrow escapes
from collision are anything but reas-
suring.
The outskirts of London NAV be
reached within that first hour OF dark
ness IN which the searchlights Of the
city's aerial defenses play in practice
so that they may he skiltully directed
against any intiuding Zeppelin that
may venture over III the later reaches
OF the night.
Sweeping in from the country the
spectacle of the searchlight canopy
over the city is one never to lie for
gotten. The blazing white beams shoot
from every angie. and some more
powerful than the rest, appear to be
impiously struggling to pry their Was
into the very mysteries OF heaven it
self. Great, broad bands of dazzlnC
daylight. they flash their way into
dark and mystic space. They cross
mterlace, turn and sweep with an eff
feet that no pyrotcchnic display ever
has attained. II is difficult to realize
that these mayvels have been called
into play by the grim business Of war,
rather than to thrill and mystify III
the spectacular brilliance of their dis
play.
BY the time the twisting. tortuou~
streets of the inner city are reached
the searchight trails generally are at
an end. and once again comes the slow
cropping thru the gloom.
A Gay or war time racing is day
OF striking contrasts.