The Washington times., 1935-01-17


The Hibiscus in every tinge Of
purple and pink!
The Bouganville, clinging to the
Spanish columns of twisted stone
and towering over to form an
arch between each span!
The even beds of small flowers
setting off the carpet of green and
the fresh.laid tanbark silhouetting
winding walks twixt paddock and
clubhouse and grandStand and
lawn!
Those shimmering date palms
rattling their glazed branches in
the soft, tropical breeze as daintily
as a lady'S skirts in an old-time
minuet!
And the taller stately royal
palms nodding at you from the
spacious infield with its mirror
lakes and wild fowl-flamingo of
delicate pink and white swan nat
uralized from the nearby ever
glades!
I came out here early this morn
Ing to give private look at what
nature and Mr.. Joseph E. Wild
ener'S three-million bankroll have
accomplished in the brief span of
less than half dozen years and
when the crowd which promises to
reach 10000 before the day is over,
started to move in in their gleam-
ing Royces and Packards and
CadillacS, as we'll as Chevrolets
and V.8s, it found me still gaping,
and for all I know talking to
myself.
The Worlds Most Lovely
There are some race tracks in
this country I've never seen, and
for those I must take the word of
others that none compares in
beauty and grandeur with the
thoroughbred plant here in what
six years ago was as forlorn a
looking piece of desert as you'd
find this side of the Sahara and
what today is a fantastic feStoon
Of sublime coloring and tempted
architecture that would do credit
to Barcelona, Madrid or old world
capital.
These items, my friends are only
Surtace-the hall marks to Amer
ica's finest sports spot-but be-
meath these veneers of exotic and
exquisite, yea seductive optical
anurements, are the physical and
mechanical perquiSites to we'll
night perfect race course.
The AuStalian totalizer, first in
troduced to America at this track
three years ago and initiated in
the majority of the nations more
modern plants is an institution de-
signed to give the race-going pub.
lie quick. accurate odds in the
choices they wager.
This is the last word in race
track equipment and if anything,
is more intriguing if not intricate,
from a standpoint of mechanics,
than the Merganthaler linotype
machine on which these words are
being delivered to you.
And the horses!
Oh, yes, the horses!
What would a race track with
all Of the Columbines and wis
terra in the world be without
horses!
Well, the horses are here, and
to prove it, let me recite just a
lew OF the stables occupying the
expansive stalls which flank the
avenida de las palms, the vista
like grand entrance to Hialeah it.
self.
Cream of the Crop
For instance, Mr.. widener's
string Che is president and chair
man of the Hialeah board of
directors) is here in full strength
as are those of Mrs. John Hay
Whitney, William Woodward, of
Belair Stud, Mrs. Henry C.
Phipps' and ogden Mills Wheat
ley stable, B. B. Jones Audley
Farms, Marshall Fields, Admiral
Carey T. GraySon, P. A. Nash's
Shandon Farm, George A. Wide
4lSI, M1S' r. "A. d. WlQSn6r, VIII
liam Ziegler, jr.. Willis Sharpe
Kilmer, George Pete" Bostwick,
Hal Price Headley, Damon Run
yam, Jack Dempsey and all of
the other top-notch improvers of
the breed.
A solarium section seating
1850 spectators has been added
to the Hileah Set-up, combining
some of the features of the
beaches and all of the Sportive
qualities of a race track.
And thus, Kialeah claims to
have essentials to suit the tastes
of ala picture park, fine horses.
quick, accurate odds boards,
Simplified betting. chasEning pa
irons, sunshine seatsIand win
ners for those who can pick 'em,
with respect to which I cordially
refer you to Paddock's selections
every day in The Times.