The Washington times., 1935-12-21
OHaraNOt
Type to
Fail
By KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

He Is an actual human De-
ing who laughs and plays and
Jokes and handles his money
as though it were made to
spend.
And with all of his wealth,
in one respect he's just like
we 59-cent dollar guys, be-
cause, when the long distance
operator calls to say his wife
would like to speak to him
from Boston. he Scrambles out
Of his chair and makes a bee,
line for the phone, even as you
and I.
am speaking of Good Time
Walter O'Hara, the Down East
boy who made a million manufac-
turing brass and copper gadgetS
and widgets and who isn't going
to be happy until he loses it build
ing race tracks and "Settin' 'em
up for the boys"
Getting a Gander at Walter
The sports writer's of Washing
ton got a preview of Good Time
Walter this week when he breezed
In from Boston to show us the
Benning race track Set-up which
he has in mind.
When you get a gander OF
Good Time Walter you are see
ing George Cohan and Jimmy
Walker, rolled into one.
The guy doesn't look a second
over 35, but how an infant Of
those years could have amaSSed
Good Time Walters fortune. say
nothing of that model race plant
which he owns and operates at
Narragansett Park, Pawtucket,
r. l.. I confess I am at a loss to
Justify.
But we'll skip that. 1t doesn't
make any difference anyway
how old he is. He looks 35, acts
30 and could be mistaken for
even a few years younger, at times!
Gift to King Horse
Good Time Walter is Americas S
most recent gift to the sport Of
kings. Thus a plain lad practi-
cally off the Boston Common
moves into the higher bracket Of
American induStries-improve
ment of the thoroughbred. This
seems to me to be quite a step
when you consider the fact none
Of his forefathers came over on
the Mayflower and that the breed
Is already being pretty we'll i'm
proved from year to year by such
as the Whitneys and the Widen.
erS, say nothing of the Guggen-
helms. He is of none of them.
He is of the O'Haras and in his
neck Of New England, that is
honor enough for any man.
Good-Time Walter impreSses as
being go-getter. That is prob
ably why so many people in the
know seem to think he has not
come to Washington to give rae
ing back to it with any idea of
failing.
WadS and ScadS
When you've got what it takes,
and Good-Time Walter has that
In wads as we'll as in Scads, they
tell me it is possible to accom-
pllSh almost anything, Uncle Tom
Yawkey, Of the Boston Red Sox,
TO the contrary Notwithstanding
The man knows he is going to
have opposition in Congress in
the Mary Norton racing bill to
reestabliSh racing at Benning, but
he's so sure this can be overcome
he's almost ready to order a
couple Of trainloads of cement,
sand, gravel. expansion bolts and
hitching posts.
He's going to win over his foes
in the State of Maryland, for in
stance, by buttering them thor
oughly on both sides with lib
eral coating of blarney, a talent
that only the Irish possess in full,
heaping measure.
For instance. on the opening
day at Bennings he will run a $685.
600 race called the "Cy" Cum
&A14A4So AAoALAANdPS
O'Hara'S Such a Cut-up
Shortly thereafter there will be
Instituted other racing fixtures
which will live on down in history
so that grandchildren and great
grandchildren can swell their
chests and point with pride to
the fact that big Benning stake
was named for their forbears.
There will be the Senator Tyd-
ings Futility, for instance, and
possibly the Governor Ritchie Me-
mortal, or even. as far as I know,
the Governor Nice Inaugural, and
all such as that. You see, Good
Time Walter O'Hara is nobody to
forget his friends. He may even
name yacht, yet, for Mayor
Howard Jackson. And as a final
gesture of gratitude for the help
he expects to get from Maryland
in legalizing horse racing and
pari mutuel wagering in Wash
ington. I understand Good-Time
Walter expects to have a lake in
the Benning infield, infested with
terrapin, in mimicry of Joe
Widener's trained flamingoes at
Hialeah Park.
Oh, that Good Time Walter
O'Hara is a cut-up! He is a eau
ton! You really should meet him!
D. A.