Evening star., 1940-12-08
Stage Is Set
For Crowds
At Miami
December to See
Resort Program
In Full Swing

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 7.-One hun
dred and fifty thousand persons,
working night and day during the
past four months. have set the stage
for what is expected to be Miami's
greatest season. The city was
founded 43 years ago. Already Flag
Ter street, Miami's Broadway, has
begun to look like the middle of
January, so advanced are the crowds.
But the visitors are not all from the
North. This year, about 10 per cent
are from Central and South America.
On Thursday the first group of
professional and amateur golfers will
tee off on the Miami Springs Golf
Course to start the $4,000 18th
annual Miami open golf classic,
one of the richest in the world. This
year more than 22O entrees will
compete against the Sammy Sneads,
Ben Hogans, Gene Sarazens, Craig
Woods, Denny Shutes, and the
Horton Smiths.
Four Dog Tracks to be
In Operation by 1941.
Dog racing started here this week
to last five months, on four of the
nations finest tracks. The first to
open was the Hollywood Kennel
Club. On December 27, three more
dog tracks will open, the West Flagler
Kennel Club. the Miami Beach
Kennel Club and the Biscayne
Kennel Club. These four tracks
bring to Miami $500 greyhounds
and attract over 100000 spectators
who bet s12,O00,o00 plus.
Football, which Miamians have
been taking in nightly doses, four
times weekly this season In the
Orange Bowl Stadium, will reach
climax January l. when the Orange
Bowl interscholastic football cham
pionship is played.
On December 20, Tropical Park,
Miami's beautiful horse racing plant,
will open for Is days closing January
7. On January Hialeah race track,
a world famous rendezvous for horse
lovers, will formally open with the
Hialeah Park $1,000 added stakes
feature. Hialeah will run races daily
for 46 days closing March 2. On
March 3, Tropical Park will open
and run until April 10. This will
give Miami visitors 96 days of horse
racing.
Orange Bowl Festival
Opens December 81.
Outstanding in the free entertain
nent the city fathers have prepar-
ed is the Orange Bowl Sun Festival,
which lasts for one week starting
December 81. A gala night street
festival. The next day. January l,
parade starting at 7:30 in downtown
Miami will bring together more than
so illuminated floats, 40 bands and
A state wide contest is now in pro-
gress to select the queen of the
festival The next day, January l,
will be the annual Orange Bowl
football classic at o'clock. Tropical
Park out of courtesy to the Orange
Bowl Committee will again run the
days horse racing program in the
morning at 10 o'clock, enabling foot
ball enthusiasts to take in both
events.
On January the annual Orange
Bowl night marine pageant will take
place. More than 200 boats, palatial
yachts and roWboats, will parade
alongside Miami's county causeway.
Next on Miami's S8,000,000 sports
and entertainment program is the
18th Annual All-American Air Races
at the Municipal Airport, January
10, II and II. Last year some 900
privately owned planes flew here to
attend the meet. This year $500
are expected. The Army and Navy
are expected to participate with ex-
hlbitions OF dive bombing, dog fight
ing and mass maneuvers.
On January II, the final day of the
afr races, the 9Th Annual Metropoli-
tan Fishing Tournament will get
underway with a parade of fishing
craft out the Causeway channel to
the Gulf Stream. There are $4,000
In prizes.