THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUAFY 13, 1925.
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**Honry T. Dunker, of the Harvard olavon, is both an ablo athlete and scholar. Ho is prosidont of the student council and captain of the track team, and has just won the Franels H. Burr scholarship.
Betty Bowkor, of Wis- Babickon, Pa, in a senior at Wellesley College, but al though still a student who's riding master (or should wo
mistress) Bay
at that
footitution,
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Marcel Moreau, Fronch.. inventor of the Sun Furnace. which makes jowols from powders, wants his clock with bim when ho travels. So ho mado one two foot in diamotor, which packs away in the box he is holding. It weighs ona pound, and is so nicely balanced that a dollar watch in the contra runs it.
Captain His Highness Rajo Bahadur Srl Desat has bpon. invested with the ruling powers of the Maharajah of Savantvadi Stato in tho Bombay. Presidency. He's the first Maharajah the little stato has had in 100 years.
Lioutonant Harold R. Har- ris, chief pilot of McCook Field, Dayton, O., will be in the cockpit of the Borliner helicopter Amorica is entoring in the tests at Farnborough, - England, in the spring.
HOW JOSIDH A SMOOT MADE HIS DREAM COME TRUE.
MAN WHO NEVER MADE A BET ON A HORSE-RACE, BUILDS MILLION DOLLAR TRACK AT MIAMI
With the opening of the big mil- Hon dollar race course at Miami, January 16, the eyes of the sport. fog world turn to what promises to be America's show raco plant The opening also marks the ful fillment of the dream of J. M. Bmoot. wealthy man of Buffalo, who organized and built the new colossal institution for the #all known sport of kings.
At Miami, this winter the kings of the racing world will be seen, both men and horses. Luke Cas aldy, whose name is synonymous with horse-racing, to general man- ager of the Miami Jockey Club; while Mars Cassidy, who his start. ed more horses than any other liv Ing man is oficial starter, John 1. Day. America's well known racing. authority and writer, is presiding ateward and one of the directors.
Mr. Smoot, himself, is not a rac ing man, ile simply went down to Miami a year or so ago on a vacation and what he saw there Impressed his so much that he de elted that a high-class racing in- atitution ought to be provided for! the thousands of spart lovers who have helped make Miami famous. Yachting, golf, polo, Juí Alaj, ten- ! nis and other sports have attract. ed to Miami the cream In their re
pective lines. Now, this winter! the kings of the turf have their inning.
J. M. SMOOT PRES.
QUAM JOCKEY CLUB
JULIA
OWNED BY WIGN AND TRAINED BY JOHN ZOLLER
"IN THE "BOG" AND HOT DOG" OUT FÖR GALLOP ON THE MIAMI TRACK. JOCKEY'S JACK' THORADYKE AND C. AKERS
MIAMI |STABLES ARE
MOST UP-TO-
| DATE OF ANY
RACING INSTITUTION-
ATTA BOY!
VALADORE
STABLE OF WM. MARTIN
AND IRENE MAID,
If his first pair of roller akatos slide out from under him, Roy Haller, 4, of. Washington, D. C., wouldn't worry. Ho is equipped with pillow shock absorbors for emergencies.
SURF RIDER, OF THE B.B. JAMES STABLE, IN A WORKOUT
Bi M J. AYERS, FOREMAN
learly arrivals at the track were track would cater to only the host such well known steppers es element who enjoy the spurt of Rockyford. Flax, Half Pint and kings. The track, be sald, would Toppanite, of the William Wood-be a place where an atmosphere man's string, of New York. Sky- of dignity, high ideals of business, scraper. of the W. J. Booth stable and clean aport would always pro uf 9; Venus, leader of the J. R.jvail.
The Dixie Highway leads direct
race track construction and the Thornby Kentucky stablen; Pegas best to be seen anywhere in horre us, New Gold and Silver Slippertly to Miami frum several other racing.
of the, Audley Farms: Watch well-known Florida resorts. Many Tho stables are ballt in twenty-Charm and Red Wine, of the bic-millionaire sportsmen. going to one unita. seven of which consist Keover string, and others.
Florida in their yachts. live on (of thirty, stalls, and fourteen cos- Others are Miss Star, from the them and motor out to the track. isisting of GO stalls each... As soon Vanderbilt atables. Bud Fisher's only a fow minutes distance from
as the cold weather put an end to Nellie Morse, J. Richard's Spot Bay Biscayne. the fall race, meets in the north. Cash. Joseph Morrone's My Play. the horsos began appearing at Hoy and Nautical. Bilami and -some j tryouts, were Famous Racing Colors Seen. started, oven, while, the surface of The eclors of the greatest racing their railway system, built sp- the track was being worked down. stables ip America down at proximately five miles of railroad
Among the racers early quarter. Miami, this winter, include those direct to the plant and ed in the stabies at Hialeah, were of Mrs. W. K. Vanderblit, Mrs. gates of the racing plant have con- the many well known throughout the Fayne Whitney. Sam H. Harris.structed a loading and unloading country, shipped by owners whose theatrical, man, the Wilson-Salmon platform for horses and a passen- advance representativds placed string. the Rancocas and Widener per platform of some 1,500 Lest
The Florida East Coast Railway, recognizing the importance of this undertaking in connection with
It was seven o'clock one evening. when Mr. Smuot arrived in Miami Seeing the thriving winter cem munity and constantly increasing attendance. he dreamed of build- ing a great race track, shaded by palms and fanned by breeze from the blue waters of Biscayne Bay. Unacquainted with Mani, he pick- ed up the telephone directary and rending the advertisement of the First National Bank on the cover. introduced himself next day to Ed- ward C. Romfh, its president, wheat Buenos Aires and Havano, both lexclusive affair, accomodates one, overlooks every bit of the track, their approval on the Miami plant. atables, the former being those of in length to take care of passery- referred him to Frank B. Shutts. in beauty and speed possibilities. publisher of the Miami Herald and
thousand peragons Stables have It is elevated to a height that Several owners, who had first ship-Barry Sinclair the oil magnate; gers. the city's leading lawyer.
The track is located at Hialeah, been provided for more than one prevents those standing in front, of pe only one or two horses decid- the Corden and the Ward stabies. Mr.a suburb of the city of Miami, five thousand borses-and-tlse reserva- the grandstand from interfaringzied., on arrival, to ship more of
Thoir schedule includes train. Smoot told his plan to Mr. Shutts, and a half miles from the center tions promptly filled. them.
Among the well known Jockeys do luxe, operating between Palm who, believing nothing is impos-of the city. It is reached be five general plan of architecture is grandstand seats,,
The with the vision of those occupying their strings, iminediately. Includ-registered are "Little Johnnio" Beach, 70 miles distance, and the alble, and having proved it by what beautiful boulevards and our of Spanish and Venetian The com-
Ing thorongbbreds now at Havana, Collabor. Clarenco Eummor, Jobo-race course direct daily. he bimself has accomplished, ad the Florida East Coast Railrond. position of the track is unusual. an investment considerably over tracks.
The complete plant represents Tin Juans and Jefferson Park nie ̧· Mantes, Clarence Turner, Mr. Smoot, who is 49 years of vised him to "go to it.
Situated in the midst of pale and It rests on a deposit peculiar to a million dollars, the construction
Andy Shuttinger. E. Booble. Frank (age, and a native of Virginia, is Smoat Worked Quickly.
Among the bendline racers now Keough, & Lang, H. Tharber, Ivan well known throughout the United sub-tropical surrounding, Mr. Smoot works quickly. By the course in within sight of Bay Dis. years of a receding sea. Un this quarters of a million dollars. It aclior of the Ward stablas, who are equally well known.
the Florida, left by some thousands of alone costing approximately three at the Miami trock la Wise Coon- Parks and others whose names States. He is a man of large mi- afternoon of the following day he cayne, one of the most beautiful has been spread train-loads of required
fairs, who has achieved big things had his bank and legal connections bodies of water on the Atlant le mari from the Florida Everglades months of continuous work to ard, and is possibly the most wide supervision to every detail of the for years national Democratie com- approximately elesen beat the French race borse Epia-1 Mr. Smoot, who gave personal in the North. Norman E. Mack, established and the charter of the Coast, and in fanned by ocean nearby, making a surface smooth build the plant: Horse owners and ly known horse in America: an- track and buliding construction, mittesman from Naw York, is Miami Jockey Club under prepara-breezes from tion. He hastened north, organiz-which skirts the const of Florida. Ing to the racer's hoofa.
the Gulfstream as a Lable, hard, yet easily yield-trainers who have seen the mag-other star racer is In Memoriam, announced at the outset that the chairman of the board of directors ed his board of directors and re-near the old Spanleh Main.
nificent oval, pronounce it one of who beat the famous Zov, and with Miami meet would be conducted of the track. incl.ey
Other close 1259. turning to Miami in the following
The grandstand,
club, the finest tracks in the country Wise Counsellor as stablemates along the highest-class lines and ciates of Mr. Smoot are Wa Grand Stand Seats 3,090, November, the charter was grant
administration building and pad- and predict that it will be one of are Worthmore and Indian Trail. that none of the objectionable fes- Connors, owner of the Buffalo The truck is a mile oval with dock, are all of reinforce, concrete the fastest. Mr. Smoot gathered With In Memoriam is Great Jaxx, tures in vogue, at so many race Courier and Inquirer, and builder →→ ed. The result is that the tam three-fourths and Jockey Club is perhaps the finest fourth chates.
onc-and-one-construction, the grande and hav about him in the work the most of the Carl Weidemann string, tracks would be tolerated. He of the Connors Highway, from. race course in America; one that has
The grandstanding a novel apron-like roof alp-expert available talent in a lines, Sunshine and Sun, Altos head, the said the applications permit those Take Okeechobee, West Palm & seating capacity of Ave ported by a steel super structure, with a view to assuring to winter Llane string of about twelve in charge to select only the cream Beach, and General Char, D. New» rivals the world's famous tracks thousand. The club house, a very The 'concrete and steel andstand visitors to Miami the last word in horses. Among the scores of other of the American turf and that the Iton of New York State,
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