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MIAMI MACHINE INADEQUATE E. A. Weidekamp Cites Objections to Totalizator Now in Use at Popular Miami Course. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 13. Ervin A. Weidekamp, head of the pari-mutuel mechanics on the tracks of the American Turf Association, Churchill Downs, Latonia, Washington Park and Lincoln Fields, has just returned to his home here after an inspection of the Australian totalizator now in operation at Hialeak Park, Florida. Mr. Weidekamp says that he does not believe the totalizator employed at Hialeah will exactly "fill the bill" at the tracks of the American Turf Association on big days. "It handles the business of printing the tickets and keeping up the figures of the pool nicely enough when the play is moving along steadily, but with a rush, which is inevitable on days like that on which the Kentucky Derby is run, I do not believe it will do." According to Mr. Weidekamp, who was Bent to England and France last spring by Col. M. J. Winn to look over the totalizators on the English and French tracks, the one in use at Hialeah Park is scarcely any improvement over the foreign machines and those were not to that point of perfection which suited Colonel Winn after their faults were reported. "The greatest objection to the Hialeah totalizator is that it is entirely too easy to get jammed when asked to handle too many separate bets and as no machine is perfect in that respect it could cause an awful mess on a day like that on Svhich the Derby, is run. Again, it .would not take the smartest man in the world to duplicate tickets it issues and this is one of the most serious objections I have to it," said, Mr, Weidekamp,
