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TURF AND FIELD CLUB SHRINE Elite of Social Circles in New York Belong to Belmont Parks Famous Organization. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 9— A lovely flower-bordered path leads across Belmont Parks tree-shaded paddock to the brightest shrine of sportsloving society in America— the home of the Turf and Field Club. Everyone who is anyone in the social set along the eastern seaboard is listed in the roster of the "Eight Hundred," members of sports swankiest club. New and old world traditions are blended gracefully at the Turf and Field Club. The club itself was founded in 1895 at old Morris Park. With the passing of that swank course, the club moved with the Westchester Racing Association to Long Island, where Belmont Park was built on the grounds of th? Manice estate. The Manice manor house and lawns were leased to the Turf and Field Club by the Westchester Association. There, on any sunny afternoon, one may glimpse through the rare old trees and colorful shrubbery the elect of the nations social set lunching under brightly-striped sun shades on the lawns. While vivacious members of the younger set chatter merrily of airplanes and transoceanic telephones, diesel-driven yachts and streamlined speed boats, there looms in the background as a reminder of old traditions the sprawling Manice manor, built in 1750 by an expatriated French family of that name. Overhead are the Cedars of Lebanon planted, so the legend goes, by the exiled Louis Phillipe while visiting the Manice mansion. Through the Turf and Field Club the social sids of racing has been highly cultivated at Belmont Park. On great stake days the members of the upper monde lunch on the old club grounds, stroll leisurely through the paddock while the thoroughbred horses are being saddled under the trees, and watch the races from a special enclosure in the stands. The Turf and Field Club already is planning a series of social affairs during the Belmont Park meeting, running from May 11 to June 6. The officers of the club are Henry W. Bull, president; A. H. Alexandre, vice-president; Deering Howe, honorary secretary, and H. A. Buck, secretary. Joseph E. Widener is president of Belmonts Westchester Racing Association, and C. V. Whitney, vice-president.
