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- -- -- -- -- -- -- - I SOCIETY IN FULL FORCE I AT HIALEAH PARK MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 24. When Joseph E; Widener, president of the Miami Jockey Club, and Mr. and. Mrs. P. A. B. Widener of Philadelphia and New York, attend the opening of fashionable Hialeah Park on Wednesday, January 11, they will be surrounded with the nations most celebrated figures in the social, financial, political, ! sports and theatrical spheres. i Hialeah annually becomes the mecca of societys elite. It is Newport, Palm Beach, Saratoga, Miami Beach and Belmont Park rolled into one fashionable gathering spot The forthcoming mid-winter season of forty-six days, January 11 to March 4, will be no exception in the point of social register patrons and whos who in America. President Widener today released the complete list of season box holders. The demand for box accommodations far exceeded the number available. Interest in the forthcoming meeting is at a high pitch due largely to the many famous thoroughbreds which will be on hand to participate in the daily programs and in stakes. The possibility of another meeting of Charles Howards Seabiscuit and Samuel D. Riddles War Admiral has created additional zest among turf patrons. Other ranking racers j nominated for The Widener Challenge Cup j of 0,000 added value, which will climax the eleven stake features on March 4, are Herbert M. Woolfs Lawrin, Kentucky Derby winner; Mrs. W. Plunket Stewarts Pasteurized, hero of the Belmont Stakes; E. E. Fogelsons Dauber, winner of the Preakness; Maxwell Howards Stagehand, Santa Anita Handicap victor and leading money-winning horse of 1938, and Alfred Gwynne Vander-bilts Heelfly, which ran Seabiscuit to a dead heat in the Laurel Stakes of, 1937.
