An Opening Ceremony and Some Races, but Apparently Not the Real Thing Some days ago cards were sent out by the directors -of the Far Eastern Recreation Chub announcing. the formal opening of the club to take place on Sunday. Sima'- taneously, advertisements appeared in various newspapers issuing a general invitation to the public on "the completion of our building, grand stand and race course." Thi certainly seemed to indicate the much-delayed start of the long talked-of "Yangtszepoo Race Club."
'Our racing representative,—who fancies he knows something' about anything that has to do with racing locally, admits to having backed a loser, for evidently there is a difference between the "Recreation Club" and the "Race Club." It was a bitterly cold day and first impressions on arriving et the course twenty minutes before the advertised hour of the formal opening—1_p.m.—were not very cheerful. There were then perhaps 80 people wandering about the grand stand and as many mara in th com, mittee rooms. In the rooms, the stables and anywhere else where they could shelter from the wind, were hundreds of police, soldiers and Chinese boy scouts, feeding apparently against time. There was not a stove anywhere at which one could warm and nothing for other visitors to eat or drink except little sugar cakes and ten which bad to be ordered twice and then there was a wait of 40 minutes before the mild comfort arrived.
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