Sport: In Miami

Since he invented it in 1919, a Californian named Owen P. Smith and his heirs have made more than $2,000,000 out of the mechanical rabbit. There are now 30 greyhound racetracks functioning in the U. S., eight of which are in Florida where 1,000,000 people watch the races during the 90-day season. Miami, where there are more people who do not know what to do with themselves than anywhere else in the U. S., is now the U. S. greyhound-racing capital. Two thousand dogs are quartered there every winter. Filling stations give out...

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