61. Dania Jai Alai Dania Jai Alai news and information. Dania Jai Alai is located in Dania Beach, Florida and offers daily betting on jaialai. http://dania-jaialai.com/

var so = new SWFObject("images/swf/dania_title.swf", "movie", "363", "51", "6"); so.write("daniaJaiAlai"); Dania Jai-Alai Jai-Alai offers breathtaking action on jai-alai, the Basque game that many refer to as "the game of a thousand thrills". You can now bet on the dazzling exploits of Dania's all-star roster of pelotaris from the comfort of your home. When Dania Jai-Alai opened in 1953, it was only the second jai-alai fronton in the United States. It is located in the city of Dania Beach, also known as the "Antique Shopping Center of South Florida" and is just 10 minutes away from Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood, Florida, and only 30 minutes north of Miami's South Beach. Dania current 220,000 square foot "Showplace of Jai-Alai" has comfortable seating for 5,600 and boasts a sports bar, a simulcast betting facility, restaurants, banquet facilities, cocktail lounges, bars, snack bars and acres of well-lighted parking. Annual attendance is over 500,000. Due to its prominence in the Florida Jai-Alai scene, tournaments held in Dania are always highly-anticipated. Among the major ones are: the

62. 1930 Time Magazine Jai-Alai Article (Ugalde) x. The Weekly Newsmagazine January 13, 1930 DOMINGO ( THE FOX ) UGALDE Sometimes they have to climb up the screen like monkeys. (See SPORT) Jai Alai http://rsbassociates.home.mindspring.com/time/time1930.htm

x The Weekly Newsmagazine January 13, 1930 DOMINGO ("THE FOX") UGALDE Sometimes they have to climb up the screen like monkeys. (See SPORT) Jai Alai (See front cover) pelota (ball). The game became the main diversion of so many festivals that the Basques gave it another name, now mispronounced all over the world, meaning "merry festival" jai alai (pronounced high lie From wall to wall the little trapped ball, hard as a modern golf ball, smaller than a modern baseball a Turk's head of plaited rubber strips sewn in a membrane of goatskin flew so hard that it hurt bare hands. The players took to wearing gloves, then invented and strapped to their throwing wrists a long shallow wicker basket (called cesta ), hooked like a giant's fingernail. The length of the throwing arc added speed to the little ball, heightened the game's excitement, sent it back across the ocean with other Spanish improvements to Mexico City, where it ranks next to bullfighting; to Havana, where another season of it is now in full stride. From Havana it reached Miami, where at the Biscayne Fronton matches began again fortnight ago and will continue during the winter visiting time. Nightly, also it is played in the Chicago Fronton on Clark Street and Lawrence Avenue. As the little ball flies the spectators become wildly excited and go home later to tell of the new winter game that has come to the U. S., saying that it is the fastest game in the world.

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