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EVERYTHING READY AT ROCKINGHAM PARK. Salcin, N. 11., .Tune 27. Racing will be inaugurated at Rockingham Park tomorrow when the New England Breeders Club will liegin its twenty-one day meeting. John A. Drake and ids associates have spent with a lavish hand at the Salem track. No expense lias been spared to make the plant a model one and many ot the horsemen here declare that when completed It will compare favorably with Belmont Park. There is yet some little work to lie done about the plant, such as fixing the roads and approaches. The buildings arc fully completed, however, and everything is in readiness for tomorrows opening. The one drawback to the meeting will be the restrictions which will be placed on the betting. The word lias gone out that no money will be permitted to pass and whatever wagering is done will be strictly on the credit system. Rockingham Park is about one hour and ten minutes from Boston nnd it is on that city that the club will mainly depend for its patronage. Judges Murphy and Ode arrived this, morning, while starter Dade Is expected-tomorrow morning.. Algernon Daingerlield. assistant secretary of the Jockey Club, got in from New York this morning and will attend to the many minor details that come with the opening of ji new meeting. W. P. Gilpin will be the patrol judge and his appointment lias proven popular. Some of the stables which woro expected from New York did not arrive. It was supposed that Biirlews Ilclnicre and Fullers Tokalon would be starters in the big race, but up to date they have failed to put in an apiearance. The fact that there will be no open betting permitted here and that M. M. Minton, president of the Providence track, has come out with an announcement that there will be no meeting at Nar-ragansett Park this year has kept many stables from shipping here. .
