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I I 1 1 j I , j FINAL WEEK AT ROCKINGHAM | All Mutuel and Attendance Records Broken at Popular New Hampshire Track — Handicap Finale. SALEM. N. H., July 23.— Rockingham Park began its final week of the summer meeting today, with all records for attendance and mutuel play shattered. Prospects for the final week are brilliant. Good fields will go !■ the post in the Dartmouth Handicap Wednesday and the curtain will be rung down Saturday with the Rockingham Park Handicap, ,500 added, the outstanding feature. All the Rockingham Park favorites, including Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitneys Jabot, Collateral and Roustabout, the Belair Studs Faireno and Fleam, Willis Sharpe Kilmers Dark Winter, F. S. Griffiths Sa-, , rada, Abe Bartclsteins Teralice and the Wheatley Stables Dark Secret, the son of Flying Ebony, which conquered Equipoise in The Jockey Clubs Gold Cup at Belmont Park last year, have been named for the final stake of the season. Others nominated are Mrs. F. A. Carreauds Time Supply, the bay son of Time Maker — Surplice, and Sea Fox, chestnut son of Man o War, which won the Hampton Cup Handicap Saturday. Mrs. J. Burke also has nominated Flying Cadet and J. Badame named Khorasan. Two new Rockingham Park starters probably will be seen in the Dartmouth Handicap Wednesday, F. Serembas Zekiel and C. V. Whitneys Halcyon. The Wheatley Stable will start Dusky Princess and the better known Slapdash. Other nominees in-elude J. Simonettis Sgt. Byrne, Catawba Farms Good Advice, W. H. Gallaghers Star Fire, C. V. Whitneys Jabot, High Glee and Trumpery, F. A. Carreauds De Valera, A. Bartelsteins Chinese Empress, P. F. Rattis Black Hand, T. M. Cassidys Universe and A. A. Baronis Flying Sailor. Other features of the final weeks racing will be two ,000 races Tuesday, the Lowell Claiming Purse Thursday and the Haverhill Claiming Handicap, 2,00, at six furlongs Friday. Managing director Lou Smith and secre-, tary Jim Monroe are enthusiastic about the success of the meeting and declare that the fall sport will surpass it.
