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FAIRSICKLE IN SALEM UPSET Shocks Large Rockingham Crowd by Winning Days Headliner. Cohort Miss and Moralist Engage Weant Bacer In Blanket Finish Hanford Biding Star. SALEM, N. H., May 21. Fairsickle, a win-ner of two in a row for Mrs. W. C. Weant at Arlington Downs last month, shocked a large off-day gathering at local Rockingham Park this afternoon as she raced to victory by inches over T. F. Swords Cohort Miss and Bill Gallaghers Moralist in the claiming, handicap feature of the program. The J. E. Widener-bred four-year-old was only a head in advance of the runner-up at the end, with the tiring Moralist a nose back in a blanket finish. The outsider in a field of five, Fair-sickle was light weight of the party under ninety-nine pounds and paid a mutuel of 8.50. Freddy Faust had the mount on the Weant representative and turned in one of the best efforts of the day. Hanford, -who earlier in the day had piloted three winners, narrowly missed making it four in this race, for he had Cohort Miss gaining steadily in the last few strides. A threat of rain which failed to materialize did not keep down the attendance. The downfalls of the favorites and not the elements have done most to dampen the patrons enthusiasm. Fairsickle turned in one of her best efforts in the feature under her light impost, running the mile and an eighth in the creditable time of 1:52. The start for the feature was done in quick time by Bob Frend, but Guapito left so slowly as to be far out of it in the first mile. Moralist, number two at the post, fell heir to the rail position as Guapito began sluggishly, and Seabo made the most of his advantage, coming right along with about a length advantage on Fairsickle, first of the others, in the first six furlongs. Cohort Miss was laying third going around the first turn .and down the back stretch. Turning for home, Faust on Fairsickle and Hanford on Cohort Miss moved at the same time, with Cohort Miss going outside Fairsickle and Moralist. The drive that ensued was a bruiser, with -Moralist steadily shortening strides, and Fairsickle crowding her nose in front a hundred yards out. Cohort Miss, on the outside, continued to gain, however, and just failed to get up in the final stride. The Flankman, a winner in the mud at Dallas, and making his first appearance at this meeting, was ridden out smartly by Carl Hanford to account for another purse in the five furlongs opening dash for plater two-year-olds. At the finish "Doc" Biddles Justice F. gelding was a length in advance of R. W. Collins Glitter Glow, which led Miss L. C. Whites Sighting Bar a similar margin for the third award. The last named was just up for the show over Hiatus, a 9 to 5 favorite. Microbe, a colt that could not beat White Cockade on Long Island, came to this park to show New Englanders what a good colt can do when he won the five furlongs of the second race, for which he was favored at even money. This offering brought to the post several of the most highly regarded juveniles on the grounds. Second, a neck back of, Microbe at the end, was H. T. Archibalds Black Mistress, which in turn beat the Wheatley Stables Seabiscuit by a nose. Spank was fourth in the field of nine. Squeeze Out, racing for the Jersey Stable and ridden by the contract rider Carl Hanford, scored a hard-earned narrow victory in the five and a half furlongs of the third race when he beat Arthur Hullcoats Proteus by a short nose in a long stretch drive. Third, a length off the two leaders and racing strongly, was G. S. Harrison, Jr.s Vee Eight, which would have been much harder to beat only for lack of racing room in the last eighth. The winner, an outsider in the "tote," paid 7.40. Speedmore still possesses a bit of class, though he has dropped down into the ,000 plater ranks. This he demonstrated by accounting for the race by a slim margin over the poorly ridden Gratton colorbearer, Hug Again. Nocturnlabe was a distant third in the field of half a dozen. Speedmore out-footed his rivals from the start and raced along a couple of lengths clear of Nocturnlabe and Hug Again,, his nearest rivals, in the run around the first turn and down the back stretch. He was running well within himself with his ears cocked straight in the air. Turning for home, however, Watson asked Hug Again to run and got quick response. That filly got to Speedmore about a furlong out and at the "sixteenth post appeared ready to go to Nthe front when Watson dropped her head to reach for his stick. This cost him the face.
