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NO CONFLICT IN DATES New England Tracks Agree Upon Schedule of 166 Days Racing. Continuous Sport Beginning- at Nar-ragansett Park May 2 and Ending at Same Track Nov. 11. BOSTON, Mass., April 3. There will be no conflict in racing dates in New England this year. With the announcement today of two meetings of the New Hampshire Jockey Club at Salem and a revised calendar at Suffolk Downs, there will be a total of 166 days of continuous sport at the three courses in this section. The season will open May 2 at Narragansett Park, and close at the same track November 11. There will be three meetings at Narragansett Park, two at Rockingham Park and one at Suffolk Downs. The complete schedule for New England follows : Narragansett Park May 2 to May 23 19 days. Rockingham Park May 25 to June 13 18 days. Suffolk Downs June 15 to August 14 53 days. Narragansett Park August 15 to September 26 37 days. Rockingham Park September 28 to October 22 22 days. Narragansett Park October 23 to November 11 17 days. The three meetings at Narragansett Park will embrace seventy-three racing days; Rockingham Park gets forty days, and Suffolk Downs gets fifty-three days. The Narragansett Racing Association and Eastern Racing Association co-operated with the New Hampshire Jockey Club, with permission from the respective state commissions in working out the non-conflict schedule. To effect this Narragansett Park reduced its fall meeting by four days, opening October 23 instead of October 19, as originally planned. Suffolk Downs surrendered one day to Rockingham Park, Saturday, June 13, on which date the long meeting Continued on eighth page. NO CONFLICT IN DATES Continued from first page. of the former track was to have opened. The Pilgrim Handicap, ,500 added, three-year-olds and upward, six furlongs, which was to have been the feature on June 13 at Suffolk Downs, has been put back to June 15. Commenting on the change of dates, Allan J. Wilson, managing director of Suffolk Downs, said: "We are happy to give Rockingham Park the extra day, an to co-operate with them in every way possible. It is our policy to work in complete harmony with all the New England tracks." Last month Walter E. OHara assented readily to the request of James I. Bush, president of the New Hampshire Jockey Club, that Narragansett Park cede four days in the fall. Announcing Rockingham Parks dates today, Bush said: "I wish to express thanks on behalf of the New Hampshire Jockey Club to Walter E. OHara, who voluntarily relinquished four days of his proposed schedule, and to the officers and directors of the Eastern Racing Association, operating Suffolk Downs, who were considerate enough to give up Saturday, June 13, so we can operate that day without conflict with their track. Without the splendid co-operation of Mr. OHara and the Suffolk Downs management we would not have been able to avoid conflicting dates. We sincerely appreciate their generous acts."
