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MARMARA EMERGES VICTOR Thrilling: Contest Throughout, With Lead Changing Several Times. Marks Racer Comes Around Horses to Take Lead in Final Seventy Yards Sand Baby Earns lurse. SALEM, N. H., Oct. 6. Although the Concord Claiming Purse, five and a half furlongs feature of todays sport at Rockingham was far from being the best race of the New England season, it was one of the most thrilling. The sprint was won in handy fashion by Leo J. Marks Marmara, but, from the moment starter Bob Frend sent them away until Marmara charged to the lead at the seventy-yard marker, it was anybodys contest, with the lead changing between four horses during the short journey. Marmara had to come around horses and lose much ground and was much the best, even though he was only half a length clear of -Mrs. L. H. Nimkoffs Bonanza as they passed the judges. The latter finished out two lengths in front of Mrs. R. Fairbanks Hastinola, which had a neck to spare over All Forlorn. Satrapal and First Class were the only other starters. They finished as named. All Forlorn, Hastinola and Bonanza broke almost together, with First Class right back of them and they raced down the first sixteenth so closely locked that there was no choosing between them. The four were still heads, nose3 and necks apart as they drove to the far turn, with first All Forlorn, then Hastinola, then All Forlorn again taking a small lead. As they went around the turn Bonanza drove to the front and as they came into the stretch- Ray Wholey began his charge with the winner, which was. still well back and far on the outside. Bonanza held to his narrow advantage in determined fashion, with Hastinola after him. All Forlorn still in the hunt, and Marmara sweeping up fast as they flew from the eighth pole to the sixteenth pole. At that ground Marmara went to second place and kept on under a drive, diminishing the distance that separated him from the leader. At the seventy-yard pole, Marmara came over slightly on the tiring Bonanza, began to draw out and finished fast to take the decision. Hastinola and AH Forlorn quit in the final sixteenth, and Bonanza had no opposition for the place. The day was cool and breezy, but the sun wa3 out and a good sized week-day crowd witnessed the eight races. Hastinip was reported to have bled in the running of the first race at Rockingham Park, Monday, which accounted for his poor performance.
