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; : i 1 ; EARL PORTER BY SLIM MARGIN Beats All Forlorn by a Head After Spirited Contest. C. Bierman Displays Good Horsemanship Astride Fairbanks Racer Upside Down Big Disappointment. SALEM, N. H., Oct. 16. The Boy Meets Girl Purse featured the sport at Rockingham Park this afternoon and Mrs. Sheldon Fairbanks Earl Porter, drove home a head in advance of Miss Mary Whites All Forlorn. Mrs. F. Langebartels Mixwcll was third, a nose in front of the heavily backed Upside Down at the finish. The latter, an even money choice, was the victim of a poor ride. The winner was ridden by Carroll Bierman, a lad who arrived here from the New York tracks and who was completing a "double" in the event. He bids fair to be a valuable addition to the jockey colony at Rockingham Park. It was All Forlorn and Earl Porter all the way. The former set the early pace in the six furlongs event but was never able to widen out on her rival, a neck separating them for the greater part of the distance. Bierman went to a hard drive on the winner in the final sixteenth. He had a narrow lead seventy yards out but All Forlorn hung to him in a determined manner and they flashed across the line heads apart and two and a half lengths before Mixwell. The latter was third in the early running and came again at the end to beat Upside Down for the show. The choice, usually a fast breaker, was off slowly, ran into trouble on the back stretch and was forced to take up. Knott then took him to the outside, lost ground and went to the inside on the" turn, where he was third. In the stretch he was hemmed in on the rail and lost the small share of the purse. The race was run in 1:12. SPRINGLIKE WEATHER. Springlike weather brought an excellent week-day crowd to the grounds. Helmuth Chall rode the first winner of his career as he piloted Mrs. L. H. Nimkoffs Twosome, at better than 40 to 1, home in the six furlongs opener, charging up on the outside to get the decision by a neck over Mrs. P. A. Shaws Gayctte. It was an extremely close finish, with J. J. Fitzgeralds Landscape a head back of the runner-up and a nose in front of the favored Royal Shoot. The latter was three lengths on top coming into the stretch and he appeared the winner, but quit as Porter went to the whip in the final seventy yards. Porter had taken her to the lead immediately, with Gayette and Love Potion in close attendance. Love Potion quit at the stretch,, but Gayette went on gamely. The latter flashed past the pacemaker in the final yards, but could not meet the late challenge of the winner. Dudie Dubois, at one time one of the best two-year-old riders in the West, drove the Lone Star Stables High Mongul to victory in the second. The victor, heavily backed by late commissions, came through on the rail to take the lead approaching the far turn and, ridden out smartly, lasted it out to score by half a length over Mrs. J. Dolans Claimant. The pair was three lengths in front of Mrs. L. H. Wards Chief Mourner, which took the third award well in front of Boocap. American Prince, the choice, turned in a disappointing race, pulling up last in the field of ten. TRANSIT LADY BY NECK. Mrs. H. Mcllvains Transit Lady passed the judges a neck in front of Miss Mary Whites Lottafun in the third, a six furlongs affair, and rounded out a "Daily Double" combination that paid 66. Philip Goulds Aureate was two and a half lengths back of the leaders and Sock Dologer fourth in the limit field. , Mrs. L. H. Nimkoff s Bonanza came through extremely well in the final seventy yards to gain the decision in the five and a half furlongs event that was fourth on the card. The winner, a 3 to 5 shot, gave his supporters several anxious moments, for he was back of the pace until the turn, where he moved up strongly and then was forced to take back. However, he was game enough to come on again and Jackson drove him up in time to score by a neck over the Lone Star Stables Prevention. Mrs. A. R Smiths Bacon, which appeared a winner at the head of the stretch, finished third, and Miss Trophy, the early pacemaker, fourth. Rich-strike and Epibeau were the only other starters. They finished as named. Presiding steward Tom Thorp and associate steward Charles B. Stickney will be at Narragansett Park n October 22, to receive license applications from horsemen, trainers and jockeys for the fall meeting.
