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DEAD-HEATERS MEET AGAIN Wise Prince and Natty Boy in the White Mountain Handicap at Rockingham Park Today. SALEM, N. If., Sept. 30. Ten crack milers have been named overnight for the ,500 added White Mountain Handicap, which features the week-end program at Rockingham Park, with Felix Spatolas Wise Prince the high weight, under 120 pounds, and an almost certain post time choice. The race will hold particular interest since it marks a return engagement between Wise Prince and Kail and Warrenders Natty Boy, which ran a dead heat at six furlongs a week back. On that occasion Wise Prince carried two pounds more than Natty Boy and there will be the same weight difference tomorrow afternoon. Each horse is dropping a pound off his last effort, with Natty Boy taking up 118 in the White Mountain. It is generally believed, however, that Wise Prince will be more capable of negotiating a mile than Natty Boy, whose main forte is sprinting. The two top weights by no means should have the argument to themselves, however. Dolly Val turned the fastest mile of the session here when she sped over the distance in 1:39 not long ago. She is in the week-end battle under 113 pounds. After winning the Frontier Handicap in Detroit, the Robert I Emery filly showed little in New England j until she came to Rockingham, where the track appears to be right to her liking. Eastport, in tomorrow under 110, ran Dolly Val to a nose in a mile and a sixteenth contest last Saturday and the return match between the pair will attract almost as much attention as that between Wise Prince and Natty Boy. These four horses are the main members of the White Mountain pack, but there is plenty of contention among the others named. Trouper has run some excellent races and likes the mile distance. Really cold fall weather had set in today and drizzling rains fell during the morning. It is difficult to predict what sort of track condition will preval for tomorrows sport. Even if the track is fast it will remain slightly off, for the hurricane last week did great damage to the top soil and left several rough spots that cannot be eliminated except by weeks of work.
