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ROCKINGHAM PROFITS NIL No Chance for Current Meeting to Realize Any More Than Expenses Weather Conditions Adverse. SALEM, N. H., Oct. 3 Officials at Rockingham, while holding little hope of realizing a profit on the meeting, believe that next Saturdays handle and that on Columbus Day will increase the present average of about 25,000 by at least 5,000 a day. If the meeting does 40,000 a day it will be little short of remarkable in the ,f ace of conditions. Rain, cold, a hurricane and floods have beset the session. Roads have been washed out and folks in this section have suffered a terrific loss in property damage, which naturally affects the betting. The feature of the coming week will be the mile and a sixteenth General Green Handicap, carrying ,000 added, which has drawn a nomination list of nineteen. Fourteen of the eligibles appear to hold an excellent chance of starting. When secretary John Turner closed his stake nominations on September 1 he had his races filled with horses that intended to start, not with complimentary entries. Large fields have gone to the post in most of the added money events. The General Green, for three-year-olds-and upward, will serve as a return engagement for many of the horses that started in j Saturdays White Mountain Handicap. Wise I Prince and Natty Boy are regarded as certain j starters and so is Dolly Val. j The Columbus Day holiday will in all j probability be the largest of the season, with a likelihood that the handle will soar to half a million. This is the only holiday on the I Rockingham Park 1938 roster. The afternoon will be featured by the Columbus Day Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, with an added value of ,500. The event is at a mile and an eighth and climaxes a series of stakes that Turner I gradually increased in distance. Fifteen were named for the event. j I , .
