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SALEM CLOSING WRpNESDAYj Biggest Crowd of Season Expected for Rockingham . New England Owners, Trainers and Jockeys Played Prominent Part in the Current Session. SALEM, N. H.,Oct. 10 The twenty-seventh fall meeting of the New Hampshire Jockey Club will come to a conclusion next Wednesday, when the greatest crowd of the entire year is expected at Rockingham Park for the running of the Columbus Day Handicap. The meeting has been a distinct success despite the weather. More than 36 per cent of the favorites had won going into the last three days of the meeting, to keep the Rockingham reputation for formful racing untarnished, and the competition up and down the line has been keen. One of the features of the meeting has been the manner in which New England owners, trainers and jockeys have come to the front. Napper Tandy, owned and trained by Phil Schwartz, Suffield sportsman, is considered the outstanding three-year-old now running in New England, by virtue of his two recent victories, one at six furlongs, and the other at a mile. In those races, he conquered such outstanding stake horses as Be Blue, Landlubber, Play Dis and Ghost Queen, and it is highly probable that on the classy card which racing secretary Charles J. McLennan is planning for the holiday, Napper Tandy will once again be seen under the Bilks of the Squire of Suffield. FOUR STRAIGHT. John R. Macombers Griewrack won four consecutive races here in four starts, which is a respectable percentage in any league, and Natty Boy, owned by the young Rhode Island couple of Charlie Hall and Lydia War-render, and trained by Bostons Johnny Shu-grue, has maintained his reputation as one of the finest stake horses in the East. Harry Krovitz, of Beachmont, leads the riders remaining at Rockingham, and Krovitz, Maloney, Robart, Kenney and Coule, five Nov England-born jockeys, have won , more than forty-five races among them. For the first time, New England has taken Its place among the leaders of the turf, and Thomas Hall McKoy and his associates in the New Hampshire Jockey Club have given them every opportunity to develop. And to top it off, the hard-hit state of New Hampshire will receive some 80,000 in taxes just when it will come in most handy. So McKoy, Lou Smith, et al., consider the year a distinct success.
