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NAPPER TANDY VS. DOLLY VAL Star Three -Year-Olds Meet Today at Rockingham Park. Championship of New England Expected to Be Decided in ,500 Columbus Day Purse. SALEM, N. H., Oct. 11. The three-year-old championship of New England will be settled at Rockingham Park tomorrow, when Napper Tandy and Dolly Val clash in the ,500 Columbus Day Purse, feature event of a holiday card that is expected to attract a crowd of more than 25,000 to the old track on the New Hampshire border. There are others which have been named for the race. Charley Gentrys Beach Ensemble and Play Dis, Mrs. Pi A. Shaws Hol-luschickie and W. C. Johnsons Landlubber, but the battle is expected to be between Napper Tandy, owned by Phil Schwartz, the squire of Suffield, and Dolly Val, owned by Jim Emery of Chicago. Napper Tandy, three-year-old son of Koodoo and Maschera, is taking a long step up the class ladder, for Dolly Val won the 0,-000 added Frontier Handicap at Detroit and came east with the reputation of being one of the greatest three-year-olds of the year. She could not recover her mid-western form, however, until she arrived at Rockingham, and her racing here has been nothing short of brilliant. Last Saturday she lost by a short head to Wise Prince in the General Green Purse and would have conquered him except for bearing out after she had taken the lead mid-way in the stretch. The six furlongs were run in lill-Js, one of the fastest races of the entire year and an indication that Dolly Val is coming up to the Columbus Day Purse in the finest condition of her career. Napper Tandy has started twice and has won twice here. Last week he ran a mile in 1:39 to beat Galadore, Ghost Queen, Play Dis, Landlubber and Oddesa Frank with the greatest of ease. In winning his last race Napper Tandy disposed of every capable three-year-old in New England with the exception of Dolly Val, and they will be meeting for the first time tomorrow. The race should be a bril-iliant climax to the Rockingham season.
