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PUMPGUN BY A SAFE MARGIN Finds Little Trouble Accounting for Rockinghams Main Race Tuesday. Battle for Second Placp Between Scotch High and Historic Era Close and Exciting. SALEM, N. H., Oct. 11. H. E. Engers Pumpgun, the favorite, charged up fast on the outside to win the mile event for higher priced claimers. that featured the next to last day at Rockingham Park. At the end of the journey jockey Eddie Smith had the victor a length and a half clear of Bill Gallaghers Scotch High. The battle for second place was a warm one, with Scotch High taking that award by a nose over C. H. Trotters Historic Era. Grand Light, which made the pace to the stretch, tired in the final stages and wound up fourth in the field of half a dozen. The most perfect weather of the meeting prevailed for todays sport. It was sunny and warm, more like spring than autumn, and a large crowd was out to see the program. BREAKS SLOWLY. Pumpgun broke slowly and trailed the field until they were midway of the back stretch. There he and Cee Joe moved together on the leading Grand Light, but Cee Joe was caught in a blind switch at the far turn, where Pumpgun moved to the leaders and never was able to find running room after that. Pumpgun came into the stretch a head clear of Scotch High, with Grand Light dropping back and Historic Era moving up very fast. Pumpgun was not able to draw away until the final sixteenth. Historic Era just failed to get up for the place, Scotch High holding on tenaciously when it appeared he would be headed. CONSECUTIVE DOUBLE. Phil Biebers Squawker carried Bicrman to a consecutive double as she drove home a nose in advance of Hymie Biebers Velvet Mask in the six-furlong second event. W. W. Adams Alergy was third, a half length farther back. Fair Time finished fourth. Mrs. F. A. Clarks Elliptical, ridden by W. Vassar, got home by a length in the three-quarters third event, finishing out in front of Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs fast charging Ellen H. Mrs. F. C. Dunns Friendly Paul, a warm favorite, could do no better than third, a length and a half off the runner-up. Ladfield scored for the favorite players when he drove home a head in front of Notice Me in the fourth. Harvey G. O. was two and a half lengths off the runner-up. Blue Grotto, the early pacemaker, was fourth. Ladfield finished put in 1:13.
