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This Years Rockingham Park Meet Will Run for Nine Weeks SALEM, N. H May 12. Rockingham Park, New Englands oldest track, will inaugurate its nine-week summer meeting here on Monday, May 31, beginning its twenty-second year of thoroughbred racing by featuring the running of the ,500 Memorial Day Handicap. This will be the earliest start in the history of the old Rock, and it will mark the first time that no autumn meeting will have been held. In a desire to cooperate with the other major tracks in New England, vice-president and executive manager Lou Smith consented to run 54 consecutive days, from May 31 through July 31. Thus Rockingham Park will be in operation on Memorial Day and Independence Day. Every stall on the grounds already has been allotted by stall superintendent Dom-inick Lobraico, and the interest of the horsemen in the approaching meet is evidenced by the fact that more than 200 horses already are quartered here, an advance guard of the 1,100-odd who will fill the barn area. In addition, Judge John Pappas of Suffolk Downs has graciously consented to keep his stables open to accommodate an overflow of 300 more thoroughbreds, so racing secretary Owen E. Pons, Jr., should have no difficulty in providing interesting, well-filled programs.
