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WILL RACE INDEFINITELY. CRESCENT CITY JOCKEY CLUB DECIDES TO PROLONG ITS MEETING. Mutable Is Killed in a 7am at the Old Track Four Favorites Win at City Park Gossip. New Orleans, La., February 15. The annual meeting of tlie Crescent City Jockey Club was beld this afternoon and all ot the present officers of the club were re-elected. It was decided that racing at the old track be continued indefinitely. It is said that there is a possibility of its not ending before May 1. Much depends upon the decision of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, with .reference to the constitutionality of the racing law In that state. Small fields went to the post in a majority of the races at City Park this afternoon. The conditions of the track, which was lumpy and heavy, was responsible for a number of scratches, but the withdrawals did not detract much from the racing. Good contests were In the majority, two of the finishes being of the driving order with small margins separating the first two at the end. Favorites scored in four races, the winning choices being Little James, Modred, Oak Grove and Gentian. Little James beat a fair lot in the fourth race, winning In a canter after racing Braden into defeat iu the early stages of the race. Hugh McCarren has a useful horse In him. He has improved right along with racing and in his present condition it will take the best here to beat him, especially over a heavy track. Judge Murphy announced that final action in the RudoTpu vae "will beatwfSs-w-iiJudgetTj-e., yelyan returns to his duties. Mr. Trevelyan is still detained at his home, but expects to be about in a day or two. At Crescent Park a large crowd, turned out and witnessed a good days sport. In the feature race, the handicap at one mile, De Reszke, the heavily supported favorite, lowered klfc colors to M. D. Millers Cigarlightor. Iladtke had the mount ou the last named, while Jack Martin was on De Keszte. Piqued over the rough tactics which Martin employed while, riding Captain Bob when he defeated Footlights Favorite, on which Radtke had the mount yesterday, the latter was on his mettle and rode the best race he has shown at the meeting. He kept along with De Reszke until straightened for the final run and then made a challenge which landed Cigarlighter first at the end by a scant length. The finish between the two was most exciting. While the horses were rounding the far turn in the two-year-old race, several of them came to gether and caused a jam. Mutable, which was in the front rank at the time, was thrown and lauding ou her head, broke her neck. This is the second two-year-old filly that Robert Walden has lost at the meeting. Miss Custis was, killed iu a race u January 27. King Cole was excused from the fourth race on account of sickness, while St. Valentine was excused ou the request of his owner, who claimed that the horse would not run a good race over the heavy track. Jockey Radtke was taken slightly ill after the fifth race and Moreland took the mount on Sincerity Belle iu the sixth race. Radtke left for Hot Springs toulght.
