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SOUTHERN CROSS WINS IN A CANTER. New Orleans, La., February 23. The Crescent Park card offered little today, the intended feature race, a handicap at five furlongs having dwindled down to practically a two-horse race. All the "wise money" showed on Southern Cross and he won In a canter from Van Ness, which had some trouble in beating the SO to 1 chance T. B. Zero for second place. It was a bad race for Van Ness. C. R. Ellisons Lancastrian was in a soft spot in the third race and won the easiest kind of a race. Fenian, the horse on which the big killing was made last week, beat Gallant a length for second place. Eddie Tribe, who is helping A. B. Dade do the starting at the Fair Grounds, today received a letter from the Overland Park Racing Association asking him to officiate as starter at the Denver summer meeting; Tribe did the starting there last year. He will accept. L. A. Cella Is in deseperate straits for a rider at Hot Springs and has been wiring to his brother Charles here to secure him one. He wanted either Robbins or Jack Martin, neither of whom is available, and Charles is trying to get him to buy the contract on Hayes, who is riding for "Texas" Smith. Hayes is a promising youngster, about the most likely at the track, but whether a deal will be made or not is still undecided.
