The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-04-25
A LARGE CROWD At sport.
The Cotton Belt Excursion a
Grand Success Spring
Like Day
OVER $50 PEOPLE BOARD
The Train Here for the Historic City
on Red River.

The Cotton Belt Division Passen'
ger Agent, Fred H. Jones, conceiv-
ed the idea of putting on a special
excursion train to Shreveport on
the opening of the baseball season,
Yesterday from this point aud how
well he succeeded will only be nee
essary to state that it took some
eight coaches to accommodate the
crowd that went to Shreveport.
Fully three hundred and fifty
people secured transportation from
this point and at every station on
the road dozens of people crowded
in the coaches-Lewisyille alone,
furnished seventy-fve of these
sight seekers.
Special Agent John Croker and
Fred n. Jones we're on the train to
see that everything past OIL right,
and they succeeded in getting the
train to leave here about on time
and at Shreveport a few minutes
late, returning, leaving Shreveport
on the dot and getting back here
at 11:15.
When the train landed at Shreve-
port the crowd broke for town and
soon filled the restaurants and no.
tells for dinner.
After dinner the ball ground was
repaired to, the electric cars fur
nishing the means for transporta
tion. When the game opened it
was estimated that fifteen hundred
hundred people we're in attendance,
and we do not believe the estimate
far from being right.
The crowd was an orderly one,
with the exception of knots OF boys
who got in front of the grand stand
and began to root for tine home
team, and be it said to their credit,
they ran the Texarkana rooters in
great shape, taking all bets offered
by Texarkana against the Colgate
Colts, older heads near by giving
them the bills to place the bets.
They got so noisy and demonstra-
tive at one time that a policeman
had to speak to them and they
quieted down. This, however, goes
with a base ball game and we do
not write it down as a complaint
but as a true report of the game.
Shreveport went to the bat and
scored the first run made in its first
half, giving the Texarkana club
goose egg and tried to keep it up,
but the Texarkana club let Shreye-
port up to the seventh inning score
u runs, while they had not marked
up a single score, we thought per
haps that we might be the "TeXar-
kama Jonah" and we pulled our
freight for the city, and afterwards
learned that Texarkana got five
runs and as Shreveport did not
score again the game ended Il to .
in favor of Shreveport,
There is no necessity to write our
impression OF the city of Sport, for
to tell the truth the town has never
made an impression upon us, where
there is no impression there should
be no expression we are told.
While in the lazy city and stroll
ing beneath the beautiful archways
of the midway of the union depot,
we met Major Stout, the city tick
ct agent, and was shown through
the entire building, which Is an
architectural beauty and construct
ed for convenience and comfort
The MAJOR has our best thanks for
courtesies extended
We left our base ball nine down
there who will play today and to-
morrow, returning here in time to
play Hot Springs a series of three
games, afterwhich the Little Rock
team will come here and play three
games and then our club will start
ont 10 kn some visitinr themselves