Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-09-07
MONSTER MEETING
OF BALL MACNATES
San Antonio Express Says 1t
Will Be Most Largely At
tended in History.
ISLANDERS TO BE THERE
A. H. DanfOrth Has Arranged a Pro-
gram Filled With Features,
Assuring Good Time.

The San Antonio Express has the
following to say in regard to the Ma
tional association convention of base
ball magnates which is to be held in
San Antonio and attended by NJ. H.
Sexton, and others of Rock Island:
Never in the history of the National
association has there been a con?cn-
ton that will compare with the one to
be held in San Antonio in November.
Not only does this monster gathering
of the country's baseball magnateS and
players bid fair to be the most largely
attended in history, but the plan of en-
tertainment has been made on scale
never before attempted. And the big
feature will be the trip to Ingleside,
planned and in the process of organI5a-
ton by 4. II. DanfOrth of this city.
Meeting with unanimous approval at
it's first announcement with a few de-
tails thought up on the spur of the
moment, the plan has broadened until
the program as now mapped out as
sures one of the greatest stunts"
ever identified with the great national
sport Mr. Danforth, however, is not
even yet satisfied His active think
tank is daily and nightly developing
other schemes that will keep the mag
mates busy in their trip of Chree days
TO the gulf coast paradise.
There will be other great features
to the observation-disclosures that will
cvershadow even the important bust
neS- 90 be t sanSacte'. uy the monster
baseball congress. But the Ingleside
trip now looms as the biggest event of
all. The plans as yet are all tentative,
but they are being worked out with
early diligence as matters of this varl-
ETY. require time to be successful.
These preparations will continue to
the very date of the jaunt, which Will
take the form of a monster outing with
all the frills of a three-ring circus and
every other similar variety of thriller.
THE PROGRAM.
The program as now outlined calls
for the special train TO leave San An
tonic Monday night, Nov. 21, this be
ing the last day of the convention.
Tuesday morning breakfast will be
eaten at Gregory on tie big r..co
owned by Charles P. Taft, himself a
big figure in baseballdom and a major
league club owner. The crowd will
then be conveyed in automobiles TO
the Taft winter home at LaQuinta,
thence by boat the party will go to In
gleside-the scene of the really big
stunt
The first event on the program at
Ingleside viii be a jackrabbit chase,
followed by coyote hunt. The hunt
will start far down the peninsula and
come toward the hotel. where the spec
tators will be located. Burro races
will follow, in which the baseball men
will be the riders. These will be run
in preliminaries and finals, and two
handsome cups costing 800 have been
put up by Mr.. Danforth for the win
ners. This event will be terminated
about noon.
ARRANGE DUCK ROAST.
Then will come the big duck roast, !
in which each guest will have served
to him a whole redhead duck, fish of !
many kinds and oysters. To top it all, /
three 50-gaIlon casks of wine from the |
IngIeside vineyards will be on hand (!
with their tops knocked in and cups
handy. These Will not be left while !
they are at all moist. Arrangements
have been made for tent with ca
pacity Of 1000 should bad weather |
overtake the feast.
At 2 O'Clock in the afternoon the en-