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Title: Combats and conquests of immortal heroes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Barnes, Charles Merritt
Subjects: San Antonio (Tex.) -- History Texas -- History
Publisher: San Antonio, Tex. : Guessaz & Ferlet company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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quently the fowl was injured or killedconsequent to the contest. Sometimes the prize, instead of a rooster, was a water-melon, the proceedure otherwise being the same and usuallywith similar results and casualties. Among other sports of olden days w^ere tournaments andjousts wherein skill with lance and spear were displayed. Whiletown ball that later gave way to baseball was another andpolo were in vogue here long before they became the fad ofthe wealthy North, the tough wiry and cheap mustang poniesfurnishing admirable and game mounts for the contestantswho with more zeal than civility played the game that nowis commonly called croquet on horseback. While nearly all of the old time sports have been super-ceeded by more modern ones, those that have been substitutedhave charms as great as those possessed by their predecessors. One of the great institutions peculiar to San Antonioand famous the world over is her Spring Carnival, its principal 122 Combats and Conquests of Immortal Heroes
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FIVE nOl.LAK EILL OF THE TEXAS REPUBLIC Combats and Conquests of I.vlmortal Heroes 12.^ and literally crowning and concluding event being her fasci-nating fete called, Ihe Battle of Flowers. It is of com-paratively modern origin. The year of its conception was1891, the suggestion being made then by W. J. Ballard whenthe matter of program for entertainment of the first presidentof the United States to visit here during his incumbency wasdiscussed. The President was Benjamin Harrison, who wasto reach San Antonio on the dayof the anniversary of the battleof San Jacinto. Ihe suggestion found favor with the com-munity. J. S. Alexander was then president of the BusinessMens Club under whose aupices it was to be held, but rainalmost in deluge form occurred on the day of the presidentialvisit, so the fete was postponed until the following Saturday. Possibly no more fitting commemoration of an anniver-sary can be found any^^here than that of the celebration atSan Antonio annually of the San Ja

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