The Washington herald., 1913-12-19
PICKS BROWNIES
TO land FLAG
St Petersburg Newspapers
Predicting Pennant for St.
Louis Next Season.
AN IDEAL TRAINING CAMP
Amusement Company Of Florida City
Agrees to Care for Squad of
Forty-two Players.
AN IDEAL TRAINING CAMP

Mr.. n A. Fleming, Washington news
paper man. who is spending a short va
cation in Florida writes of the delight
full climate in Tampa and surrounding
territory. In a letter to the sporting edI
tor Of The Washington Herald Mr.. Flem
ing says: THE st. Louis Browns are Il
train In st. Petersburg next spring anC
local newspapers are predicting a pen.
nant-winning crew for the lowly Browns
OF St Petersburg, Mr. Fleming saws!
The climate here is wonderfully dry and
IDEAL An amusement company has been
organized, and all the local business men
are subscribing to stock. fine bit OF
property has been given up for six years,
and will be converted into a baseball
park, where the Browns will train.
This amusement company agrees TO care
for a squad OF forty-two ball PLAYERS,
and admission to practice and the various
games Will be charged. The grounds are
about one mile from the center Of the
city. Boats can bring crowds from Tam
pa in less than two hours time. i"
According TO Fleming, the Browns
have picked the garden spot of the South
for spring training.
A recent copy OF st. Petersburg paper
has the following to say:
81 eleESOurB Is an Ideal locality
as place OF winter training is attested
by the constant improvement In form
shown by her winter visitors who have
animated with the Sunshine Pleasure Club
ana II Is at once apparent that big league
pail players will find II equally desirable
Tor their annual workout preliminary IN
the long and strenuous grind Of the
championship season.
IL mas been affirmed by some local snort
followers that this city might inst az
readily have secured the worlds chan,-
plon Athletic club as the st Louis
BROWNS who have risen occasionally out
ol tne cellar only to relapse once more
N their accustomed lowIy place. The
DIo"hs nave never made even a bid for
the pennant save once. several wear.
ago. when they numbered in their line~uD
such hurlers as Rube waddeIl. Barney
feity' Jack Powell and such diamond
stars as Bobbie Wallace at shortston.
george stone in the outfeId, Dode Criss
as utility hitter and Tub" spencsr hs1
hind the plate. Oe
All thos stars have Eon. rI;r,r,.-L,,,
however, and the constantly shiTti,r az
SreGation they have had since thar tInna
mas never even played consistently IN
streaks. How much greater the distinc-
tion' then. II this city succeeds in mould |
no tiiiS COMPANY OF seeming miSfits into |
aggressive bidders for the faR. Anv
,own, even Jacksonville, can take care
'f champions. but IT Is the excep,ionaI
place In climate and environment that
;an shape ordinary players into pennant |
Meanwhile the st Petersburg lovers OF
1faseoall are hoping that this city will |
De instrumental in accomplishing the
seeming impossible-that is making pen-
lant contenders of the st. Louis AmerI-
ans. When that comes to pass some
,uns that are now going the rounds In
he big cities will be rendered baseless-
uch, for example, as this one from
franklin P. Adams, in the New York
dail. IAN honor to the st. Louis Browns.
he sturdy foundation of the American
1eague," as well as the following In the
North American, "fmpos-
ible' is word found only in the die
ionary of FOOLS" is a phrase credited to
Napoleon but, OF course, there were no
L. Louis Browns in the Little Corporars
ay."