Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-13


Because of its wonderfully mild and
eQuable climate. delightful both winter
and summer-without extremes of heat
or cold-and because of its many days
of fawless weather, st. Petersburg is
generally known as THE Sunshine city"
Practically every day of the year is
available for outdoor recreation, and the
facilities afforded for healthful open air
diversions are so numerous that St.
Petersburg has gained remarkable favor
with visitors, who are outdoor enthusi-
asts, pleasure or health seekers.
POPULATION SMELLS
TO 10000 IN MARCH.
Trees and grass are green all year,
brilliant flowers, abundant fruits bird
songs and sweet ocean breezes offer
pleasant contrasts. The year round pop
ulation of the city is more than 1900.
During the winter season the average
number Of tourists wintering In st.
Petersburg has been placed at 10000. II
is estimated by city officials that 10000
will be here by March 1.
Plans are already being laid here for
the reception OF the Indianapolis ball
club when the players arrive here The
Royal Scottish Highlander band, led
by Roy =. Smith of Oakland City, Ind,
and whose members are composed eXclu-
sively of Indiana musicians, will meet
train. Men prominent in the social and
business life of the west coast will form
q welcome committee to greet the team.
II will he headed by Mayor A. l.. Lang,
not missed a world series In fifteen years
Lang was instrumental in getting the
HoOsier club to come here.
Immediately on receipt of information
from the Indianapolis ball club that ST.
Petersburg has been chosen for its spring
training season, a corps Of laborers were
detailed TO the ball park site to get
II into the best Of condition before the
vanguard of the league leaders arrive
here. Lumber was ordered and delivered
for the erection of an eight foot fence
TO surround the lot while bleachers are
already handy for the accommodation of
several thousand fans.
HOOSIER TOURISTS
BOOST FOR TEAM.
There are already 1900 Indiana tour
lists in the city and they are enthusiastic
over the prospects of seeing some real
baseball this winter. The Indiana State
Tourist society will indorse the action
taken by the club and city In providing
baseball entertainment for the tourists
cation will be appointed to meet tho
team along with the west coast recep-
ton committee.
The Edgewater inn, where the team
members will stay during the training
season, is only three blocks east of the
ball park 1t Overlooks Tampa bay and
Is only a few hundred feet from the
bathing beach. There are three gof
links here which Will be thrown open to
members OF the club. There are numer-
Gus tennis courts, and for those who
like horseshoe pitching there are thirty
two courts with crack pitchers to pick
from as playing partners. The national
horseshoe pitching tournament for the
United States championship will be held
here the week before the arrival of the
club.
There are several big leaguers In the
city spending the winter here, including
Buck Herzog. Buck is a sporting editor
pro tenn on one of the local papers.
Every form of sport is followed the
year round in st. Petersburg. Not far
from the city hunting of all kinds Is
available and for those who do not care
large target shooting court, where
sportsmen the country over perform
every winter season. There are 600 va
rieties of fish to be caught in the waters
here from the minute sized sunfsh to
tarpOn, shark and sawf1sh. The Indians
can toss a line into Tampa bay just a
holler" away from Edgewater inn and
catch balloon" fish, groupers, Spanish
At low tide any number of clans can
be picked I'D to make enough clam
chowder to feed regiment.
WHERE EVERYBODY
GATHERS FOR CHAT.
In the main streets of the city there
are hundreds of green painted benches set
/ lengthwise from the curb, where tourists
/ flock at sunrise and sit well into the
evening. 1t is here where a lumber man
from Oregon can exchange views and
ideas with the college professor from
Massachusetts and where the Canadian
will discuss the possibilities of Georges
/ Carpenters chances of beating Jack
! Dempsey. 1t is where the east shakes
! hands with the west and the north min
! giles with the south.
There is every sort of entertainment
/ going on all the time during the sum
mer months. There are three large out
door dancing pavillions and the Gold
4 Dragon, a breath of New York's famous
! cabaret dance pavilions.
There have been only two rains hero
since fall, on Oct. % and Dec. 16. The
/ daily average temperature since Dec.
has been 70. Tampa is twenty eight
! miles across the bay by boat. The
Washington American league club will
/ train there. Jacksonville 275 miles to
/ the north will entertain the New York
[ Americans Miami will have the Cincin
natl Reds, so there will be plenty of