The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-18

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enthusiasts will scurry in and out
80 for perhaps the better part Of
three or four weeks.
For all around Tampa in towns
which are only a matter Of an hour
or two hurs away-if the train is
on ti1ne-which no self-respecting
Southern train ever hopes to be.
or will voluntarily submit to be,
there viii be major teams training
Tor the hanpionships OF 1923.
There will be the st. Louis Ma
4ionaIs at Bradentown. That is
south Of Tampa. There is no seem
ms reason why st. Louis chose
town, unless that 1t is the name
90 much like that Of Sam Breadon,
the president Of the st. Louis club.
DOWN IN THE HEAT.
Perhaps. too, the Cardinals were
hetuated by the fact that Braden.
town is nearer the Latitude to which
they have trained IN Texas. The
Cardinals had q habit OF hunting
10 some Texas town on the Gulf
&C Mexico in which to train where
the heat was q little above boiling
point about noon, because OF which
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aaanitarian and send q tidal wave
into the town after a day or two
and try to cool it off. Some times
the wave would wash part Of the
town out to sea, and that got the
bRN players 50 uneasy that many
o& them insisted upon training In
their bathing suits, as they didn't
want to shrink their spick span new
uniforms by being carried four or
i've miles out in the Gulf to be
compelled to swim back to shore.
There was always chance that
they wouldn't find the shore where
they left It, and q man hates to
wander around the edge OF the
Gulf OF Mexico wearing a baseball
uniform and looking for a shore.
IL is more in consonance with the
fitness of things to wear bathing
suit
The st. Louis team went little
urfher South than any other team
because before the year is over the
Cardinals have to endure more heat
than their other National League
8agals ana they might as well get
accustomed to the rotisserie one
time as another.
The Boston Nationals viii be right
across the bay from Tampa at q
fine town called st. Petersburg,
where they can tell the gosh awful
.sst lies about the size of the fish
that they catch both up and down
the coast, and throw more horse
shoes than any place in the world.
They have thrown so many horse
shoes there in the last two years
that the shippers who come up the
wegf coast are hypermagnetized. or
n0meting like that. The compass
needle, instead of going on about
les business, as 1t should, tries to
make q ringer around the pole In
the center.
SOMEWHAT MISTAKEN.
Boston trained at st. Petersburg
last spring. and when the team left
the town the folks said Boston would
WIN the pennant. You know where
they finished. They are going back
mpon the invitation Of the st. Peters
burg people, hoping to hear the
same glad news again. because 1t
may be that it will be the last
klad news they will hear until some
One gives them a present OF their
income tax In zoos.
Clearwater, where the Brookfyns
train, Is just a little further away
from Tampa than st. Petersburg.
and you go to IL by train instead
Of by boat. Once the Giants went
TO it from Tampa by automobile
and caught q train to Gainesville.
When the Giants arrived in Clear
water IL was past bed time, but
most Of the town folks had stayed
mp over time to escort the ball
players to the wharf to show them
q compound tarpon which had been
caught on a needle and thread. They
argued that Clearwater was the
place to train because 1t developed
D mans muscles to pun In such
1,O80-pound monsters Of the deep.
But east Of Tampa about an hour
there IL Lakeland, where Cleveland
will train. Lakeland IL, as II name
implies, a body Of water entirely
surrounded by beet groves and
orange bushes. It is a new place
to train, which is literally true. as
it never has trained itself before
and the neighborhood folks are pre-.
pairing to give all the young people
OF the region chance to see ball
players reallv work. This will be
a sight in Florida which none win
ever forget who have the oppor
tunfty to be present. and the
memory may last to the fortieth
The Cincinnatis win train, at Or
Iando, which may be a day or halt
q day east by north of Tampa. II
viii deDend upon how much No. 6St
can carry in her boiler and the
available supply OF coal. Orlando
will welcome the Reds fubiiantIv
hut Garry Hermann will not at
tend which is the nature Of &
grtevons end to a joyo"slv antici
pated holiday. They had INTENDED
90 blend the perfume OF Garrv't
best imported cervelat with oranE'
blossoms and sn-ing II on the mar
ket as a new Oriental perfume. Th'
combination. II has been suggested
would he recherche and inEenue
but IL Garry doesn't 20 the exDeri
ment VIII have 70 be abandoned TO
the time at least
NOW A PLACE ny PROMINENCE
h The Philadelphia Nationals a.
q semble at Leesburg. which 10 ais
tributary to Tampa, and got o.
the map last year because Phila
delphia put In q full spring seaso,
In the place to the Joy Of BIZ
Ghettsiine. who is q great breede
@e fine poultry. While there he hal
O royal chance to inspect frie
Degkings, fricassed Plymouth Rocks
@tewed Brahmaa, mashed 6flye