1917 Tea Party and Silent Treatment
April 25, 1917 - Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, Arkansas) - Predicts Elberfeld will be fined
April 25, 1917 - The Chattanooga News (Chattanooga, Tennessee) - Treatment by Umpires
April 26, 1917 - Chattanooga Daily Times (Chattanooga, Tennessee) - "LOOKOUTS WILL PLAY PINK-TEA BALL DURING REST OF SEASON"
April 27, 1917 - Chattanooga Daily Times (Chattanooga, Tennessee) - Elberfeld Suspended and Fined
April 29, 1917 - Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, Arkansas) - Elberfeld the Silent
May 1, 1917 - Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, Arkansas) - President's Reaction to Tea Party
May 1, 1917 - Press and Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, New York) - Elberfeld Is Peeved - Kid Elberfeld, who manages the Chattanooga club of the Southern League, is so peeved over restrictions enforced by the league president against riding umpires that he is threatening to order his players to wear pink sleeve holders on their uniforms.
May 1, 1917 - The Chattanooga News (Chattanooga, Tennessee) - Military Training for Team
May 1, 1917 - Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, Arkansas) - Elberfeld for President of League - Barney Sheridan of the Mobile Register nominates Norman Elberfeld for the presidency of the Southern League. He says that if the 'Kid" get away with his "pink tea" idea he is entitled to run the league.
May 1, 1917 - Chattanooga Daily Times (Chattanooga, Tennessee) - Silence is Broken - Fred Graff is manager of the Lookouts in the absence of Elberfeld. Tim Bowden is still field captain. Fred announced yesterday afternoon before the game that the pink tea stuff was off - that players could talk to umpires all the wanted to so long as they did not kick themselves out of the game, but no arguments followed.
July 2, 1917 - The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) - Bill Ellis dropped a one run engagement to the Lookouts when last the "pink tea" clan displayed their wares in these parts.
January 21, 1944 -The Birmingham News (Birmingham, Alabama) - Tea Party Story
