January 24, 1926 - The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) - Elberfeld has Basketball Team
ELBERFELD HAS BASKETBALL TEAM - These girls, all daughters of Kid Elberfeld, fiery baseball manager, and Mrs. Elberfeld have formed a basketball team and will tour the south. All are star athletes. Thev are, left to right, top, Ruth and Dorothy; sitting, Miriam, Nan and Edith.
Five daughters of Kid Elberfeld, formerly famous shortstop of the New York Americans and other major league teams, will start a tour of this section of the country about February 1 as the onlv girls' basketball team in the world from a single family. During his years of successful minor league managing, dating from the time he left the Washington Americans in 1912, Elberfeld not only has been training baseball players; also has been developing athletes inside his own family and five healthy and strong young women have resulted. The five girls range from 15 to 22 years in age. Dorothy is youngest. Nan the eldest. A single brother, Jack Elberfeld, completes this remarkable family, and Mr. and Mrs. Elberfeld, still hearty and strong, are able to compete with their children.
The story of athletic triumph for the Elberfeld girls began with the winning by Nan Elberfeld of the Red Cross life-saving medal in Arkansas several years ago, while Elberfeld was managing the Little Rock club. The record runs through a series of minor achievements until the swimming meet of the Southeastern A. A. U. at Birmingham nearly a year ago. At this meet Ruth won 10 firsts, 1 second and 1 third, including a first in fancy diving. Dorothy, at the same meet, placed first in the junior 50, third in the senior 100 and 200. Nan placed second in the senior 50 (the Elberfeld girls thus finishing first, second and third. The same triumphs were repeated with a few variations at a Pensacola meet some time later, although the girls raced there against girls who had spent their lives by the seashore and largely in the water.
In Mobile, where Elberfeld managed the baseball club last year, Miriam and Nan won the doubles tennis championship of the city and Nan won the single. Edith is a long-distance swimmer and Ruth is an aesthetic dancer of ability, her athletic training aiding her in perfecting herself in the art. Two summers ago, the Elberfeld sisters gave a vaudeville act in the New York Hippodrome, consisting of wrestling, dancing and swimming. In addition to their other athletic accomplishments, every one of the five girls is an expert horsewoman. All of the girls have played basketball wherever they have been in school and are looking forward to their cage career as the Elberfeld team with much pleasure.
Rumor has it that one of the five will break up the family circle to wed a star Southern association ball player, but this is indignantly denied by the five sisters. At 52, Kid Elberfeld, father of this remarkable family, is still able to hold his own with them in any athletic sport and to coach them in the art of keeping fit and building strength at which he has been a master for years
tiie singles. Edith is a long-distance vears much pleasure.
Five daughters of Kid Elberfeld, formerly famous shortstop of the New York Americans and other major league teams, will start a tour of this section of the country about February 1 as the onlv girls' basketball team in the world from a single family. During his years of successful minor league managing, dating from the time he left the Washington Americans in 1912, Elberfeld not only has been training baseball players; also has been developing athletes inside his own family and five healthy and strong young women have resulted. The five girls range from 15 to 22 years in age. Dorothy is youngest. Nan the eldest. A single brother, Jack Elberfeld, completes this remarkable family, and Mr. and Mrs. Elberfeld, still hearty and strong, are able to compete with their children.
The story of athletic triumph for the Elberfeld girls began with the winning by Nan Elberfeld of the Red Cross life-saving medal in Arkansas several years ago, while Elberfeld was managing the Little Rock club. The record runs through a series of minor achievements until the swimming meet of the Southeastern A. A. U. at Birmingham nearly a year ago. At this meet Ruth won 10 firsts, 1 second and 1 third, including a first in fancy diving. Dorothy, at the same meet, placed first in the junior 50, third in the senior 100 and 200. Nan placed second in the senior 50 (the Elberfeld girls thus finishing first, second and third. The same triumphs were repeated with a few variations at a Pensacola meet some time later, although the girls raced there against girls who had spent their lives by the seashore and largely in the water.
In Mobile, where Elberfeld managed the baseball club last year, Miriam and Nan won the doubles tennis championship of the city and Nan won the single. Edith is a long-distance swimmer and Ruth is an aesthetic dancer of ability, her athletic training aiding her in perfecting herself in the art. Two summers ago, the Elberfeld sisters gave a vaudeville act in the New York Hippodrome, consisting of wrestling, dancing and swimming. In addition to their other athletic accomplishments, every one of the five girls is an expert horsewoman. All of the girls have played basketball wherever they have been in school and are looking forward to their cage career as the Elberfeld team with much pleasure.
Rumor has it that one of the five will break up the family circle to wed a star Southern association ball player, but this is indignantly denied by the five sisters. At 52, Kid Elberfeld, father of this remarkable family, is still able to hold his own with them in any athletic sport and to coach them in the art of keeping fit and building strength at which he has been a master for years
tiie singles. Edith is a long-distance vears much pleasure.
ON THIS PAGE you will find photographs of five attractive young women, who compose a basketball team which soon will go on a tour of the south. And they all are daughters of Kid and Mrs. Elberfeld. That you will learn from the reading matter which accompanies the illustration. What we did not find out. about this remarkable family of girls in Chattanooga we found out from Charles Renthrop, the heavyweight wrestler, before we departed from the city Saturday. Dorothy, the young Elberfeld at the top left in the picture, became an athlete of importance only after she had struggled for years against a slight paralysis suffered in infancy, according to Renthrop, and the big, good-natured wrestler has been a friend of the Elberfeld family for years.
EDITH ELBERFELD. sitting at the right-hand corner, according to Renthrop, formerly was the largest of the five girls before she was stricken with fever in Mobile about a year ago. "They are a most remarkable family of girls," Renthrop told us. "I helped train them in gymnasium work in Little Rock while Elberfeld was managing the Southern association club there. Dorothy never would have overcome her paralysis if she had not taken to athletics and swimming.
EDITH ELBERFELD. sitting at the right-hand corner, according to Renthrop, formerly was the largest of the five girls before she was stricken with fever in Mobile about a year ago. "They are a most remarkable family of girls," Renthrop told us. "I helped train them in gymnasium work in Little Rock while Elberfeld was managing the Southern association club there. Dorothy never would have overcome her paralysis if she had not taken to athletics and swimming.
