December 12, 1923 - The New York Times - Kid Elberfeld Offers to Bet That Giants Will Get Hornsby
Kid Elberfeld Offers to Bet That Giants Will Get Hornsby
Special to The New York Times.
CHICAGO, Dec. 11. - There was much wegging of tongues here today when Kid Elberfeld, the Little Rock manager. went around the lobby of the Congress Hotel offering to bet large sums that the Rogers Hornsby deal was all settled between the St. Louis Cards and the New York Giants.Elberfeld asserted that Travis Jackson, one of the three players that John McGraw said he would not trade, was included in the deal. Elberfeld was the man who discovered Jackson in the Little Rock club.
Special to The New York Times.
CHICAGO, Dec. 11. - There was much wegging of tongues here today when Kid Elberfeld, the Little Rock manager. went around the lobby of the Congress Hotel offering to bet large sums that the Rogers Hornsby deal was all settled between the St. Louis Cards and the New York Giants.Elberfeld asserted that Travis Jackson, one of the three players that John McGraw said he would not trade, was included in the deal. Elberfeld was the man who discovered Jackson in the Little Rock club.
