December 2, 1902 - The Pittsburgh Press - Earle the Discoverer of Prof. Sam Leever and Elberfeld
EARLE THE DISCOVERER OF PROF. SAM LEEVER (ANE ELBERFELD)
Cincinnati. December 2.—While Billy Earle does not claim to be a Christopher Columbus of Balldom he thinks a credit mark is due him for starting Sam Leever along the road to baseball fame. "I ran up from Clarksville. Tenn." said the Globe Trotter, "to catch a game for New Richmond, in a little Clermont county town. We played on a diamond laid out in a cornfield, and I caught Leever for the first time. He was then a country schoolteacher. He looked so good to me I coaxed him to go to Clarksville with me. and I paid his fare. I took Norman Elberfeld at the same time. and Elberfeld went with me to Texas next season, but Leever balked on that.'
Cincinnati. December 2.—While Billy Earle does not claim to be a Christopher Columbus of Balldom he thinks a credit mark is due him for starting Sam Leever along the road to baseball fame. "I ran up from Clarksville. Tenn." said the Globe Trotter, "to catch a game for New Richmond, in a little Clermont county town. We played on a diamond laid out in a cornfield, and I caught Leever for the first time. He was then a country schoolteacher. He looked so good to me I coaxed him to go to Clarksville with me. and I paid his fare. I took Norman Elberfeld at the same time. and Elberfeld went with me to Texas next season, but Leever balked on that.'
