December 8, 1909 - The Ogdensburg Journal, NY - Stallings to get rid of Elberfeld
New York, Dec. 7.—Manager George T. Stallings, of the Yankees, will make a determined effort to get rid of Norman Elberfeld while all the magnates and managers of the American league teams are in this city during the rapidly approaching annual meeting. Stallings does not want the peppery kid any longer and has reached the conclusion that he can get along very well without him. The leader of the Broadway boys has plenty of infielders, and if he gets a chance for a good trade whereby he can really get something he's going to. jump at it.
Stallings has a great big place in his base ball foundry for Walter Johnson, the Idaho phenom who does such sterling things for the Washington club from the firing line, and there is no pitcher he would like better to get than Johnson. But there is a serious question as to whether the big chief will be able to produce the proper persuasive powers at the proper time to show Manager Jim McAleer why he should let Johnson go. There is one thing sure and certain —Stallings doesn't want Elberfeld any longer—and i t may be that he will sell him to Washington without getting any players in return. though this phase of the case is doubted by many on the inside.
Stallings has a great big place in his base ball foundry for Walter Johnson, the Idaho phenom who does such sterling things for the Washington club from the firing line, and there is no pitcher he would like better to get than Johnson. But there is a serious question as to whether the big chief will be able to produce the proper persuasive powers at the proper time to show Manager Jim McAleer why he should let Johnson go. There is one thing sure and certain —Stallings doesn't want Elberfeld any longer—and i t may be that he will sell him to Washington without getting any players in return. though this phase of the case is doubted by many on the inside.
