July 12, 1918 Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, Arkansas) - The Kid Learning the Y.M.C.A. Game
The Kid Learning the Y.M.C.A. Game
Elberfeld Is Taking Training Course for His New Work
Kid Elberfeld is learning how to be a Y.M.C.A. man. The Kid is in a training camp in Georgia with several othe baseball men who have been put out of jobs because of the war and who have found others because of the same reason. He is studying the inside of the Y.M.C.A. game as it is played in the army. When he learns his new lines he will be ready to take up athletic work in some army camp - perhaps Camp Pike.
Elberfeld, Charley Frank, Mayer, Carleton Molesworth and other former Southern League players and bosses have signed up with the Army Y. Officers of the organization anticipate that it will take about one month to teach these old vets the tricks of the new trade. Just what it is a Y.M.C.A. man can teach Norman A. Elberffeld about the grand old game of baseball is a mystery, but it is part of the routine and the Kid will have tos tand for it.
As far as can be learned Elberfeld has not been assigned to a camp. He left here witht he intention of accepting only in case he could come back here and do his work at Camp Pike. He wants to remain here with his family. It should be easy to arrange that detail because is at present at present no one in in charge of the athletics at the camp and there is need of a director.
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Elberfeld Is Taking Training Course for His New Work
Kid Elberfeld is learning how to be a Y.M.C.A. man. The Kid is in a training camp in Georgia with several othe baseball men who have been put out of jobs because of the war and who have found others because of the same reason. He is studying the inside of the Y.M.C.A. game as it is played in the army. When he learns his new lines he will be ready to take up athletic work in some army camp - perhaps Camp Pike.
Elberfeld, Charley Frank, Mayer, Carleton Molesworth and other former Southern League players and bosses have signed up with the Army Y. Officers of the organization anticipate that it will take about one month to teach these old vets the tricks of the new trade. Just what it is a Y.M.C.A. man can teach Norman A. Elberffeld about the grand old game of baseball is a mystery, but it is part of the routine and the Kid will have tos tand for it.
As far as can be learned Elberfeld has not been assigned to a camp. He left here witht he intention of accepting only in case he could come back here and do his work at Camp Pike. He wants to remain here with his family. It should be easy to arrange that detail because is at present at present no one in in charge of the athletics at the camp and there is need of a director.
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