Charged With Throwing Games
Elberfeld Accused by Angus and Barrow of Letting St. Louis Win
Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat
DETROIT, MICH, June 2-- It was a. day of suspensions In baseball in Detroit today. No less than four players, one of them a member of the local team, and the other three players on the St. Louis club. were victims of the ax.
Shortstop Norman Elberfeld of the Detroit club received early this afternoon the notice of his indefinite suspension and a $200 fine for alleged laxity in training habits and the deliberate throwing, as the club affirms, of three games of the disastrous St. Louis series just ended. The player denies the charges. Hs also denies the charge that Is believed to be at the bottom of the whole thing--the statement by the club management that he has been dickering with the club. and has. been playing for his release.
The Detroit club officials claim to have accurate knowledge of conferences between Elberfeld and Padden. Burkett and Heidrick of the Browns relative to his attempt to get away from Detroit. They also claim that he appeared in practice with the St. Louis club during the preliminaries to the , Decoration day games in St Louis and this the players do not deny.. President Angus of the Detroit club tonight stated that Elberfeld was on the market to any club but St. Louis. Elberfeld himself he is through with Detroit as long as Ed Barrow is manager. He is negotiating with the California league.
Just before the game today Heidrick and Powell of the St. Louis club received notice from President Ban Johnson of the American League of their suspension for three days on account of the trouble of the day before, in which they addressed remarks to Carruthers to which that umpire took exceptions. Manager McAleer is also included in the the declaration of the league president,, being ruled off the league diamonds for five days.
Elberfeld Accused by Angus and Barrow of Letting St. Louis Win
Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat
DETROIT, MICH, June 2-- It was a. day of suspensions In baseball in Detroit today. No less than four players, one of them a member of the local team, and the other three players on the St. Louis club. were victims of the ax.
Shortstop Norman Elberfeld of the Detroit club received early this afternoon the notice of his indefinite suspension and a $200 fine for alleged laxity in training habits and the deliberate throwing, as the club affirms, of three games of the disastrous St. Louis series just ended. The player denies the charges. Hs also denies the charge that Is believed to be at the bottom of the whole thing--the statement by the club management that he has been dickering with the club. and has. been playing for his release.
The Detroit club officials claim to have accurate knowledge of conferences between Elberfeld and Padden. Burkett and Heidrick of the Browns relative to his attempt to get away from Detroit. They also claim that he appeared in practice with the St. Louis club during the preliminaries to the , Decoration day games in St Louis and this the players do not deny.. President Angus of the Detroit club tonight stated that Elberfeld was on the market to any club but St. Louis. Elberfeld himself he is through with Detroit as long as Ed Barrow is manager. He is negotiating with the California league.
Just before the game today Heidrick and Powell of the St. Louis club received notice from President Ban Johnson of the American League of their suspension for three days on account of the trouble of the day before, in which they addressed remarks to Carruthers to which that umpire took exceptions. Manager McAleer is also included in the the declaration of the league president,, being ruled off the league diamonds for five days.
