October 1, 1905 - The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, NY - Elbefeld and Fultz Collision
FULTZ AND ELBERFLED COLIIDE ON BALL FIELD
Serious Accident Proves Climax for Long Season of Hard Luck or Yankees.
BOTH TAKEN TO HOSPITAL.
Fears That Center Fielder Has Been Fatally Injured Prove Unfounded. They Will Recover.
During the American League baseball season, which is almost completed, Manager Clark Griffith has had many of his men disabled from several causes, but yesterday he lost the services of Norman Elberfeld and David Fultz for the remainder of the season.
These two players were in their respective positions of shortstop and centerfleld in the first game of a double-header with Cleveland. In the fourth inning Bradley sent a fly to left center, and Elberfeld, running backward, tried to get the ball. In the meantime Fultz was on a dead run in from his position, and each was so intent on his work that neither saw the other until their heads crashed together. Both fell prone to the ground and lay as if dead.
The game was stopped immediately and the players of both teams ran to where the injured men were lying. Several policemen ran to render assistance and a hurry call was turned in for an ambulance. Three physicians jumped down from the grand stand and gave what aid they could to the prostrate men. Two of the big Cleveland players grabbed a barrel of ice water and carried it across the diamond. Then they got a couple of benches, using them as stretchers, in which they conveyed the unconscious men to the clubhouse, which they reached just as the ambulance arrived.
Elberfeld was the first to revive, and after being treated for some lacerations of the head and face, as well as shock, he was taken to a nearby hotel, from which he sent a message to his friends in Tennessee, stating that he was not seriously hurt.
It was feared that Fultz had sustained a broken jaw and nose, and probably a fracture of the skull, and he was taken to the Washington Heights Hospital.
At the hospital last night the resident surgeon announced that Fultz would recover. His condition was considerably improved and his skull is not fractured. Word from Elberfeld's quarters was to the effect that he was recovering rapidly. Manager Griffith and other members of the local club said last night that they did not believe either man would be able to play again this season, which will end next Saturday in Boston.
The accident recalls the collision between Hub Collins and Tom Burns of the Brooklyns many years ago, from the effects of which Collins died.
Serious Accident Proves Climax for Long Season of Hard Luck or Yankees.
BOTH TAKEN TO HOSPITAL.
Fears That Center Fielder Has Been Fatally Injured Prove Unfounded. They Will Recover.
During the American League baseball season, which is almost completed, Manager Clark Griffith has had many of his men disabled from several causes, but yesterday he lost the services of Norman Elberfeld and David Fultz for the remainder of the season.
These two players were in their respective positions of shortstop and centerfleld in the first game of a double-header with Cleveland. In the fourth inning Bradley sent a fly to left center, and Elberfeld, running backward, tried to get the ball. In the meantime Fultz was on a dead run in from his position, and each was so intent on his work that neither saw the other until their heads crashed together. Both fell prone to the ground and lay as if dead.
The game was stopped immediately and the players of both teams ran to where the injured men were lying. Several policemen ran to render assistance and a hurry call was turned in for an ambulance. Three physicians jumped down from the grand stand and gave what aid they could to the prostrate men. Two of the big Cleveland players grabbed a barrel of ice water and carried it across the diamond. Then they got a couple of benches, using them as stretchers, in which they conveyed the unconscious men to the clubhouse, which they reached just as the ambulance arrived.
Elberfeld was the first to revive, and after being treated for some lacerations of the head and face, as well as shock, he was taken to a nearby hotel, from which he sent a message to his friends in Tennessee, stating that he was not seriously hurt.
It was feared that Fultz had sustained a broken jaw and nose, and probably a fracture of the skull, and he was taken to the Washington Heights Hospital.
At the hospital last night the resident surgeon announced that Fultz would recover. His condition was considerably improved and his skull is not fractured. Word from Elberfeld's quarters was to the effect that he was recovering rapidly. Manager Griffith and other members of the local club said last night that they did not believe either man would be able to play again this season, which will end next Saturday in Boston.
The accident recalls the collision between Hub Collins and Tom Burns of the Brooklyns many years ago, from the effects of which Collins died.
