September 11, 1927 - The Independent Record - Helena, MT - Elberfeld Family
This article and these pictures appeared in several newspapers around this time.
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Chattanooga, Tenn.—(AP)—Norman A. Elberfeld, former major league baseball star and once manager of the New York Yankees, is rearing a new brood of athletics.
The one-time "Tobasco Kid" of the diamond has become an authority on bringing up the modern girl, and he is guiding five daughters to fame in the world of sport.
"Feed 'em and let 'em play," is his recipe.
"While I lived the life of a baseball star the diamond was my schoolroom," he explains. "I learned there some mighty valuable lessons which have been of a lot of benefit to me in rearing my five girls. I have trained them all to proficiency in virtually every American outdoor sport."
Early in his baseball career Elberfeld bought an apple orchard on Signal Mountain, near Chattanooga, and in these surroundings the girls have become expert swimmers, basketball players, boxers and horsewomen. Now they are out winning championships.
Ruth, 17 years old and the youngest, has won the diving title and the 50-yard free style swim in the Middle State junior national swimming meet at Indianapolis.
Almost simultaneously Dorothy, the next youngest, was winning the cup for the highest individual honors of the South Atlantic swimming championships in Charlotte, N. C. She won the diving contest and the 100- yard and 440 yard free -style swims, and she was third in the back stroke race.
Then Dorothy and Ruth entered the Southeastern A. A. U. tank meet in Mobile, Ala. Ruth finished first and Dorothy third in the 100-yard breast stroke race. Ruth was second in the 100-yard back stroke event, and in fancy diving Dorothy won first honors and Ruth was runner-up.
Nan, 23, the eldest of the five, held the women's singles tennis championship of Arkansas in 1922 and 1923, and lost to her sister, Miriam, in 1924. Miriam won the women's tennis championship of southern Alabama in 1925, and she and Nan captured the doubles.
Edith, fifth of the quintet shared honors with Nan, Miriam, Dorothy and Ruth last season on an all-sister basketball team.
The Elberfeld home is almost clutterred with trophies, but these tokens represent only one side of the family
life, for all the girls have made excellent scholarship records, and all are capable dancers.
"It has always been the Kid's idea," comments Mrs. Elberfeld, mother of the quintet and herself an accomplished swimmer, "that if the girls had strong bodies they would make good students."
Elberfeld is spending his first year in retirement from baseball after many, years as a player and manager.
NOTE: Same as February 8. 1928 - The Charleroi Mail PA
Chattanooga, Tenn.—(AP)—Norman A. Elberfeld, former major league baseball star and once manager of the New York Yankees, is rearing a new brood of athletics.
The one-time "Tobasco Kid" of the diamond has become an authority on bringing up the modern girl, and he is guiding five daughters to fame in the world of sport.
"Feed 'em and let 'em play," is his recipe.
"While I lived the life of a baseball star the diamond was my schoolroom," he explains. "I learned there some mighty valuable lessons which have been of a lot of benefit to me in rearing my five girls. I have trained them all to proficiency in virtually every American outdoor sport."
Early in his baseball career Elberfeld bought an apple orchard on Signal Mountain, near Chattanooga, and in these surroundings the girls have become expert swimmers, basketball players, boxers and horsewomen. Now they are out winning championships.
Ruth, 17 years old and the youngest, has won the diving title and the 50-yard free style swim in the Middle State junior national swimming meet at Indianapolis.
Almost simultaneously Dorothy, the next youngest, was winning the cup for the highest individual honors of the South Atlantic swimming championships in Charlotte, N. C. She won the diving contest and the 100- yard and 440 yard free -style swims, and she was third in the back stroke race.
Then Dorothy and Ruth entered the Southeastern A. A. U. tank meet in Mobile, Ala. Ruth finished first and Dorothy third in the 100-yard breast stroke race. Ruth was second in the 100-yard back stroke event, and in fancy diving Dorothy won first honors and Ruth was runner-up.
Nan, 23, the eldest of the five, held the women's singles tennis championship of Arkansas in 1922 and 1923, and lost to her sister, Miriam, in 1924. Miriam won the women's tennis championship of southern Alabama in 1925, and she and Nan captured the doubles.
Edith, fifth of the quintet shared honors with Nan, Miriam, Dorothy and Ruth last season on an all-sister basketball team.
The Elberfeld home is almost clutterred with trophies, but these tokens represent only one side of the family
life, for all the girls have made excellent scholarship records, and all are capable dancers.
"It has always been the Kid's idea," comments Mrs. Elberfeld, mother of the quintet and herself an accomplished swimmer, "that if the girls had strong bodies they would make good students."
Elberfeld is spending his first year in retirement from baseball after many, years as a player and manager.
NOTE: Same as February 8. 1928 - The Charleroi Mail PA
