September 8, 1923 Chattanooga Daily Times (Chattanooga, Tennessee) - Nan Elberfeld Bio
NAN ELBERFELD A STUDENT AT U. C.
Famous Daughter of Famous Manager Coming Home.
Star Swimmer and Diver, Expert Life Saver, Horsewoman, Auto driver.
University of Chattanooga will have as a guest through the coming term a most distinguished athlete, of an equally distinguished athletic family. The new student will be Miss Nan Elberfeld,
daughter of "Kid" Elberfeld, famous manager of the Little Rock Travelers, once manager of the Lookouts, for twenty years a major league star long ago, and up to his removal to Little Rock, five years ago, a long-time resident of Walden's ridge.
Although in a different style of sport from that in which her father has shone for thirty years, Miss Nan is running dad a close race for fame in athletics. She is at present state examiner for
the Little Rock life saving department of the Red Cross, having earned that honor by a series of remarkable aquatic achievements. Just what Miss Nan has been able to crowd into her young life so far is well told in the following from the Arkansas Gazette, of Little Rock :
"Nan Elberfeld is the eldest of "Kid" Elberfeld's five daughters----"Kid" Elberfeld, manager of the Little Rock Travelers for the last five years. Each of his six children is interested in sports of all. kinds and especially in swimming, tennis playing and hiking. "Nan has been swimming since she was a child. She is the only girl who made the 50-foot dive at Lake Worth, Tex.
"When she was at Little Rock High school in 1922, she won the girl tennis championship for the Girl Reserves and was the chief member of their winning swimming team. As a result of her sporting activities and ability, she was sent as delegate to Hollister, Mo., to the Girl Reserves' conference.
"She graduated from Little Rock Senior High school in February, 1922, and then took a post-graduate course. Last winter she spent in Florida on a tour with her family. All winter they swam and played games on the beach. This fall she will enter Chattanooga University.
"Nan is 20 years old and is the instructor of Little Rock's Woman's Life Saving corps for this year. Last summer was the first time she had an opportunity to enter such a class. She was elected president because of her unusual swimming attainment. She is a diver as well as a swimmer and does all sorts of fancy dives.
"A little over a year ago she hiked to Lonoke with her sisters in six hours. This was a distance of twenty-four miles, making an average of four miles per hour.
"Nan is an accomplished horsewoman She rode over 400 miles from Mississippi with Jack (the only boy and eldest of the Elberfeld children) in six days. The roads were bad and it was hard going
"She drives the 'Big 6' Studebaker and the Ford, and on the Florida trip last winter she drove nearly all of the way to Miami.
"Nan is the athletic type of girl who does not care much for fuss and pretention. She likes a good time that is wholesome and simple.
Famous Daughter of Famous Manager Coming Home.
Star Swimmer and Diver, Expert Life Saver, Horsewoman, Auto driver.
University of Chattanooga will have as a guest through the coming term a most distinguished athlete, of an equally distinguished athletic family. The new student will be Miss Nan Elberfeld,
daughter of "Kid" Elberfeld, famous manager of the Little Rock Travelers, once manager of the Lookouts, for twenty years a major league star long ago, and up to his removal to Little Rock, five years ago, a long-time resident of Walden's ridge.
Although in a different style of sport from that in which her father has shone for thirty years, Miss Nan is running dad a close race for fame in athletics. She is at present state examiner for
the Little Rock life saving department of the Red Cross, having earned that honor by a series of remarkable aquatic achievements. Just what Miss Nan has been able to crowd into her young life so far is well told in the following from the Arkansas Gazette, of Little Rock :
"Nan Elberfeld is the eldest of "Kid" Elberfeld's five daughters----"Kid" Elberfeld, manager of the Little Rock Travelers for the last five years. Each of his six children is interested in sports of all. kinds and especially in swimming, tennis playing and hiking. "Nan has been swimming since she was a child. She is the only girl who made the 50-foot dive at Lake Worth, Tex.
"When she was at Little Rock High school in 1922, she won the girl tennis championship for the Girl Reserves and was the chief member of their winning swimming team. As a result of her sporting activities and ability, she was sent as delegate to Hollister, Mo., to the Girl Reserves' conference.
"She graduated from Little Rock Senior High school in February, 1922, and then took a post-graduate course. Last winter she spent in Florida on a tour with her family. All winter they swam and played games on the beach. This fall she will enter Chattanooga University.
"Nan is 20 years old and is the instructor of Little Rock's Woman's Life Saving corps for this year. Last summer was the first time she had an opportunity to enter such a class. She was elected president because of her unusual swimming attainment. She is a diver as well as a swimmer and does all sorts of fancy dives.
"A little over a year ago she hiked to Lonoke with her sisters in six hours. This was a distance of twenty-four miles, making an average of four miles per hour.
"Nan is an accomplished horsewoman She rode over 400 miles from Mississippi with Jack (the only boy and eldest of the Elberfeld children) in six days. The roads were bad and it was hard going
"She drives the 'Big 6' Studebaker and the Ford, and on the Florida trip last winter she drove nearly all of the way to Miami.
"Nan is the athletic type of girl who does not care much for fuss and pretention. She likes a good time that is wholesome and simple.
