Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-29
KID ELBERFELD
PROVES To Be
SHARP TRADER
Club Cost Little Money but 1t Is
Making Better Fight for Rag
Than Some Which Cost More.

CHATTANOOGA, June zs.-As an
humble. unlettered guy once re-
marked, its a long lane that amt
got no turn in IT,"
For three years Chattanooga mag
mates have rolled out money into the
strong boxes of other magnates in
great sickening cloudbursts.
The turn OF the lane has come this
year.
Kid Elberfeid has tried out a world
or ball players. Those who are &C
Quainted with the facts in each deal
might think from the number that
the Chattanooga club had spent a
small fortune for playing material.
Not that the club hasn't been willing,
and 1t has spent more than the aver
age, but the player business has been
well manipulated. Following is a list
Of the players inherited" by the Kid
and those whom he has purchased or
signed for trial:
Inherited.
Pitchers-More. ChappeIle, Cove
leskie, Ware, Allen, Grover.
Catchers-Hannah, Noyes. Giddo.
First Baseman-Coyle.
Second Baseman-Jordan.
Outfielders Tutweiler, Cruise
Gray Wasem.
Total-Thirteen
Some bunch to inherit, wasn't It?
Purchased or Signed.
Pitchers-Stark, Troy, Golden. Mer-
chant. Grimes, Howell. Sommers, Dy-
CERT.
catchers-street. Moran, Breaux.
Fitzgerald.
Second Baseman-F1ick.
Third Basemen-Gillespie Harbi-
son, Graft.
Outfielders-King, Massey. Flston.
Johnson, Williams, Thrasher. Betch-
err.
Total-Twenty-t hreee.
Omitting Tutweiler, Gray. Wasem
and Allen, who were released in the
winter, the Kid has tried 80 men IN
all for the Chattanooga team. Tween
ty-three Of these were purchased
signed or traded for. That sounds
like a whole lot Of money spent
doesn't it? But It's not so.
G TARK cost the draft price from a
- Class D League and was sold for
not more than $3.50 under that, he Is
still Chattanooga property. Troy cost
nothing, going back to Detroit. Same
for Golden, to St Louis Nationals.
Merchant cost what Stark did and
was similarly disposed Of to Evans
Vile. Grimes was sent down by De-
troit, as was Howell. who was picked
up from the college diamonds by a
Detroit scout. Dygert was a free
agent.
The pitching staff cost less than
$4,000. And More brought $1,000,
ChappeIle $500, Ware $3.50, while Gro
yer Is still the property of the club.
That doesn't sound like a big invest
ment, does it?
We are not possessed of the figures
n the purchase of Street, Elston and
Gillespie from Providence; inasmuch
as they all made good the money
wasn't wasted and it was no fault of
managerial Judgment that Gillespie
was ''beaned" out of the league.
OF the other catchers tried out,
Giddo still belongs TO the club. Moran
was picked up as a free agent. BreauX
cost $500 and Fitzgerald a reasona Bile
amount from Providence. Hannah
brought a nominal sum from Spo-
kane.
CARL FLICK set the club back
Y $1,000. We hardly think therell
be the slightest whisper that this
was money wasted. Graft will go
back to the Browns this fall, costing
little more than rent"
The club came near making one
disastrous blunder in paying out
$1,000 for HARRISON, but they more
than atoned for it when they traded
HARRISON for Johnson.
In the outfield. King virtually came
20 the club for Eddie Noyes and a
small amount, said to be about $3.50
Moves was traded to Nashville for
Storch, Storch and cash to Houston
for Forsythe and the latter to To-
peka for King Elston was bought in
the big Three" deal from Provi-
dence. williams was bought from:
Buffalo for a small amount, said to
be $3.50. which was certainly money
we'll spent. Both Betcher and Thrash
er came on trial and neither cost the
club anything at all.
From all this dickering, and in spite
of the fact that men touted to be
stars. Kid Elberfeld has developed
ball club that is bidding for the
Southern League pennant, and at
cost at least 25 per cent less than
that of the 1910, 1911 or 1912 aggre-