South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-04-11
To DECIDE FATE
Of TAN AND BLUE
NINE TOMORROW
Four Hundred Booster Tickets
Must be SOId-TO Discuss
Proposition at
Assembly.

The fate OF the high school base
ball team will be decided at the
weekly assembly TO be held We'd
nesday morning
At present the financial position
OF the so-caIled athletic associa-
ton" is as low as possible and the
only means OF replenishing il. &C
cording 10 an announcement made
BY Prin. r J. Sims, will be by the
ale OF 400 booster or season tickets.
{. A Metzler. coach and manager
of the high school nine. has offered
these tickets, with admission TO six
or eight games. for % cents. About
20 or 80 tickets. and those mostly
by those students who expect 10
make the nine, have been bought.
1t is a disgrace for school Of
South Bends size and reputation 70
be without a team, even though il
should take some resl work on. the
part of the students TO finance one.
said Metzler last night. Il have
never witnessed the same spirit in
any school where the student body
will take in the football, basket ball
games and occasionally witness a
track meet. but never turn out or
support a baseball nine in any way.
Schedule Making Hard.
About three weeks ago the an
nouncement was made that these
400 tickets would have to be sold
before baseball would be assured
Coach Metzler felt confident that the
tickets would be readily grabbed up
and that he should go ahead with
his schedule. He scheduled two
games with Elkhart two with Lake
Forest, two with Mishawaka and two
with East Chicago. Various Difficult
ties have arisen over the schedule
until it is feared that if Wednesday
mornings undertaking is a success.
the slate rounded out by Metzler
will hardly contain the name OF any
school which ranks as a rival of the
locals.
According to some Of the faculty
at the high school, it seems that the
trouble lies in the fact that the
State High School Indiana Athletic
association is much stronger for the
southern part OF the state, and that
it is controlled mostly by men promi-
nent in southern Indiana school
circles, rather than in the northern
half. There is. however, an athletic
association in this section called the
Northern Indiana Athletic associa-
ton
Separate Of the state body, this
northern section is ruled by men
from only the northern schools. r.
l. Kizer. assistant principal Of the
high school and controller OF the
board Of control, is treasurer of the
Northern Indiana Athletic associa-
ton. In this body Elkhart. Goshen.
Gary. Hammond, Mishawaka and
South Bend form the principal cities
represented. OF these only one or
two will have teams this spring.
Money Matters Bother.
The two games with Elkhart have
been dropped because OF the death
Of a student Of the Elkhart school.
caused by an injury inflicted during
track practice. Mishawaka, because
OF financial difficulty. also cancelled
their two scheduled games.
In Gary both the mines Of Emer-
son and Froebel schools are also
suffering the same fate as that which
befell Mishawaka's nine, so Metzler
has given up scheduling any con-
tests with them. Only one game is
certain and that with Culver Mill
tary academy on April % at the
army school. Two games are pend
ing with Benton Harbor, one for
this city on April %. the other there
on MAY s There is also posi-
bility OF arranging a bill with East
Chicago. Lake Forest was dropped
from the slate because they wanted
two games one here this year and
one next year at Lake Forest